Regarding female servants, if a master bought a girl but she did not please him, what was he forbidden from doing?
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Correct answer: Selling her to a foreign people
Exodus 21:8 protects female servants. If she does not please the master who selected her, he must let her be redeemed; he has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has broken faith with her.
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