Exodus 21:7

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“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 5:5 : 5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
  • Exod 21:2-3 : 2 Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything. 3 If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:8-11
    4 verses
    85%

    8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

    9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

    11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

  • Deut 21:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.

    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Exod 21:1-6
    6 verses
    81%

    1The Decisions“These are the decisions that you will set before them:

    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

    3If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.

    4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

    5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

    6then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

    17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).

    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

    27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

    13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

    21However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

  • Exod 21:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

    32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    73%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.

    17If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

  • Num 30:16
    72%

    16These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.

  • Deut 22:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

    10All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

    11But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.

  • Lev 19:20
    72%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    71%

    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

    54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

  • Deut 22:29
    71%

    29The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

  • Lev 25:44
    71%

    44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

  • Jer 34:14
    71%

    14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

  • Job 31:13
    70%

    13“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

  • Deut 23:15
    70%

    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

  • Deut 24:2
    70%

    2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.

  • Exod 20:10
    70%

    10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

  • Num 30:3
    69%

    3Vows Made by Single Women“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the LORD or places herself under an obligation,

  • Prov 30:23
    69%

    23under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

  • Prov 29:21
    69%

    21If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.