18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

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18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

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20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.

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20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,
    so you, Israel, have been unfaithful(A) to me,”
declares the Lord.

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10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.(A) 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband.(B) And a husband must not divorce his wife.

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12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”(A)

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So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.(A) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

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32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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32 “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

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10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

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10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite,(A) Mahlon’s widow, as my wife,(B) in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown.(C) Today you are witnesses!(D)

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29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

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29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray(A) and makes herself impure while married to her husband,

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31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

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31 But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?(A)

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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

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Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked(A) and furious,(B) because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[a] Israel(C) by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.(D)

But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:7 Or against

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

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When Shechem(A) son of Hamor(B) the Hivite,(C) the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.(D)

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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

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But God came to Abimelek(A) in a dream(B) one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead(C) because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”(D)

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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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Marriage should be honored by all,(A) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.(B)

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