Exodus 21:7 "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

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

New American Standard Bible
"If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

King James Bible
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.

International Standard Version
"When a man sells his daughter as a servant, she won't go out as the male servants do.

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.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.

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;

Cross References

Exodus 21:2
If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Exodus 21:3
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:6
Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

Exodus 21:8
If she please not her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her to a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, see, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

21:1-11 The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ex 21:7-36. Laws for Maidservants.

7-11. if a man sell his daughter—Hebrew girls might be redeemed for a reasonable sum. But in the event of her parents or friends being unable to pay the redemption money, her owner was not at liberty to sell her elsewhere. Should she have been betrothed to him or his son, and either change their minds, a maintenance must be provided for her suitable to her condition as his intended wife, or her freedom instantly granted.