Exodus 21:8

New American Bible - revised edition

But if she displeases her master, who had designated her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

Cross References

Genesis 28:8

Esau realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac,

Job 6:15

My companions are undependable as a wadi, as watercourses that run dry in the wadies;

Exodus 21:7

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go free as male slaves do.

Exodus 21:9

If he designates her for his son, he shall treat her according to the ordinance for daughters.

Ezekiel 15:8

Yes, I will make the land desolate, because they are so unfaithful— oracle of the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 20:7

Is there anyone who has betrothed a woman and not yet married her? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another marry her.”

Judges 14:3

His father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among your kinsfolk or among all your people, that you must go and take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson answered his father, “Get her for me, for she is the one I want.”

Judges 9:19

if, then, you have acted in good faith and integrity toward Jerubbaal and his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech and may he in turn rejoice in you!

1 Samuel 18:8

Saul was very angry and resentful of the song, for he thought: “They give David tens of thousands, but only thousands to me. All that remains for him is the kingship.”

1 Samuel 8:6

Samuel was displeased when they said, “Give us a king to rule us.” But he prayed to the Lord.