Deuteronomy 21:14
If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 34:2 : 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.
- Deut 22:19 : 19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
- Deut 22:24 : 24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
- Deut 22:29 : 29 The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
- Judg 19:24 : 24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”
- Exod 21:7-9 : 7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters. 10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
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- Exod 21:7-115 verses82%
7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
- Deut 21:10-134 verses81%
10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
12you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.
- Deut 22:28-292 verses76%
28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.
29The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
- Exod 21:2-54 verses76%
2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.
3If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.
4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.
5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
- Deut 15:12-132 verses76%
12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.
13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
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20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Exod 22:16-172 verses74%
16Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.
17If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
- Deut 22:13-142 verses74%
13Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,
14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
- Deut 24:1-44 verses73%
1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,
4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Hos 3:2-32 verses73%
2So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.
3Then I told her,“You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or become joined to another man, and I also will wait for you.”
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15Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
- Deut 22:19-213 verses72%
19They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.
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24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
- Deut 15:16-183 verses72%
16However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,
17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).
18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
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39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.
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44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
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30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
- Num 30:5-62 verses71%
5But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, then none of her vows or her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand. And the LORD will release her from it, because her father overruled her.
6Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,
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26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
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8But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”
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21However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.
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14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.
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26You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,
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8But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify the vow she has taken, and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the LORD will release her from it.
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11and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.
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14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.