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If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
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Betrothal's Sacred Bond
Commentators explain that in ancient Israel, a betrothed woman was legally regarded as a wife. This commitment was so serious that infidelity during betrothal was treated as adultery. Scholar Charles Ellicott notes this law illuminates the story in Matthew 1, where Joseph, though only betrothed to Mary, considered her his wife and planned to divorce her before the angel's intervention.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 22:23–27. PURITY OF THE BETROTHED.
His neighbour’s wife. —It is evident from the l…
16th Century
Protestant
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed. The severity of the punishment is now extended further, and a betrothed woman is counted as a w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband , &c.] But not married, not as yet brought home to her hus…
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Presbyterian
These and similar regulations might have been necessary then, and yet it is not necessary that we scrupulously examine them. The laws relate to the…
