then his master shall bring him to (A)God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

“When a man (B)sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her[a] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:8 Or so that he has not designated her

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