Deuteronomy 22:13

¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

If any man {H376} take {H3947} a wife {H802}, and go in {H935} unto her, and hate {H8130} her,

"If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her and then, having come to dislike her,

Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 29:21 (3 votes)

    And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

  • Deuteronomy 24:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Ephesians 5:28 (2 votes)

    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

  • Ephesians 5:29 (2 votes)

    For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

  • Judges 15:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

  • Judges 15:2 (2 votes)

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • Genesis 29:23 (2 votes)

    And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.