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HANDMAID, HANDMAIDEN*

Female servants. They were familiar members among many households in biblical days. The handmaid cared for the women and children of a family and served as the woman’s personal attendant. She enjoyed the protection of the law (Lv 25:6; Dt 5:14; 15:12-15), and as a free wife’s maid, sometimes became a concubine where there was a childless marriage (Gn 30:3).

Show passage in OET: LEV 25:6

OET-RV LEV 25:6

6 However, during the rest year, the land will provide food for you and your servants, and for your hired workers and the foreigners who are living among you,

OET-LV LEV 25:6

6 And_it _will _belong the _sabbath _of the_earth/land to/for_you(pl) for_food to/for_yourself(m) and_to_your_male_of_slave and_to_your _female _of_slave and_to_your _hired _of_labourer and_to_your _resident _of_alien[s] who_are_sojourning with_you.

Show passage in OET: DEU 5:14

OET-RV DEU 5:14

14 but the seventh day is a rest day dedicated to your god Yahweh. Don’t do any work on that day: not you or your children or your slaves, or using any of your cattle, nor any foreigner living with you—your slaves can rest like you.

OET-LV DEU 5:14

14 And_the_day _of the_seventh is_a _sabbath to/for_YHWH god _of_your not you _must _do any _of work you and_son _of_your and_daughter _of_your and_your_male_of_servant and_your _female _of_servant and_ox _of_your and_donkey _of_your and_all livestock _of_your and_sojourner _of_your who is_in_gates _of_your so _that servant _of_your_male and_your _female _of_servant he _may _rest like_you.

Show passage in OET: DEU 15:12–15

OET-RV DEU 15:12

12 If a fellow Israeli is sold to you and serves you for six years, then you must free them in the seventh year.

OET-RV DEU 15:13

13 But when you free them, don’t send them off empty-handed

OET-RV DEU 15:14

14 but instead, give to them generously from your flock and from your barn and from your wine. In whatever ways your god Yahweh has blessed you, you should give to them.

OET-RV DEU 15:15

15 Always remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim (Egypt) and your god Yahweh redeemed you out of there, so that’s why I’m commanding you to do that.

OET-LV DEU 15:12

12 If/because he _will _sell _himself to/for_yourself(m) your(ms)_brother/kindred (the)_Hebrew_masc or (the)_Hebrew_fem and_he_will _serve _you six years and_in_year (the)_seventh you_will _let _him _go a _free_person from_with_you.

OET-LV DEU 15:13

13 And_because/when you_will _let _him _go a _free_person from_with_you not you_will _let _him _go empty.

OET-LV DEU 15:14

14 Generously _(provide) you _will _provide to_him/it from_flock _of_your and_from_your _threshing _of_floor and_from_winepress _of_your that_which he_has _blessed _you YHWH god _of_your you _will _give to_him/it.

OET-LV DEU 15:15

15 And_you _will _remember if/because _that a _slave you _were in_land of _Miʦrayim/(Egypt) and_he_redeemed _you YHWH god _of_your therefore yes/correct/thus/so I am_commanding _of_you DOM the_matter the_this the_day.

Show passage in OET: GEN 30:3

OET-RV GEN 30:3

3 Rahel answered, “Listen, here’s my slave Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she’ll have children on my behalf and I’ll also be able to have a family through her.”

OET-LV GEN 30:3

3 And_she/it _said HERE maidservant _of_my Bilhāh go to_her/it so_that _she _may _bear _children on knees _of_my and_ also I _so _that _I _may _be _built _up from_her.

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