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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
261 - SELLING A HEBREW BONDMAID
Exodus 21:8 -- “If she does not please her master, who has betrothed 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.”
A Hebrew bondmaid may not be sold to anybody whatever, Israelite or heathen; and if she regains her freedom, the prohibition applies to her father as it formerly did to her owner.*
* Mishneh Torah, Kinyan, Hilchoth Abadim IV, 10, Commentaries