Deuteronomy 20:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And who `is' the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:5 : 5 `When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and `one' doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;
  • Matt 1:18 : 18 And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused. 19 `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused: 20 and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.
  • 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
  • Deut 22:23-25 : 23 `When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her; 24 then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, `being' in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst. 25 `And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5 `And the authorities have spoken unto the people, saying, Who `is' the man that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man dedicate it.

    6 `And who `is' the man that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not made it common? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.

  • 5 `When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and `one' doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

  • 8 `And the authorities have added to speak unto the people, and said, Who `is' the man that is afraid and tender of heart? -- let him go and turn back to his house, and the heart of his brethren doth not melt like his heart;

  • 30 `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;

  • 75%

    10 `When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,

    11 and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 `And he taketh a wife in her virginity;

    14 widow, or cast out, or polluted one -- a harlot -- these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take `for' a wife,

  • 75%

    21 and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances -- then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;

    22 and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

  • 10 `If another `woman' he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

  • 23 `When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

  • 25 `And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;

    8 and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;

  • 73%

    13 `When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

    14 and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

  • 2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

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    16 `And when a man doth entice a virgin who `is' not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

    17 if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.

  • 27 Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • 72%

    27 for in a field he found her, she hath cried -- the damsel who is betrothed -- and she hath no saviour.

    28 `When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,

  • 20 and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

    2 and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

    3 and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

  • 72%

    36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

    37 And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;

    38 so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

  • 5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

  • 13 and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:

  • 7 what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

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    10 and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11 but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • 20 `And if this thing hath been truth -- tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel --

  • 25 `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

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    29 `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

    30 and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

  • 20 and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband --

  • 20 `There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

  • 7 `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he `is' holy to his God;

  • 19 For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

  • 6 `And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows `are' on her, or a wrongful utterance `on' her lips, which she hath bound on her soul,

  • 11 `When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,

  • 38 If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

  • 2 for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

  • 20 `And when a man lieth with a woman with seed of copulation, and she a maid-servant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom hath not been given to her, an investigation there is; they are not put to death, for she `is' not free.

  • 13 and a man hath lain with her `with' the seed of copulation, and it hath been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she hath been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she hath not been caught,