KJV King James Version
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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Exodus 21:7
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
WEB World English Bible
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
ASV American Standard Version
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;
Surrounding context — Exodus 21
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, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.Exodus 21:2-3If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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