Deuteronomy 22:13
◄  Deuteronomy 22:13  ►
New International Version (©2011)
If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Suppose a man marries a woman, but after sleeping with her, he turns against her

English Standard Version (©2001)
“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Suppose a man marries a wife but after having sexual relations with her, he despises her,

NET Bible (©2006)
Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A man might marry a woman, sleep with her, and decide he doesn't like her.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If any man takes a wife, and goes in unto her, and hates her,

American King James Version
If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

American Standard Version
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

Darby Bible Translation
If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her,

English Revised Version
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Webster's Bible Translation
If any man shall take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

World English Bible
If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,

Young's Literal Translation
'When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 13-29. - The laws in this section have the design of fostering purity and fidelity in the relation of the sexes, and also of protecting the female against the malice of sated lust and the violence of brutal lust. (For the case supposed in ver. 13, cf. 2 Samuel 13:15. On the whole section see Michaelis, 'Laws of Moses,' pt. 2. § 92; Niebuhr, 'Description de l'Arabie,' Deuteronomy 8; Burckhardt, 'Bedwins,' p. 214.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her. That is, marries a wife, and cohabits with her as man and wife, and after some time dislikes her, and is desirous of parting with her, and therefore takes the following wicked method to obtain it: this is to be understood of a virgin taken to wife, as the Targum of Jonathan explains it; and what follows confirms it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13-30. If a man take a wife, &c.—The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet, it is not necessary that we should curiously and impertinently inquire into them. So far was it from being unworthy of God to leave such things upon record, that the enactments must heighten our admiration of His wisdom and goodness in the management of a people so perverse and so given to irregular passions. Nor is it a better argument that the Scriptures were not written by inspiration of God to object that this passage, and others of a like nature, tend to corrupt the imagination and will be abused by evil-disposed readers, than it is to say that the sun was not created by God, because its light may be abused by wicked men as an assistant in committing crimes which they have meditated [Horne].

Deuteronomy 22:13 Parallel Commentaries

Deuteronomy 22:13 NIV
Deuteronomy 22:13 NLT
Deuteronomy 22:13 ESV
Deuteronomy 22:13 NASB
Deuteronomy 22:13 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


Marriage Violations
13If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her, 14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate: …

Genesis 29:21 Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her."
Deuteronomy 22:14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,"
Deuteronomy 24:1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,
Judges 15:1 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, "I'm going to my wife's room." But her father would not let him go in.