◄ Exodus 21:7 ►
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Good News Translation
"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are.

New Revised Standard Version
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

Contemporary English Version
A young woman who was sold by her father doesn't gain her freedom in the same way that a man does.

New American Bible
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go free as male slaves do.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

sell

Nehemiah 5:5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

go out

Exodus 21:2,3 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. . . .

Context
Laws for Servants
…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. 7If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.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.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Exodus 21:3
With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:6
His 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.

Exodus 21:8
If 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.

Nehemiah 5:5
And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

Exodus 21:6
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