Exodus 21:8
American Standard Version
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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Exodus 21:8 in other translations
If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
Exodus 21:8 in context
- 6then 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.
- 7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
- 8If 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.
- 9And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
- 10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.