So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac,
Exodus 21:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If she does not please her master, who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt unfairly with her. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If she does not please her master who has not espoused her to himself, he shall let her be redeemed. To sell her to a foreign people he shall have no power, for he has dealt faithlessly with her. American Standard Version (1901) If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. Common English Bible If she doesn’t please her master who chose her for himself, then her master must let her be bought back by her family. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people since he has treated her unfairly. Catholic Public Domain Version If she displeases the eyes of her lord, to whom she had been delivered, he shall dismiss her. But he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, even if he despises her. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her. |
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac,
My companions are treacherous like a torrent bed, like swollen streams that pass away,
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
Then Moses said, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his officials, and from his people; only do not let Pharaoh again deal falsely by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”
And I will make the land desolate because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God.
Has anyone become engaged to a woman but not yet married her? He should go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another marry her.’
But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among your kin or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she pleases me.”
if, I say, you have acted in good faith and honor with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you,
Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom?”
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord,