Likewise if a man [a]sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall [b]he cause to buy her: he shall have no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he [c]despised her.

But if he hath betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her [d]according to the custom of the daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:7 Constrained either by poverty, or else to the intent that the master should marry her.
  2. Exodus 21:8 By giving another money to buy her of him.
  3. Exodus 21:8 Or, deflowered her.
  4. Exodus 21:9 That is, he shall give his dowry.

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