When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
Parallel translations
- KJV And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
- BSB If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
- NKJV when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man’s wife,
- NASB and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife,
- NLT When she leaves his house, she is free to marry another man.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Mark 10:11He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
- 1 Cor 7:15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
- Lev 22:13But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
- Lev 21:7“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
- Lev 21:14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
- Num 30:9“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.
- Matt 5:32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
- Ezek 44:22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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