Deuteronomy 20:7

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Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:5 : 5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
  • Matt 1:18 : 18 The Birth of Jesus Christ Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him,‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’ 19 Another said,‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’ 20 Another said,‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’
  • 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
  • Deut 22:23-25 : 23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her, 24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you. 25 But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:5-6
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    5Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops,“Who among you has built a new house and not dedicated it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else dedicate it.

    6Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

  • Deut 24:5
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    5When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

  • Deut 20:8
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    8In addition, the officers are to say to the troops,“Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s heart as fearful as his own.”

  • Deut 28:30
    76%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Deut 21:10-11
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    10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

    11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

  • Lev 21:13-14
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    13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

    14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

  • Judg 21:21-22
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    21and keep your eyes open. When you see the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

    22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

  • Exod 21:10
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    10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

  • Deut 22:23
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    23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,

  • Deut 22:25
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    25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

  • Deut 25:7-8
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    7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

    8Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,”

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    13Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,

    14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

  • Exod 22:16-17
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    16Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.

    17If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

  • Deut 22:27-28
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    27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

    28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.

  • Luke 14:20
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    20Another said,‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

    2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.

    3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

  • 1 Cor 7:36-38
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    36If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.

    37But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.

    38So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

  • Deut 25:5
    72%

    5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

  • Deut 21:13
    72%

    13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.

  • Judg 21:7
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    7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband

    11(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.

  • Deut 22:20
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    20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

  • Luke 20:29-30
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    29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

    30The second

  • Num 5:20
    70%

    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

  • Mark 12:20
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    20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

  • Lev 21:7
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    7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Prov 7:19
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    19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.

  • Num 30:6
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    6Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

  • Deut 25:11
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    11If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,

  • Gen 24:38
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    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

  • Lev 19:20
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    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 5:13
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    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–