22 occurrences

'Marry' in the Bible

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningJestingPowerlessnessSkepticismSons In Lawjoking

Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesTaking A WifeFathers And Daughters

Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.”

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTaking A WifePeople Who Blessed Others

You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredsexSex Before MarriageSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter Relationships

They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution. They are not to marry one divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTDefilement, By SinPriests, Function In Ot TimesProstitutionDivorceMarriage ControlledMaking People HolyMarriage Kjvwhores

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

Verse ConceptsProfanityDivorceMarriage Controlledvirginity

If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

Verse ConceptsIntermarriageMarriage Between Man And Woman

When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

Verse ConceptsYear Of Jubilee

This is what the Lord has commanded concerning Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

Verse ConceptsLimitednessFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalIntermarriageFathers And Daughters

Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.’

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Perverse SexualitySecond MarriageDefilementHusband And WifeWifeA Good Husbandspousemarraige

“When brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBrothersLoyaltyStrangersLack Of SonsBrothers in lawDutyDeath Of A Family MemberRelationships With BoyfriendDeath Of A ChildMarriage Between Man And WomanRaising ChildrenWomen's RolesRelationships And DatingFamily Deathculture

But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Purpose OfSinglenessNot MarryingMarriage Kjv

He is not to marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTPriests, Function In Ot TimesVirginWidowsAvoid DivorceMarriage Controlled

Bible Theasaurus

Combine (2 instances)
Couple (23 instances)
Espouse (2 instances)
Marry (74 instances)

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