¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

¹⁰ To the married ^(A)I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): ^(B)the wife should not separate from her husband ¹¹ (but if she does, ^(C)she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and ^(D)the husband should not divorce his wife.

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

³ Accordingly, ^(A)she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

³² Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

¹⁰ Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, ^(A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”

²⁹ “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, ^(A)though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

³¹ But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

⁷ The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and ^(A)very angry, because he ^(B)had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, ^(C)for such a thing must not be done.

⁸ But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your^[a] daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.