Deuteronomy 20:7
7 aAnd is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’Matthew 1:18-19
The Birth of Jesus Christ
18Now the birth of bJesus Christ ▼▼Some manuscripts of the Christ
took place in this way. dWhen 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 ffrom the Holy Spirit. 19And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling gto put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
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