Bible Verses About Marriage

"So now if you people intend to show grace and truth to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me, so that I can turn elsewhere."

Lavan and B'tu'el replied, "Since this comes from ADONAI, we can't say anything to you either bad or good.

Rivkah is here in front of you; take her and go. Let her be your master's son's wife, as ADONAI has said."

Lavan gathered all the men of the place and gave a banquet.

and you will take their daughters as wives for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves to their own gods and make your sons do the same!

Here is what ADONAI has ordered concerning the daughters of Tz'lof'chad: 'Let them be married to whomever they think best, but they must marry only into a family from their father's tribe.

In this way no inheritance of the people of Isra'el will move from one tribe to another; for each of the people of Isra'el is to hold on to the land for inheritance belonging to his father's tribe.

Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Isra'el is to become the wife of someone from the family of her father's tribe, so that every one of the people of Isra'el will stay in possession of his ancestors' inheritance.

Thus no inheritance will move from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Isra'el will hold on to its own inheritance."

The daughters of Tz'lof'chad did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

Machlah, Tirtzah, Hoglah, Milkah and No'ah all got married to sons of their father's brothers.

They were married into the families of the descendants of M'nasheh the son of Yosef, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's family.

These are the mitzvot and rulings which ADONAI gave through Moshe to the people of Isra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho. 4 1-2

Don't intermarry with them -don't give your daughter to his son, and don't take his daughter for your son.

For he will turn your children away from following me in order to serve other gods. If this happens, the anger of ADONAI will flare up against you, and he will quickly destroy you.

"If your brother the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife whom you love, or your friend who means as much to you as yourself, secretly tries to entice you to go and serve other gods, which you haven't known, neither you nor your ancestors -

gods of the peoples surrounding you, whether near or far away from you, anywhere in the world -

you are not to consent, and you are not to listen to him; and you must not pity him or spare him; and you may not conceal him.

Rather, you must kill him! Your own hand must be the first one on him in putting him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

You are to stone him to death; because he has tried to draw you away from ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a life of slavery.

"Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house.

His father went down to the woman, and there Shimshon gave a banquet - this is what the young men used to do.

Meanwhile, Bo'az had gone up to the gate and had sat down there, when the redeemer of whom Bo'az had spoken passed by. "Such-and-such," he said, "come over, and sit down"; so he came over and sat down.

He took ten of the city's leaders and said, "Sit down here"; and they sat down.

Then he said to the redeeming kinsman, "The parcel of land which used to belong to our relative Elimelekh is being offered for sale by Na'omi, who has returned from the plain of Mo'av.