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Hebrew Servants

Exodus 21:7

In 11 translations

BSB
And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
KJV
¶ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
WEB
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
ASV
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
LSV
And when a man sells his daughter for a handmaid, she does not go out according to the going out of the menservants;
YLT
'And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;
DBY
And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.
DRC
If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
GNV
Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shall not goe out as the men seruantes doe.
JPS
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
LXXE
And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maid-servants depart.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְכִֽי־יִמְכֹּ֥ר אִ֛ישׁ אֶת־בִּתּ֖וֹ לְאָמָ֑ה לֹ֥א תֵצֵ֖א כְּצֵ֥את הָעֲבָדִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δέ τις ἀποδῶται τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα οἰκέτιν, οὐκ ἀπελεύσεται, ὥσπερ ἀποτρέχουσιν αἱ δοῦλαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Nehemiah 5:5We 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 redeem them because our…
  • Exodus 21:2–3If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything. If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave…

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