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Perhaps a man may sell his daughter to someone as a slave. She is not free to leave her master after six years, as the male slaves are. Her master has chosen her for himself. If she does not make her master happy, he must let her family buy her back from him. He cannot sell her to a foreign person. He has not done what he promised to her.[a] If the master had chosen the girl to marry his son, he must take care of her like his own daughter.

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  1. 21:8 The master is buying the female slave to take care of her. Perhaps he has promised to marry her. Her own family are too poor to take care of her themselves.