Deuteronomy 21:11
if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
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- Gen 6:2 : 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
- Gen 12:14-15 : 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,
- Gen 29:18-20 : 18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19 Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.” 20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
- Gen 34:3 : 3 Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.
- Gen 34:8 : 8 But Hamor made this appeal to them:“My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- Num 31:18 : 18 But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
- Judg 14:2-3 : 2 When he got home, he told his father and mother,“A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.” 3 But his father and mother said to him,“Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” But Samson said to his father,“Get her for me, because she is the right one for me.”
- Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
- Prov 31:10 : 10 The Wife of Noble Character Who can find a wife of noble character? For her value is far more than rubies.
- Prov 31:30 : 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting. A woman who fears the LORD– she makes herself praiseworthy.
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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,
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12you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
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.
14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
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25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
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7Or 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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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.
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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.
- Deut 22:23-286 verses74%
23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,
24you 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.
25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.
26You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,
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.
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11Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him!
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8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
- Deut 22:13-142 verses73%
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!”
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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.’”
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12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,
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–
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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.
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12But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,
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13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.
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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.
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4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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.
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20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.
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29“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
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10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.
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18But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
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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….”
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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,
12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.
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20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
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3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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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.
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18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
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9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.