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Exodus 21:7-16 New English Translation (NET)

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

8. If 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.

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

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

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

12. “Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

13. But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

14. But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

15. “Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

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

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