Deuteronomy 20:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

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  • Deut 24:5 : 5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, nor shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring joy to his wife whom he has taken.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.
  • Matt 1:18 : 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened in this way: When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit.
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 And they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it: I ask you to have me excused. 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them: I ask you to have me excused. 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
  • 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
  • Deut 22:23-25 : 23 If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you. 25 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

    6And what man is he who has planted a vineyard and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

  • Deut 24:5
    80%

    5When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, nor shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring joy to his wife whom he has taken.

  • Deut 20:8
    78%

    8And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

  • Deut 28:30
    76%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

    11And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, that you would have her as your wife;

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

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

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21And watch, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man seize his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • Exod 21:10
    74%

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

  • Deut 22:23
    74%

    23If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • Deut 22:25
    73%

    25But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.'

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him; and if he stands firm, and says, 'I do not want to take her,'

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    73%

    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    73%

    27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • Deut 22:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27For he found her in the field and the betrothed young woman cried out, and there was no one to save her.

    28If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

  • Luke 14:20
    72%

    20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • 1 Cor 7:36-38
    3 verses
    72%

    36But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

    37Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

    38So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

  • Deut 25:5
    72%

    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Deut 21:13
    72%

    13And she shall put off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and mourn for her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

  • Judg 21:7
    72%

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

  • Deut 22:20
    71%

    20But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman,

  • Matt 22:25
    71%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • Luke 20:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

    30And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.

  • Num 5:20
    70%

    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

  • Mark 12:20
    70%

    20Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring.

  • Lev 21:7
    70%

    7They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Prov 7:19
    70%

    19For the man is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

  • Num 30:6
    70%

    6And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which she bound her soul,

  • Deut 25:11
    70%

    11When men fight with each other, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and seizes him by his private parts,

  • Gen 24:38
    70%

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Rom 7:2
    69%

    2For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20And whoever lies carnally with a woman who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;