Ulangan 20:7

20:7 Or who among you ¹  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Matius 1:18-19

The Birth of Jesus Christ

1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ²  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 1:19 Because Joseph, her husband to be, ³  was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her ⁴  privately.

[20:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

[1:18]  ² tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).

[1:19]  ³ tn Grk “husband.” See following note for discussion.

[1:19]  ⁴ tn Or “send her away.”

[1:19]  sn In the Jewish context, “full betrothal was so binding that its breaking required a certificate of divorce, and the death of one party made the other a widow or widower (m. Ketub. 1:2; m. Sota 1:5; m. Git. passim…)” (R. H. Gundry, Matthew: A Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art, 21).