Exodus 21:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 28:8 : 8 It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,
  • Exod 8:29 : 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.
  • Deut 20:7 : 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.
  • Deut 21:11-14 : 11 If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife; 12 Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut; 13 And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife. 14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.
  • Judg 9:19 : 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;
  • Judg 14:3 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 18:8 : 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?
  • Job 6:15 : 15 My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
  • Mal 2:11-15 : 11 Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god. 12 The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies. 13 And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand. 14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word. 15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:2-7
    6 verses
    85%

    2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

    3 If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

    4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

    5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

    6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    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.

  • Exod 21:9-11
    3 verses
    84%

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

    10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

    11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

  • Deut 21:11-15
    5 verses
    82%

    11 If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

    12 Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut;

    13 And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

    14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

    15 If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • Exod 22:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

    16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

    17 If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

  • Lev 19:20
    74%

    20 If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Deut 22:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19 They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.

    20 But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

    21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Deut 22:14
    72%

    14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Num 30:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.

    6 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

  • Deut 22:27-29
    3 verses
    71%

    27 For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

    28 If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

    29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

  • Num 30:8
    71%

    8 If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

    2 And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

    3 And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

  • Lev 25:51-52
    2 verses
    70%

    51 If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

    52 And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

  • Deut 22:23
    70%

    23 If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

  • Lev 27:20
    70%

    20 But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

  • Deut 15:12
    70%

    12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

  • Lev 25:26-28
    3 verses
    70%

    26 And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

    27 Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

    28 But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

  • Deut 25:8
    70%

    8 Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;

  • Lev 25:48
    70%

    48 After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

  • Num 30:12
    69%

    12 And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

  • Deut 15:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

    17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

  • Deut 22:16
    69%

    16 And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;

  • Lev 25:54
    69%

    54 And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

  • Num 30:10
    69%

    10 But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.

  • Deut 23:15
    69%

    15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: