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Exodus 21:8

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6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.Select Exodus 21:6

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

8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.Select Exodus 21:8

9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.Select Exodus 21:9

10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.Select Exodus 21:10

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WEB

21:8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married 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.

ASV

21:8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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