Marriage in the Bible information

Marriage in the Bible is important to both Judaism and Christianity: Christian views on marriage Jewish views on marriage This disambiguation page lists...

and the Book of Samuel treats the marriage of a royal prince to his half-sister as unusual, rather than wicked. The Bible mentions a number of sexual relationships...

Women in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course...

see also R. C. Klein, "Avunculate Marriage in the Bible", Seforim Blog (October 25, 2015). Joseph Jacobs, Studies in Jewish Statistics (1885; reprinted...

are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation...

The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. Biblical texts outline sources and the legal status of slaves...

Christian polygamy in the West, based on their belief that the Bible glorifies this form of marriage, which they justify by citing the fact that many biblical...

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ‎ Tānāḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/; Hebrew: מִקְרָא‎ Mīqrāʾ‍), is the canonical...

together unless the wife had married someone else after her divorce. The Bible clearly addresses marriage and divorce. Those in troubled marriages are encouraged...

purposes. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, forced marriage, polygamy marriage, polyandry marriage, polygyny marriage, group marriage, coverture...

romanized: nāḥāš) are referred to in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The symbol of a serpent or snake played important roles in the religious traditions...

described in the Bible. The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal...

explicitly mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.[citation needed] In Haredi communities, marriages may be arranged by the parents of the prospective bride and...

Alcoholic beverages appear in the Hebrew Bible, after Noah planted a vineyard and became inebriated. In the New Testament, Jesus miraculously made copious...

interdenominational marriages, though with respect to interfaith marriage, many Christian denominations caution against it, citing verses of the Christian Bible that...

The Bible makes reference to various pharaohs (Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה‎, Parʿō) of Egypt. These include unnamed pharaohs in events described in the Torah, as...

The Bible Belt is a region of the Southern United States and one Midwestern state, the state of Missouri, in all of which socially conservative Protestant...

punishment. The original text of Leviticus 18, like that of most of the Hebrew Bible, is written in Hebrew. The oldest extant versions of the text in Hebrew...

The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state...

The following is a list of women found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. The list appears in alphabetical order. Abigail – mother of Amasa, Sister of...

in levirate marriage the widow only had the right to a son to preserve her husband's name Collins, John J. (2018). Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Third ed...

cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice...

Sororate marriage is a type of marriage in which a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death of...

The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil marriage...

Ethics in the Bible refers to the system(s) or theory(ies) produced by the study, interpretation, and evaluation of biblical morals (including the moral...

Anabaptists use the Luther Bible, which contains the Apocrypha as intertestamental books; Amish wedding ceremonies include "the retelling of the marriage of Tobias...