12 Bible Verses about Engagement

And Jacob will love Rachel, and will say, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy daughter the small. And Laban will say, Good for me to give her to thee rather than for me to give her to another man. Dwell with me. And Jacob will serve for Rachel seven years, and they will be in his eyes as a few days in his loving her.read more.
And Jacob will say to Laban, Give my wife, for the days were completed, and I will go in to her. And Laban will gather together all the men of the place, and will make a drinking. And it will be in the evening, and he will take Leah his daughter, and bring her to him, and he will go in to her. And Laban will give to her, Zilpah his maid, to Leah his daughter a maid. And it will be in the morning, and behold, she was Leak And he will say to Laban, What this thou didst to me? did I not serve with thee for Rachel? and wherefore didst thou deceive me? And Laban will say, It shall not be done so in our place, to give the small before the first-born. Complete her seven, and we will give to thee also this for work which thou shalt work with me yet other seven years. And Jacob will do so, and he will complete her seven, and he will give to him Rachel his daughter to him for a wife. And Laban will give to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his maid to her for a maid. And he will go in also to Rachel, and he will also love Rachel more than Leah, and he will serve with him yet other seven years. And Jehovah will see that Leah was hated, and he will open her womb: and Rachel barren.

If evil in the eyes of her lord, he did not betroth her and he ransomed her: to a strange people he shall not have power to sell her, in his acting deceitfully by her. And if to a son he shall betroth her, according to the judgment of daughters he shall do to her.

If a man shall seduce a virgin who was not betrothed, and lying with her, endowing, he shall endow her to him for a wife.

And when a man shall lie with a woman with effusion of seed, and she a maid-servant betrothed to a man, and not redeemed by ransoming, and freedom not given to her, there shall be a punishment: they shall not die because she was not free.

And what man betrothed a wife and took her not? he shall go and turn back to his house lest he shall die in the war, and another man shall take her.

When there shall be a maiden, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man found her in the city and lay with her; And ye brought out them two to the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they died; and the maiden for the word which she cried not in the city, and the man for the word which he humbled his neighbor's wife: and thou didst put away evil from the midst of thee. And if in the field the man shall find the betrothed maiden, and the man held fast upon her, and lay with her, and the man that lay with her died alone.read more.
And to the maiden thou shalt not do a word; not to the maiden the sin of death: for as a man shall rise up against his friend, and he killed him the soul, so this word. For in the field he found her, the betrothed maiden cried and none saving her. When a man shall find a maiden, a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold upon her and lay with her, and they were were found;

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house and shall not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and thou shalt not lay it open.

And David will send messengers to the man of shame, son of Saul, saying, Thou shalt give my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred uncircumcisions of the rovers.

And the generation of Jesus Christ was thus: for Mary his mother having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child by the Holy Ghost.

To a virgin betrothed to a man to whom the name of Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name Mary.

To be enrolled with Mary his betrothed wife, being pregnant.

For I am zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.