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Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
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He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.
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Marriage Violations
If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her
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Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
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No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
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And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”
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Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.
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And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”
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Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.
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They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
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He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years.
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Samson’s Marriage
Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.
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Wives for the Benjamites
The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
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“How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the Lord not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”
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Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”
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Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage; only serve me bravely and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul said to himself, “I will not raise a hand against him. Let the Philistines do that!”
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So when the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
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David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
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So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”
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Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage.
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He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab’s family.
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But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot.
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Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore him Attai.
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Reuben
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,