Deuteronomy 21:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

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  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
  • Gen 12:14-15 : 14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair. 15 And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.
  • Gen 29:18-20 : 18 And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me. 20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
  • Gen 34:3 : 3 Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
  • Gen 34:8 : 8 But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?
  • Num 31:18 : 18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
  • Judg 14:2-3 : 2 And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife. 3 Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 31:10 : 10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:10
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    10When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

  • Deut 21:12-14
    3 verses
    83%

    12Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut;

    13And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

    14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

  • Prov 6:25
    76%

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Deut 20:7
    75%

    7Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

  • Lev 21:13-14
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    74%

    13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

    14A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

  • Deut 22:23-28
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    74%

    23If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

    24Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

    25But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;

    26Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

    27For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

    28If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

  • Ps 45:11
    73%

    11So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

  • Exod 21:8-11
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    73%

    8If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

    9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

    10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    73%

    13If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

    14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Judg 21:21-22
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    72%

    21And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.

    22And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

  • Num 5:12-13
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    72%

    12Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Deut 28:30
    72%

    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • Deut 20:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

    14But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

  • Deut 24:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

    2And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

  • Deut 24:4-5
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    72%

    4Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

    5A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

  • Deut 22:20-21
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    71%

    20But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

    21Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Judg 21:11
    71%

    11And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

  • Num 5:29
    71%

    29This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

  • Job 31:10
    71%

    10Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

  • Num 31:18
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    18But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

  • Deut 25:11-12
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    11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

    12Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Lev 19:20
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    20If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Lev 18:18
    69%

    18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

  • Song 4:9
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    9You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!