Exodus 21:8 Cross References - NSB

⁸ »If she does not please the master who has chosen her as a wife, he must let her be bought back by one of her close relatives. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has treated her unfairly.

⁸ It was clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women.

²⁹ Moses answered: »As soon as I leave you, I will pray to Jehovah. Tomorrow the swarms of flies will go away from you, your officials, and your people. But you must stop tricking us by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to Jehovah.«

⁷ »Is there anyone here engaged to be married? If so, he should go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will marry the woman he is engaged to.

¹¹ »If you see a beautiful woman among the captives and your heart is set on her, you may marry her. ¹² »Take her to your home. She should shave her head and cut her nails. ¹³ »She should no longer wear the clothes she was wearing when you captured her. She may live in your house and mourn the loss of her father and mother for one month. After that you may marry her. ¹⁴ »Later if you are not happy with the woman you may divorce her. She may go free. But you have slept with her as your wife, so you cannot sell her as a slave or make her into your own slave.

¹⁹ »‘If you have acted in truth and sincerity today to Gideon and his family then be happy with Abimelech and let him be happy with you.

³ His father and mother asked him: »Why do you go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can you not find someone in our own family or among all our people?« Samson told his father: »I like her! She is the one I want. Get her for me.«

⁶ Samuel was upset to hear the leaders say they wanted a king. So he prayed about it.

⁸ Saul became very angry because he considered this saying to be insulting. He said: »To David they credit tens of thousands but to me they credit only a few thousand. The only thing left for David is my kingdom.«

¹⁵ »But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

¹¹ »The people of Judah have done wrong. They deal treacherously and committed an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. ¹² »Jehovah will remove from the community of Israel those who did this. They will never again participate in the national offerings to Jehovah of Hosts. ¹³ »Another thing you do is drown Jehovah’s altar with tears, weeping and wailing. This is because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him. ¹⁴ »You ask: Why do you not accept our offerings? It is because Jehovah is a witness between you and the wife of your youth. The one to whom you have been unfaithful! She is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows. ¹⁵ »Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.