7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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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 unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The Exod. 21:1 is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following chapters, some of them relating to the religious worship of God, but most of them relating to matters between man and man. Their government being purely a Theocracy, that which in other states is to be settled by human prudence was directed among them by a divine appointment, so that the constitution of their g…
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