Exodus 21:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the [a]Judges, and set him to the [b]door, or to the post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him [c]forever.
7 Likewise if a man [d]sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall [e]he cause to buy her: he shall have no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he [f]despised her.
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- Exodus 21:6 Hebrew, gods.
- Exodus 21:6 Where the judges sat.
- Exodus 21:6 That is, to the year of Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year.
- Exodus 21:7 Constrained either by poverty, or else to the intent that the master should marry her.
- Exodus 21:8 By giving another money to buy her of him.
- Exodus 21:8 Or, deflowered her.
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