Exodus 21:8

If she please not her adon, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed [go free]; to sell her unto an am nochri (foreign people) he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

In Context

7And if an ish sell his bat to be an amah (maidservant), she shall not go out as the avadim [go free].

9And if he have betrothed her unto his ben, he shall deal with her according to the mishpat habanot (rights of [free] daughters). + 21:9 i.e., those rights of Ex 21:10

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Cross References

Genesis 28:8And Esav seeing that the Banot Kena'an pleased not Yitzchak his av;

Deuteronomy 20:7And what ish is there that hath betrothed an isha, and hath not taken her? Let him go and return unto his bais, lest he die in the milchamah, and another ish take her.

Deuteronomy 21:14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for kesef, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Judges 14:3Then his av and his em said unto him, Is there not among the banot of thy achim, or among kol Ami (all my people) an isha, that thou goest to take an isha of the Pelishtim haArelim? And Shimshon said unto his av, Get her for me; for she is yashrah (right) in my eyes.

1 Samuel 18:8And Sha'ul was very angry, and the saying was displeasing in his eyes and he said, They have ascribed unto Dovid revavot, and to me they have ascribed but alafim; and what can he have more but the maluchah (kingship)?

Malachi 2:11Yehudah hath broken faith, 1 and a toeva (abomination) is committed 1 in Yisroel and in Yerushalayim; 1 for Yehudah hath committed chillul against 1 the Beis Hamikdash Hashem loves, 1 by marrying the bat el nekhar. 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12

Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say,… Read the whole commentary →

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