Exodus 21:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

Cross References

Genesis 28:8

It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,

Job 6:15

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

Exodus 21:7

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

Exodus 21:9

And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

Exodus 8:29

And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.

Ezekiel 15:8

And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 20:7

Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

Judges 14:3

Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.

Judges 9:19

If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you;

1 Samuel 18:8

And Saul was very angry and this saying was unpleasing to him; and he said, They have given David credit for tens of thousands, and to me for only thousands: what more is there for him but the kingdom?

1 Samuel 8:6

But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.