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Biblia Warszawska

Księga Powtórzonego Prawa 20:7

A jeżeli ktoś zaręczył się z kobietą, a jeszcze jej nie pojął, niech idzie z powrotem do swego domu, aby nie zginął w walce i by ktoś inny jej nie pojął.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Betrothal;   Soldiers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Betrothals;   Home;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Marriage;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - War, Holy War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Husband;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Army;   Marriage;   War;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Marriage;   War;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Betrothal;   Marriage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Betrothment;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;   Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Deuteronomy;   War;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anointing;   Asa;   Cruelty;   Heart;   Judas Maccabeus;   Marriage;   Soá¹­ah;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Abo który jest mąż, co by zrękowawszy sobie żonę nie pojął jej? Niech idzie a wróci się do domu swego, by snadź w bitwie nie był zabit, a pojąłby ją kto iny.
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Albo jeźli kto jest, co ma poślubioną żonę, a jeszcze jej nie pojął, niech idzie, a wróci się do domu swego, by snać nie zginął w bitwie, a kto inny nie pojął jej.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Także ten, kto zaręczył się z kobietą, lecz jeszcze jej nie pojął, niech wraca z powrotem do domu, aby nie zginął w bitwie i jego wybranki nie pojął ktoś inny!
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Albo jeśli jest ktoś, kto zaślubił kobietę, ale jeszcze jej nie pojął niech pójdzie i wróci do swego domu, aby nie zginął na wojnie, a pojął by ją ktoś inny.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Albo jeźli kto jest, co ma poślubioną żonę, a jeszcze jej nie pojął, niech idzie, a wróci się do domu swego, by snać nie zginął w bitwie, a kto inny nie pojął jej.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Albo jeśli jest ktoś, kto poślubił żonę, a jeszcze jej nie pojął, niech idzie i wraca do swego domu, by nie zginął w bitwie i aby inny jej nie pojął.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

betrothed a wife: It was customary among the Jews to contract matrimony, espouse, or betroth, and for a considerable time to leave the parties in the houses of the respective parents; and when the bridegroom had made proper preparations, then the bride was brought home to his house, and the marriage consummated. The provisions in this verse refer to a case of this kind; though the Jews extend it to him who had newly consummated his marriage, and even to him who had married his brother's wife. It was deemed a peculiar hardship for a person to be obliged to go to battle, who had left a house unfinished, newly purchased land half tilled, or a wife with whom he had just contracted marriage. Deuteronomy 22:23-25, Deuteronomy 24:5, Matthew 1:18

lest he die: Deuteronomy 28:30, Luke 14:18-20, 2 Timothy 2:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:8 - who hath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her?.... Home to his house and bedded with her; has only betrothed her, but is not properly married to her, the nuptials are not completed; this the Jews understand of anyone betrothed to him, whether a virgin or a widow, or the wife of a deceased brother (yea, they say, if his brother is dead in war, he returns and comes home), but not of a former wife divorced and received again m:

let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her; or marry her.

m Misn. Sotah, ib. sect. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 20:7. Betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? — It was customary among the Jews to contract matrimony, espouse or betroth, and for some considerable time to leave the parties in the houses of their respective parents: when the bridegroom had made proper preparations, then the bride was brought home to his house, and thus the marriage was consummated. The provisions in this verse refer to a case of this kind; for it was deemed an excessive hardship for a person to be obliged to go to battle, where there was a probability of his being slain, who had left a new house unfinished; a newly purchased heritage half tilled; or a wife with whom he had just contracted marriage. Homer represents the case of Protesilaus as very afflicting, who was obliged to go to the Trojan war, leaving his wife in the deepest distress, and his house unfinished.

Του δε και αμφιδρυφης αλοχος Φυλακῃ ελελειπτο,

Και δομος ἡμιτελης· τον δ' εκτανε Δαρδανος ανηρ,

Νηος αποθρωσκοντα πολυ πρωτιστον Αχαιων.

ILIAD, 1. ii., ver. 100.

"A wife he left,

To rend in Phylace her bleeding cheeks,

And an unfinish'd mansion: first he died

Of all the Greeks; for as he leap'd to land,

Long ere the rest, a Dardan struck him dead."

COWPER.


 
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