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Women’s Chastity

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"If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar." (Song of Solomon 8:9) Not an illustration of this verse. Allegory of Chastity by Hans Memling
Why couldn’t the priest even marry a widow? And yet, I suppose, this same priest could get remarried if he pleased? (Lv 21:13-14) Why does a woman’s sexual status (note, sexual status, not chastity) affect her purity, but a man’s doesn’t?

Seeing that the two adulterers are supposed to die, why is the woman the one that is tested? (Nm 5:27, Lv 20:10) Furthermore, if she’s supposed to die, why is there even a need for the curse?

Why is the woman the only one caught as not being a virgin, but the man isn’t? So then the woman is caught at her marriage and the man gets off and marries, has a family and lives his life. How is this fair? (Dt 22:13-17)


Jer 3:1 Why should the woman be the one who’s defiled? If a man divorces his wife and marries another woman, then divorces the second woman (or she dies), and goes back to his first wife (as long as she had not remarried), he’s not defiled and it’s OK.

​Jas 4:4 The ESV note says that the Greek literally says, "You adulteresses!" Why is adultery always characterized as something women do, when men are actually more likely to commit adultery?
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