Exodus 21:7 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 21:7

And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

A man might, in accordance with existing custom, sell his daughter to another man with a view to her becoming an inferior wife, or concubine. In this case, she was not “to go out,” like the bondman; that is, she was not to be dismissed at the end of the sixth year. But women who were bound in any other way, would appear to have been under the same conditions as bondmen. See Deu 15:17.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכִֽי־	ve.khi-	and if	H3588 →
יִמְכֹּ֥ר	yim.Kor	he will sell	H4376 →
אִ֛ישׁ	'ish	a man	H376 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בִּתּ֖וֹ	bi.To	daughter his	H1323 →
לְאָמָ֑ה	le.'a.Mah	to a female slave	H519 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תֵצֵ֖א	te.Tze'	she will go out	H3318 →
כְּצֵ֥את	ke.Tzet	when go out	H3318 →
הָעֲבָדִֽים׃	ha.'a.va.Dim	the [male] slaves	H5650 →

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Nehemiah 5:5
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to…
leads to
- 2 Kings 4:1
  Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor…
- Leviticus 25:39–43
  If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
- Genesis 37:27
  Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
- Isaiah 58:7
  Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own…
- Exodus 21:1–11
  “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

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