¹⁸ You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

⁷ Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

⁸ But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

⁴ Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

¹⁰ But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

¹¹ (Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

³ So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

¹² And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

³² The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

²⁰ Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

¹⁰ And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.

²⁹ This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

³¹ But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?