11And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. …
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. …
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)By this law a soldier is allowed to marry his captive if he pleased. For the hardness of their hearts Moses gave them this permission, lest, if they had not had liberty given them to marry such, they should have taken liberty to defile themselves with them, and by such wickedness the camp would have been troubled. The man is supposed to have a wife already, and to take this wife for a secondary wi…
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