Judges 11:2
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2 Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying to him, “You shall not inherit anything in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
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Proverbs 2:16
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Genesis 12:10
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Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
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Deuteronomy 23:2
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2 “Those born of an illicit union shall not come into the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall come into the assembly of the Lord.
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Galatians 4:30
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30 But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the enslaved woman and her child, for the child of the enslaved woman will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman.”(A)
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Proverbs 6:24-26
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24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(B)
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[c]
but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.(C)
Proverbs 5:20
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20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[a](A)
Footnotes
- 5.20 Heb alien woman
Proverbs 5:3
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Footnotes
- 5.3 Heb strange woman
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