Exodus 21:8

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.

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  • Gen 28:8 : 8 and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
  • Exod 8:29 : 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow: only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah.
  • Deut 20:7 : 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
  • Deut 21:11-14 : 11 and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; 12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.
  • Judg 9:19 : 19 if ye then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
  • Judg 14:3 : 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto Jehovah.
  • 1 Sam 18:8 : 8 And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
  • Job 6:15 : 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
  • Mal 2:11-15 : 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god. 12 Jehovah will cut off, to the man that doeth this, him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto Jehovah of hosts. 13 And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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  • Exod 21:2-7
    6 verses
    85%

    2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

    3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4 If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

    6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

    7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

  • Exod 21:9-11
    3 verses
    84%

    9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    10 If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

    11 And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

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    11 and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

    12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

    13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

    14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

    15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

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    15 If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.

    16 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

    17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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    19 and they shall fine him a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;

    21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  • 14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Num 30:5-6
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    5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and Jehovah will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

    6 And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

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    27 for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

    28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    29 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

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    26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • 8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul: and Jehovah will forgive her.

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    71%

    1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] .

    3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Lev 25:51-52
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    51 If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

    52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

  • 23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

  • 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:

  • 12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

  • Lev 25:26-28
    3 verses
    70%

    26 And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

    27 then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

    28 But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

  • 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;

  • 48 after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;

  • 12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her.

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    16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

    17 then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. [

  • 16 and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

  • 54 And if he be not redeemed by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.

  • 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

  • 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee: