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A Law of Protection
While the idea of selling a daughter is shocking, commentators explain this law was not an endorsement but a regulation of a harsh ancient custom. Its purpose was to protect the young woman from exploitation, ensuring she was treated as a potential wife with specific rights, not just as property. If the master did not marry her or his son, he was obligated to arrange for her redemption or release her.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 21:7
18th Century
Theologian
A man might, in accordance with existing custom, sell his daughter to another man, intending for her to become an inferior wife or concubine. In th…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 21:7
19th Century
Bishop
If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant. —The right of selling their children into slavery was regarded in ancient…
John Calvin
On Exodus 21:7
16th Century
Theologian
From this passage, as well as other similar ones, it plainly appears how many vices were necessarily tolerated among this people. It was entirely a…
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John Gill
On Exodus 21:7
17th Century
Pastor
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant
That is, if an Israelite, as the Targum of Jonathan, sells his li…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 21:1–11
17th Century
Minister
The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us,…