Exodus 21:8
Good News Translation
If she is sold to someone who intends to make her his wife, but he doesn't like her, then she is to be sold back to her father; her master cannot sell her to foreigners, because he has treated her unfairly.

New Revised Standard Version
If she does not please her master, who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt unfairly with her.

Contemporary English Version
If she doesn't please the man who bought her to be his wife, he must let her be bought back. He cannot sell her to foreigners; this would break the contract he made with her.

New American Bible
But if she displeases her master, who had designated her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

please not.

Genesis 28:8 Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:

Judges 14:3 And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said to his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes.

1 Samuel 8:6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 18:8 And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom?

who hath

Deuteronomy 20:7 What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her.

Deuteronomy 21:11-14 And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife, . . .

seeing

Exodus 8:29 And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

Judges 9:19 If therefore you have dealt well, and without fault, with Jerobaal and his house, rejoice ye, this day, in Abimelech, and may he rejoice in you.

Job 6:15 My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

Malachi 2:11-15 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. . . .

Context
Laws for Servants
7If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out. 8If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.9But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:7
If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

Exodus 21:9
But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Ezekiel 15:8
And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.

Exodus 21:7
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