Deuteronomy 22:23
If 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;
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- Matt 1:18-19 : 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.
- Deut 20:7 : 7 Or 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.
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- Deut 22:24-307 verses91%
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;
29Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.
30A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
- Deut 22:13-2210 verses86%
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:
15Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:
16And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;
17And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.
18Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;
19They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.
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.
22If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.
- Exod 22:16-172 verses86%
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.
17If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.
- Num 5:12-132 verses80%
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;
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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.
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20But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:
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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.
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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.
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11If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;
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13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.
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9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.
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2If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,
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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.
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18And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.
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24See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man.
- Lev 18:19-202 verses72%
19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.
20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.
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6But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.
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12Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
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5Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.
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36But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.
- Lev 20:10-112 verses71%
10And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
11And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.
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2And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.
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3When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.
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11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
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24And if any man has sex relations with her so that her blood comes on him, he will be unclean for seven days and every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean.
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16She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.
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16And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.
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28But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.
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16But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
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3And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.
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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.