The laws of the servant in provide an application of the tenth of the Thirteen Rules for interpreting the Torah in the Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael that many Jews read as part of the readings before the Pesukei d'Zimrah prayer service. The tenth rule provides that an item included in a generalization that is then singled out to discuss something of a kind different from the generalization is singled out to be more lenient and more stringent. describes the laws of the Jewish indentured servant, who goes free after six years. Then turns to the female Jewish indentured servant, who one might have thought was included in the generalization about Jewish indentured servants. Instead, says that her avenues to freedom are not as those of her male counterpart. Rather, the Torah applies a more lenient rule to the female Jewish indentured servant, as she may go free before six years have passed — upon the onset of puberty or the death of her master. And also applies a more stringent rule to the female Jewish indentured servant, as she may be betrothed against her will to the master or his son.