Exodus 21:7

If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

6His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

8If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: 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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