Exodus 21:7

And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

In Context

6then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

8If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12

Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say,… Read the whole commentary →

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