Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

General references

Bible References

The woman

Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man.
Numbers 30:7
and if her husband heard and is silent as to her in the day that he heard, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand.
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

General references

Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
Numbers 30:9
But every vow of a widow and of her who is divorced, all which she has bound on her soul shall stand against her.
Mark 10:9
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man put apart.