Deuteronomy 21:11

American Standard Version (1901)

and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

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  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
  • Gen 12:14-15 : 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
  • Gen 29:18-20 : 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
  • Gen 34:3 : 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
  • Gen 34:8 : 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.
  • Num 31:18 : 18 But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • Judg 14:2-3 : 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 31:10 : 10 A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

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    10When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

  • Deut 21:12-14
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    12then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

    13and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

    14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  • Deut 20:7
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    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.

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    16And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

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    23If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

    24then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

    25But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:

    26but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;

    27for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

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    11So will the king desire thy beauty; For he is thy lord; And reverence thou him.

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    8If 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.

    9And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    10If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

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  • Deut 22:13-14
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    13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Judg 21:21-22
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    21and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

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