Exodus 21:8
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 28:8 : 8 Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.
- Exod 8:29 : 29 Moses said,“I am going to go out from you and pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the LORD.”
- Deut 20:7 : 7 Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
- Deut 21:11-14 : 11 if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife, 12 you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails, 13 discard 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. 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.
- Judg 9:19 : 19 So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness!
- Judg 14:3 : 3 But his father and mother said to him,“Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” But Samson said to his father,“Get her for me, because she is the right one for me.”
- 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But this request displeased Samuel, for they said,“Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the LORD.
- 1 Sam 18:8 : 8 This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought,“They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”
- Job 6:15 : 15 My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.
- Mal 2:11-15 : 11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god! 12 May the LORD cut off from the community of Jacob every last person who does this, as well as the person who presents improper offerings to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies! 13 You also do this: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you. 14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Exod 21:2-76 verses85%
2 Hebrew 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.
3 If 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.
4 If 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.
5 But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
6 then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
- Exod 21:9-113 verses84%
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.
- Deut 21:11-155 verses82%
11 if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
12 you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
13 discard 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.
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.
15 Laws 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.
- Exod 22:15-173 verses74%
15 If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.
16 Moral 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.
17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
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20 Lying 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.
- Deut 22:19-213 verses73%
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.
20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
21 the 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 accusing 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!”
- Num 30:5-62 verses71%
5 But 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.
6 Vows 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,
- Deut 22:27-293 verses71%
27 for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.
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.
- Exod 21:26-272 verses71%
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.
27 If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
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8 But 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.
- Deut 24:1-33 verses71%
1 If 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.
2 When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
3 If 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,
- Lev 25:51-522 verses70%
51 If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,
52 but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.
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23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,
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20 If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.
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12 Release 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.
- Lev 25:26-283 verses70%
26 If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,
27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
28 If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.
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8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,”
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48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,
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12 But if her husband clearly nullifies them when he hears them, then whatever she says by way of vows or obligations will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will release her from them.
- Deut 15:16-172 verses69%
16 However, 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,
17 you 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).
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16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders,“I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.
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54 If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
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10 If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,
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15 Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.