Bible Cross References
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Deuteronomy 22:22-27
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"If a man is caught having intercourse with another man's wife, both of them are to be put to death. In this way you will get rid of this evil.
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"Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.
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You are to take them outside the town and stone them to death. She is to die because she did not cry out for help, although she was in a town, where she could have been heard. And the man is to die because he had intercourse with someone who was engaged. In this way you will get rid of this evil.
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"Suppose a man out in the countryside rapes a young woman who is engaged to someone else. Then only the man is to be put to death;
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nothing is to be done to the woman, because she has not committed a sin worthy of death. This case is the same as when one man attacks another man and murders him.
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The man raped the engaged woman in the countryside, and although she cried for help, there was no one to help her.
Matthew 1:18
This was how the birth of Jesus Christ took place. His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married, she found out that she was going to have a baby by the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:19
Joseph was a man who always did what was right, but he did not want to disgrace Mary publicly; so he made plans to break the engagement privately.