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For the ransom of a life is too costly, and [the price one can pay] can never suffice--
But the chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, It is not legal to put these in the [consecrated] treasury, for it is the price of blood.
Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.
For the wife does not have [exclusive] authority and control over her own body, but the husband [has his rights]; likewise also the husband does not have [exclusive] authority and control over his body, but the wife [has her rights].
The fire [of war] devoured their young men, and their bereaved virgins were not praised in a wedding song.
For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen.
And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah and [her husband] Nahor.
When He let [Moses] alone [to recover], Zipporah said, A husband of blood are you because of the circumcision.
But Elimelech, who Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for Uriah.
Turn back, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband tonight and should bear sons,
Are we not counted by him as strangers? For he sold us and has also quite devoured our money [the price you paid for us].
Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam son of Zabdiel. In his division were 24,000.
Who forsakes the husband and guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
And if a woman dismisses (repudiates and divorces) her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
But if you have gone astray and you are defiled, some man having lain with you beside your husband,
Then [God] is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down into the pit [of destruction]; I have found a ransom (a price of redemption, an atonement)!
And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.
And on the first day of the first month in the second year the tabernacle was erected.