Deuteronomy 22:13

Laws concerning Chastity

¹³ "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13

Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-30

(Read Deuteronomy 22:13-30)

These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

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