Exodus 21:8

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If shee please not her master, who hath betrothed her to him selfe, then shall hee cause to buy her: hee shall haue no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he despised her.

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  • Gen 28:8 : 8 Also Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan displeased Izhak his father,
  • Exod 8:29 : 29 And Moses said, Behold, I will go out from thee, and pray vnto the Lord, that the swarmes of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his seruants, and from his people to morowe: but let Pharaoh from hencefoorth deceiue no more, in not suffering the people to sacrifice vnto the Lorde.
  • Deut 20:7 : 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.
  • Deut 21:11-14 : 11 And shalt see among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast a desire vnto her, & wouldest take her to thy wife, 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shal shaue her head, and pare her nayles, 13 And she shal put off the garment that shee was taken in, and she shal remaine in thine house, and bewaile her father & her mother a moneth long: and after that shalt thou go in vnto her, & marry her, and she shalbe thy wife. 14 And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
  • Judg 9:19 : 19 If ye then haue delt truely and purely with Ierubbaal, and with his house this day, then reioyce with you.
  • Judg 14:3 : 3 Then his father and his mother sayde vnto him, Is there neuer a wife among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, that thou must go to take a wife of the vncircumcised Philistims? And Samson sayd vnto his father, Giue mee her, for she pleaseth me wel.
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Giue vs a King to iudge vs: and Samuel prayed vnto the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 18:8 : 8 Therefore Saul was exceeding wroth, and the saying displeased him, & he sayde, They haue ascribed vnto Dauid ten thousand, & to me they haue ascribed but a thousand, & what can he haue more saue the kingdome?
  • Job 6:15 : 15 My brethre haue deceiued me as a brook, and as the rising of the riuers they passe away.
  • Mal 2:11-15 : 11 Iudah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Ierusalem: for Iudah hath defiled the holinesse of the Lorde, which hee loued, and hath maried the daughter of a strange God. 12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this: both the master and the seruaunt out of the Tabernacle of Iaacob, and him that offereth an offering vnto the Lord of hostes. 13 And this haue ye done againe, and couered the altar of the Lorde with teares, with weeping and with mourning: because the offering is no more regarded, neither receiued acceptably at your handes. 14 Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lorde hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant. 15 And did not hee make one? yet had hee abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly seede: therefore keepe your selues in your spirit, & let none trespasse against the wife of his youth.

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  • Exod 21:2-7
    6 verses
    85%

    2If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shal go out free, for nothing.

    3If he came himselfe alone, he shall goe out himselfe alone: if hee were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she hath borne him sonnes or daughters, he wife and her children shalbe her masters, but he shall goe out himselfe alone.

    5But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

    6Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, & set him to the dore, or to the poste, and his master shall bore his eare through with a nawle, and he shall serue him for euer.

    7Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shal not goe out as the men seruantes doe.

  • Exod 21:9-11
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    84%

    9But if he hath betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shal deale with her according to the custome of the daughters.

    10If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

    11And if he do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.

  • Deut 21:11-15
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    82%

    11And shalt see among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast a desire vnto her, & wouldest take her to thy wife,

    12Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shal shaue her head, and pare her nayles,

    13And she shal put off the garment that shee was taken in, and she shal remaine in thine house, and bewaile her father & her mother a moneth long: and after that shalt thou go in vnto her, & marry her, and she shalbe thy wife.

    14And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

    15If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated,

  • Exod 22:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15If the owner thereof bee by, hee shall not make it good: for if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

    16And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, hee shall endowe her, and take her to his wife.

    17If her father refuse to giue her to him, hee shal pay money, according to ye dowry of virgins.

  • Lev 19:20
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    20Whosoeuer also lyeth and medleth with a woman that is a bonde mayde, affianced to a husbande, and not redeemed, nor freedome giuen her, she shalbe scourged, but they shall not die, because she is not made free.

  • Deut 22:19-21
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    73%

    19And shall condemne him in an hundreth shekels of siluer, & giue them vnto the father of the mayde, because he hath brought vp an euill name vpon a mayde of Israel: and she shalbe his wife, and he may not put her away all his life.

