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then his master shall bring him to the judges.[a] His master shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and he shall bore through his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve him for the rest of his life.

If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she may not be sent out of the household as the male servants may be. If she does not please her master who has married her, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has not kept his commitment to her.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Or God. The Hebrew word is elohim, which usually means God, but see John 10:35.