Deuteronomy 21:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

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  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
  • Gen 12:14-15 : 14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
  • Gen 29:18-20 : 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." 19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
  • Gen 34:3 : 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
  • Gen 34:8 : 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
  • Num 31:18 : 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • Judg 14:2-3 : 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
  • Prov 31:10 : 10 Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

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    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

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