    20But if this thing be true, that the mayde be not found a virgine,

    21Then shall they bring forth the mayde to the doore of her fathers house, & the men of her citie shal stone her with stones to death: for shee hath wrought follie in Israel, by playing ye whore in her fathers house: so thou shalt put euill away from among you.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14And laye slaunderous thinges vnto her charge, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayde,

  • Num 30:5-6
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    5(30:6) But if her father disalow her the same day that he heareth all her vowes and bondes, wherewith she hath bound her selfe, they shall not bee of value, and the Lorde will forgiue her, because her father disalowed her.

    6(30:7) And if she haue an husband when she voweth or pronounceth ought with her lips, wherewith she bindeth her selfe,

  • Deut 22:27-29
    3 verses
    71%

    27For he found her in the fieldes: the betrothed mayde cryed, and there was no man to succour her.

    28If a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed, and take her, and lye with her, and they be founde,

    29Then the man that lay with her, shall giue vnto the maydes father fiftie shekels of siluer: and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.

  • Exod 21:26-27
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    26And if a man smite his seruant in the eie, or his maide in the eye, and hath perished it, hee shall let him goe free for his eye.

    27Also if he smite out his seruants tooth, or his maides tooth, he shall let him goe out free for his tooth.

  • Num 30:8
    71%

    8(30:9) But if her husbande disalow her the same day that hee heareth it, then shall hee make her vowe which shee hath made, and that that shee hath pronounced with her lips, wherewith shee bound her selfe, of none effect: and the Lorde will forgiue her.

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    71%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be shee finde no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath espyed some filthinesse in her, then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, & gone her way, and marrie with an other man,

    3And if the latter husband hate her, & write her a letter of diuorcement, & put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter man die which tooke her to wife:

  • Lev 25:51-52
    2 verses
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    51If there be many yeeres behind, according to them he shall giue againe for his deliuerance, of the money that he was bought for.

    52If there remaine but fewe yeeres vnto the yeere of Iubile, then he shall count with him, and according to his yeeres giue againe for his redemption.

  • Deut 22:23
    70%

    23If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband, & a man finde her in the towne & lye with her,

  • Lev 27:20
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    20And if he will not redeeme the fielde, but the Priest sell the fielde to another man, it shalbe redeemed no more.

  • Deut 15:12
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    12If thy brother an Ebrewe sell himselfe to thee, or an Ebrewesse, and serue thee sixe yeere, euen in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee:

  • Lev 25:26-28
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    26And if he haue no redeemer, but hath gotten and founde to bye it out,

    27Then shal he count the yeeres of his sale, & restore the ouerplus to the man, to whome he solde it: so shall he returne to his possession.

    28But if he can not get sufficient to restore to him, then that which is solde, shall remaine in the hande of him that hath bought it, vntill the yere of the Iubile: and in the Iubile it shal come out, and he shall returne vnto his possession.

  • Deut 25:8
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    8Then the Elders of his citie shall call him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, I wil not take her,

  • Lev 25:48
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    48After that he is solde, he may be bought out: one of his brethren may bye him out,

  • Num 30:12
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    12(30:13) But if her husband disanulled them, the same day that he heard them, nothing that proceeded out of her lippes concerning her vowes or concerning her bondes, shall stand in effect: for her husband hath disanulled them: and the Lord will forgiue her.

  • Deut 15:16-17
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    16And if he say vnto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loueth thee & thine house, and because he is well with thee,

    17Then shalt thou take a naule, and perce his eare through against the doore, and he shall be thy seruant for euer: and vnto thy maid seruant thou shall doe likewise.

  • Deut 22:16
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    16And the maydes father shall say vnto the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife, and he hateth her:

  • Lev 25:54
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    54And if he be not redeemed thus, he shal go out in the yeere of Iubile, he, and his children with him.

  • Num 30:10
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    10(30:11) And if she vowed in her husbands house, or bound her selfe streightly with an othe,

  • Deut 23:15
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    15Thou shalt not deliuer the seruant vnto his master, which is escaped from his master vnto thee.