Deuteronomy Chapter 22 verse 13 Holy Bible
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,
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If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her,
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If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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If any man shall take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,
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If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,
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`When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 13-29. - The laws in this section have the design of fostering purity and fidelity in the relation of the sexes, and also of protecting the female against the malice of sated lust and the violence of brutal lust. (For the case supposed in ver. 13, cf. 2 Samuel 13:15. On the whole section see Michaelis, 'Laws of Moses,' pt. 2. ยง 92; Niebuhr, 'Description de l'Arabie,' Deuteronomy 8; Burckhardt, 'Bedwins,' p. 214.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersDeuteronomy 22:13-30. LAWS OF CONJUGAL FIDELITY.(13-21) Virginity.--The law in these verses will be best appreciated by considering its effects. The maidens in Israel would be compelled to guard their maidenliness and innocence, as they valued their lives. Jealousy and caprice on the part of the husbands, in view of this law, would be avoided as likely to incur discredit and serious penalties. A fine of 100 shekels (as in Deuteronomy 22:19), or 50 (as in Deuteronomy 22:29), was no light matter for a nation who found a quarter shekel sufficient for a present to a great man (1Samuel 9:8), and half a shekel too much for a poll-tax on the men of military age (1Chronicles 21:3, and Exodus 30:15; Nehemiah 10:32). The law of the jealousy offering in Numbers 5:12-31, must also be taken into consideration, as guarding the fidelity of the wife. It would be most unadvisable for either man or woman so to act as to bring themselves under the penalties here described. The tendency of these laws would be to make all men watchful and careful for the honour of their families. . . .
