Exodus 21:8
 Exodus 21:8 
New International Version (© 2011)
If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

King James Bible
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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

Exodus 21:8 Additional Translations
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

please not. Heb. be evil in the eyes of.

Genesis 28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Judges 14:3 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people...

1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

1 Samuel 18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands...

who hath

Deuteronomy 20:7 And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle...

Deuteronomy 21:11-14 And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would have her to your wife...

seeing

Exodus 8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh...

Judges 9:19 If you then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech...

Job 6:15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Malachi 2:11-15 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem...

Exodus 21:8 Parallel Commentaries
Authority Betrothed Dealing Dealt Deceitfully Designated Displeasing Espoused Evil Eyes Faithlessly False. Foreign Foreigners Free Married Master Nation Payment Please Pleasing Power Price Ransomed Redeemed Right Selected Sell Strange Treacherously Unfaithfully
Authority Betrothed Dealing Dealt Deceitfully Designated Displeasing Espoused Evil Eyes Faithlessly False. Foreign Foreigners Free Married Master Nation Payment Please Pleasing Power Price Ransomed Redeemed Right Selected Sell Strange Treacherously Unfaithfully
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Exodus 21:7 "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.
Exodus 21:9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.
Ezekiel 15:8 I will make the land desolate because they have been unfaithful, declares the Sovereign LORD."