Exodus 21:9

And if he betroths her to his son, he does to her according to the right of daughters.

Literal Standard Version

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 [it is] evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he has not betrothed her, then he has let her be ransomed; he has no power to sell her to a strange people, in his dealing treacherously with her.

10If he takes another [woman] for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;

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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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