Exodus 21:8
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.
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Gill's Exposition
If she please not her master,.... "Be evil in the eyes of her master" (p); and he has no liking of her, and love to her, not being agreeable in her person, temper, or conduct, so that he does not…
The first verse is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following chapters, some of them relating to the religious worship of God, but most of them relating to matters between…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
First special case under the general law of v.7: if a woman, bought with the intention of being made her master's concubine, does not please her master, he must let her be redeemed, and he has no…
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