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Negative commandment 261 of 365

Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person

Maimonides

Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person, as it is said, “…. he shall have no power to sell her, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her” (Ex. 21:8).

Exodus 21:8

KJV
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.
ASV
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.
WEB
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.
JPS
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.