bethrothed a wife
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 22:23-25
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If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and [another] man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,
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you must take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death-- the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor's fianc�e. You must purge the evil from you.
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But if the man encounters the engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 24:5
"When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free [to stay] at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 1:18
The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
lest he die
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 28:30
You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_42 14:18-20
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"But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.'
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"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me.'
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"And another said, 'I just got married, and therefore I'm unable to come.'
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_55 2:4
To please the recruiter, no one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of everyday life.
