Old TestamentExodus 21·God's Laws on Slavery and Selling Daughters
Exodus 21:2–11

God's Laws on Slavery and Selling Daughters

God commands laws explicitly permitting Hebrew slavery — including the right of a master to keep a slave's wife and children, and a father's right to sell his own daughter into servitude — presented as divine ordinances from Sinai.

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God's Laws on Slavery and Selling Daughters

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“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

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