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Exodus 21:8

The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 21:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

If she please not her master. If he decline, i.e; to carry out the contract, and take her for his wife. Then let her be redeemed. Rather, "Then let him cause her to be redeemed." Let him, i.e; look out for some one who will buy her of him and take his obligation of marriage off his hands To sell her to a strange nation he shall not have power.

Only, this purchaser must be a Hebrew, like himself, and not a foreigner, since her father consented to her becoming a slave only on the condition of her being wedded to a Hebrew. Seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

By professing to take her as a secondary wife, and not carrying out the contract.

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