Exodus 21:7
Exodus chapter 21 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
Context
v.6then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
v.7This passage
v.8If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- Nehemiah 5:5
Yet 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 into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.