Deuteronomy 21:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 6:2 : 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.
  • Gen 12:14-15 : 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very beautiful. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
  • Gen 29:18-20 : 18 And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man; stay with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her.
  • Gen 34:3 : 3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to her.
  • Gen 34:8 : 8 And Hamor spoke with them, saying, My son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you give her to him as a wife.
  • Num 31:18 : 18 But all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • Judg 14:2-3 : 2 And he came up and told his father and mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore, get her for me as a wife. 3 Then his father and mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me well.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
  • Prov 31:10 : 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her worth is far above rubies.
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

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    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,

  • Deut 21:12-14
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    12Then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and trim her nails;

    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.

    14And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7And 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.

  • Lev 21:13-14
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    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.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • Deut 22:23-28
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    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,

    24Then 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.

    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.

    26But to the young woman you shall do nothing; there is in the young woman no sin worthy of death; for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.

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

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    11So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and you shall worship him.

  • Exod 21:8-11
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    8If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

    9And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

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

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    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.

  • Judg 21:21-22
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    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.

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

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    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.

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  • Deut 20:13-14
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    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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  • Deut 24:1-2
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    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.

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  • Deut 24:4-5
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    4Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

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  • Deut 22:20-21
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    20But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman,

    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

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