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Exodus 21:7
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5 aBut if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’  
6 then his master shall bring him to the ajudges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.  
7 “And if a man asells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.  
8 If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.
10 If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, aand her marriage rights.  
11 And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

The Law Concerning Violence

12 a“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.  
13 However, aif he did not lie in wait, but God bdelivered him into his hand, then cI will appoint for you a place where he may flee.  
Verse Comparison: Exodus 21:7

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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.

Amplified® Bible
If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant {or} bondwoman, she shall not go out [in six years] as menservants do.

Contemporary English Version
A young woman who was sold by her father doesn't gain her freedom in the same way that a man does.

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

Good News Bible
"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are.

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

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

New King James Version
“And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
" If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she does not have freedom as the male slaves do.

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

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;


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