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The Book of Exodus, Chapter 21, Verse 8

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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
King James Version
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
American Standard Version
If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
New English Translation
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.
World English Bible
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, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
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And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
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He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
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And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: