Exodus 21:8

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.

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WEBBE

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.

BSB

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

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אִם־ 'im- if H518 רָעָה ra·'ah she is bad H7489 בְּעֵינֵי be·'ei·nei in [the] eyes of H5869 אֲדֹנֶיהָ 'a·do·nei·ha master(s) her H113 אֲשֶׁר־ 'a·sher- who H834 לוֹ lo for (the) himself H9033 יְעָדָהּ ye·'a·dah he designated her H3259 וְהֶפְדָּהּ ve·hef·dah and he will let be ransomed her H6299 לְעַם le·'am to a people H5971 נָכְרִי na·khe·ri foreign H5237 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 יִמְשֹׁל yim·shol he will have dominion H4910 לְמָכְרָהּ le·ma·khe·rah to sell her H4376 בְּבִגְדוֹ־ be·vig·dov- because has dealt treacherously he H898 בָהּ vah with (the) her H9034

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–11

The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.

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