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If she doesn`t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
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Protection for the Vulnerable
Commentators explain this law protected a Hebrew girl sold with the expectation of marriage. If the master changed his mind and chose not to marry her, he could not simply sell her to another person. Because he had "dealt deceitfully" by breaking the implicit marriage contract, he was obligated to allow her family to redeem her. This law limited the master's power and upheld a degree of justice for the girl.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
Who hath betrothed her to himself. —The reading is to be preferred which gives the opposite sense—“who hath not
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If she please not her master "Be evil in the eyes of her master" F16 ; and he has no liking of her, and l…
Presbyterian
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,…
