Deuteronomy 22:23-25
23“If there is a abetrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, 24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. bSo you shall purge the evil from your midst.25“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
Deuteronomy 24:5
Miscellaneous Laws
5 c“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year dto be happy with his wife whom he has taken.Matthew 1:18
The Birth of Jesus Christ
18Now the birth of eJesus Christ ▼▼Some manuscripts of the Christ
took place in this way. gWhen his mother Mary had been betrothed ▼▼That is, legally pledged to be married
to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child ifrom the Holy Spirit.
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