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


In Context

4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

5 "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'

6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

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

8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

Exodus 21:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:7If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7And if a man shall sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not depart as the men-servants do.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7|If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7'And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.