Exodus 21:8

Modern English Version

If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He has no authority to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Cross References

Genesis 28:8

Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.

Job 6:15

My brothers have acted deceitfully like a riverbed, like the streams of the riverbeds that run dry;

Exodus 21:7

If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

Exodus 21:9

If he has designated her for his son, then he shall deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

Exodus 8:29

Then Moses said, “Behold, I am leaving you, and I will plead with the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. But let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

Ezekiel 15:8

I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 20:7

What man is there who is engaged to a woman but has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

Judges 14:3

His father and mother said to him, “Are there no women among your relatives, or all of our people, that you are intending to take a wife from among the uncircumcised Philistines?” Yet Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”

Judges 9:19

So if you did show good faith and integrity in what you did with Jerub-Baal and his family today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and may he also rejoice in you.

1 Samuel 18:8

Saul became very angry, and this saying was displeasing to him. Therefore he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what remains for him to have but the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 8:6

But the thing was evil in the eyes of Samuel, because they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.