If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. The female servant who becomes the son's wife receives the full rights of a daughter in the household — not secondary status, not the position of servant, but family member. The law upgrades her status rather than confirming her vulnerability. The protection of women entering marriage through economic arrangements is comprehensive in this verse: she is to be treated as a daughter, with all the dignity and provision that implies. Galatians 4:7 says you are no longer a slave but a child of God — the elevation from servant to family member in Exodus 21:9 is a legal enactment of the principle the gospel applies to all who are in Christ.

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