A moment in scripture
Exodus 21:9
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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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The surrounding passage
- Exodus 21:7
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
- Exodus 21:8
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.
- Exodus 21:10
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- Exodus 21:11
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.