13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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. …
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-30)These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his wife slander her and falsely accuse her, as not having the virginity she pretended to when he married her, upon the disproof of his slander he must be punished, Deut. 22:13-19. What the meaning of that…
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