Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 21:7

7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant , she shall not go out as the menservants do .

(i. e.) An Hebrew, as appears by the opposition of one of a strange nation, ver. 8.

Which was allowed in case of extreme necessity, because of the hardness of their hearts.

But upon better terms, as being one of the weaker and more helpless Sex. Quest. How doth this agree with Deut. 15. 17. also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise? Answ. 1. Distinguish persons. She Deut. 15. was sold by her self and that to meer servitude: this here was sold by her father, not onely for service, but in order to her marriage, as the following verses sufficiently imply. 2. Distinguish things. The likeness between men-servants and maidservants was onely in the rites used in case she consented to perpetual servitude: the difference here is in case they both were made free in which case she had some priviledges, which here follow.