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If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,\u00a0then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor\u2019s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 22:23-24)(NASB)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As you see in this text, engaged virgin is called the wife of the one who\u00a0is engaged to her, that is a similar covenant as the covenant of\u00a0marriage.\u00a0When you\u00a0are engaged\u00a0to someone, you enter the covenant to\u00a0marry that person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think that it is good in the beginning to define what is\u00a0engagement in the view of God. The word from the Old Testament translated \u201cengagement\u201d is the Hebrew \u201caras\u201d, that\u00a0means an engagement to marry, or\u00a0to be bound with a promise to marry someone.\u00a0\u00a0The engaged man and woman are already considered husband and wife, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":91843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[7814,7842,7853,20170,23155,23156,23157],"class_list":{"0":"post-54432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-answer-from-the-bible","8":"tag-casatorie","9":"tag-marriage","10":"tag-love","11":"tag-engagement","12":"tag-inlove","13":"tag-rings","14":"tag-engaged","15":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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I think that it is good in the beginning to define what is\u00a0engagement in the view of God. The word from the Old Testament translated \u201cengagement\u201d is the Hebrew \u201caras\u201d, that\u00a0means an engagement to marry, or\u00a0to be bound with a promise to marry someone.\u00a0\u00a0The engaged man and woman are already considered husband and wife, but without the right to\u00a0have sexual relations before the wedding.Here is a biblical\u00a0text where engaged people are called\u00a0spouses:<\/p>\n