bSee Deut. 24:1-4
Leviticus 21:7
7 aThey shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman bdivorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.Leviticus 21:14
14A widow, cor a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin ▼▼Hebrew young woman
of his own people, Ezekiel 44:22
22 eThey shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.Malachi 2:15
15 fDid he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? ▼▼Hebrew in it
And what was the one God ▼▼Hebrew the one
seeking? ▼▼Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
jGodly offspring. So guard yourselves ▼▼Or So take care; also verse 16
in your spirit, and let none of you be lfaithless to the wife of your youth. Luke 1:5
Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 mIn the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, ▼▼Greek Zacharias
oof pthe division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 1 Timothy 3:12
12Let deacons each be qthe husband of one wife, rmanaging their children and their own households well.
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