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Exodus 21:7
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"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
"‘And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out.
"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, the rules for setting her free are different from the rules for setting the male slaves free.
"If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go free [after six years] as male servants do.
"Now if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shal not goe out as the men seruantes doe.
"And if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
A young woman who was sold by her father doesn't gain her freedom in the same way that a man does.
"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to go free like the men-slaves.
And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.
"A man might decide to sell his daughter as a slave. If this happens, the rules for making her free are not the same as the rules for making the men slaves free.
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
And when a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out free as the menservants do.
"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are.
“When a man sells his daughter as a concubine, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.
And when a man sells his daughter for a slave-girl, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out.
Yf a man sell his doughter to be an handmayde, then shal she not go out as the menseruauntes.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a seruaunt, she shal not go out as the men seruauntes do.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a mayd seruant, shee shall not goe out as the men seruants doe.
And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maid-servants depart.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
If ony man sillith his douyter in to seruauntesse, sche schal not go out as handmaidis weren wont to go out;
`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;
And if a man sells his daughter to be a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
And if a man shall sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not depart as the men-servants do.
"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
"And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
"If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she is not to go free as the male servants do.
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
And when a man shall sell iris daughter to be a handmaid, she shall not go out according to the out-going of the men-servants,
If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
"When a man sells his daughter to be a handmaid, she doesn't go free after six years like the men. If she doesn't please her master, her family must buy her back; her master doesn't have the right to sell her to foreigners since he broke his word to her. If he turns her over to his son, he has to treat her like a daughter. If he marries another woman, she retains all her full rights to meals, clothing, and marital relations. If he won't do any of these three things for her, she goes free, for nothing.
"If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sell: Nehemiah 5:5
go out: Exodus 21:2, Exodus 21:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:15 - sold us Deuteronomy 21:14 - thou shalt Isaiah 50:1 - or which
Cross-References
Sarah's demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.
So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.
For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Look at what God has done!'
None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord! Your exploits are incomparable!
For you are great and do amazing things. You alone are God.
Then you will think to yourself, ‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?'"
Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen this? Can a country be brought forth in one day? Can a nation be born in a single moment? Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!
The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant,.... That is, if an Israelite, as the Targum of Jonathan, sells his little daughter, as the same Targum, and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra, one that is under age, that is not arrived to the age of twelve years and a day, and this through poverty; he not being able to support himself and his family, puts his daughter out to service, or rather sells her to be a servant:
she shall not go out as the menservants do; that are sold, before described; or rather, according to the Targum,
"as the Canaanitish servants go out, who are made free, because of a tooth, or an eye, (the loss of them,
Exodus 21:26) but in the years of release, and with the signs (of puberty), and in the jubilee, and at the death of their masters, with redemption of silver,''
so Jarchi.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A man might, in accordance with existing custom, sell his daughter to another man with a view to her becoming an inferior wife, or concubine. In this case, she was not âto go out,â like the bondman; that is, she was not to be dismissed at the end of the sixth year. But women who were bound in any other way, would appear to have been under the same conditions as bondmen. See Deuteronomy 15:17.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 21:7. If a man sell his daughter — This the Jews allowed no man to do but in extreme distress - when he had no goods, either movable or immovable left, even to the clothes on his back; and he had this permission only while she was unmarriageable. It may appear at first view strange that such a law should have been given; but let it be remembered, that this servitude could extend, at the utmost, only to six years; and that it was nearly the same as in some cases of apprenticeship among us, where the parents bind the child for seven years, and have from the master so much per week during that period.