Exodus 21:7

Exodus chapter 21 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And 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 · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And 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.