One night God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You are going to die, because you have taken this woman; she is already married."

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing and had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter.

Hamor said to him, "My son Shechem has fallen in love with your daughter; please let him marry her.

But they answered, "We cannot let our sister be treated like a common whore."

This is the law in cases where a man is jealous and becomes suspicious that his wife has committed adultery. The woman shall be made to stand in front of the altar, and the priest shall perform this ritual.

In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man's family, and his family line will continue among his people and in his hometown. You are witnesses to this today."

But like an unfaithful wife, you have not been faithful to me. I, the LORD, have spoken."

You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.

In the same way, a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man commits adultery."

So then, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is legally a free woman and does not commit adultery if she marries another man.

For married people I have a command which is not my own but the Lord's: a wife must not leave her husband;

but if she does, she must remain single or else be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not divorce his wife.

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.