Exodus 21:9

And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.

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In The King James Version

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

In Context

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.

10If he takes him another [wife], her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

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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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