Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

In 1942 the Bereans again divided over marriage and divorce with the stricter party forming the Dawn Fellowship.

Within Talmudic literature, Jewish law is divided into the six orders of the Mishnah, which are categories by proximate subject matter: Zeraim (" Seeds ") for agricultural laws and prayer, Moed (" Festival "), for the Sabbath and the Festivals, Nashim (" Women "), dealing primarily with marriage and divorce, Nezikin (" Damages "), for civil and criminal law, Kodashim (" Holy things "), for sacrifices and the dietary laws, and Tohorot (" Purities ") for ritual purity.

After Philip's death in 1567, the territory was divided up among his four sons from his first marriage ( Philip was a bigamist ) into four lines: Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Rheinfels and the also previously existing Hesse-Marburg.

This marriage would not create a union between Scotland and England because the Scots insisted that the Treaty declare that Scotland was separate and divided from England and that its rights, laws, liberties and customs were wholly and inviolably preserved for all time.

Manzoni's marriage proved a most happy one, and he led for many years a retired domestic life, divided between literature and the picturesque husbandry of Lombardy.

Soon after the marriage, Lazar, Vuk and king Tvrtko I of Bosnia attacked župan Nikola Altomanovic, who ruled in the western part of Serbia, and conquered and divided his lands in 1373.

Prenuptial agreements are a matter of civil law, so Catholic canon law does not rule them out in principle ( for example, to determine how property would be divided among the children of a prior marriage upon the death of one spouse ).

Matrimonial regimes, or marital property systems, are systems of property ownership between spouses providing for the creation or absence of a marital estate, and if created, what properties are included in that estate, how and by whom it is managed, and how it will be divided and inherited at the end of the marriage.

* accrual system ( aka differed community of property )-marital property is owned separately during the marriage, but after marriage ( divorce, death of a spouse ), the net assets are lumped together as property in joint tenancy and divided.

In a community property jurisdiction, most property acquired during the marriage ( except for gifts or inheritances )— the community, or communio bonorum — is owned jointly by both spouses and is divided upon divorce, annulment or death.

In the arrangements for this marriage, Mme de Sévigné divided all her fortune among her children, and reserved for herself only part of the life interest.

One of the grandest compositions of the time, a colossal setting of O fortunato giorno which he composed for a sumptuous intermedio intended for an aristocratic marriage, is for thirty separate vocal parts divided into seven spatially separated choirs.

The Thurzo family were in close relations with Polish King Zygmunt Stary, thus not surprisingly Bona Sforza stayed for a night on her way to the marriage in Kraków with Zygmunt Stary ( 1518 ). Thurzo's possessions were dissolved over time ( stripped of Mysłowice in 1536 ) and eventually, the land of Pszczyna was purchased by Baltazar Promnitz, bishop of Wroclaw under special regulation that no land shall be divided.

Thomas ' lands were divided on his death in 1483 and his daughter Eleanor inherited the manor of Aston Chiverey and through marriage the land became part of the estates of John Gage.

While their position on marriage remains divided the IYM has decided to include un-married gay partnerships in the ' family and relationships ' section of their forthcoming book of guidance ' Quaker Life – the Christian Experience of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland ' which is due for publication in 2012.

They divided their time between homes in Skagen and Copenhagen, and continued to travel extensively throughout their marriage.

Upon his return Masters was determined to end his marriage and he divided their home into two sections, half to each of them and refused to have anything to do with his wife in private — although they continued to appear as a couple in public.

Thai marriage ceremonies between Buddhists are generally divided into two parts: a Buddhist component, which includes the recitation of prayers and the offering of food and other gifts to monks and images of the Buddha, and a non-Buddhist component rooted in folk traditions, which centers on the couple's family.

Norway of the Viking Age was divided into petty kingdoms ruled by chiefs who contended for land, maritime supremacy or political ascendance and sought alliances or control through marriage with other royal families, either voluntary or forced.

The Arthurs appeared to have a strong marriage, but it was strained by both Chester's political activities, which took much of his time, and the divided loyalties of the Civil War.

" The court was, however, divided on the problem of the Marriage Act, which required a marriage officer to follow a formula which did not allow for same-sex marriage.

Consequently, Bahá ' ís were unable to obtain government identification documents ( such as national identification cards, birth certificates, death certificates, marriage or divorce certificates, or passports ) necessary to exercise their rights in their country unless they lied about their religion, which conflicts with Bahá ' í religious principle.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

The Netherlands was the first country to allow same-sex marriage, in 2001.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Mieszko I's marriage in 965 to the Czech Přemyslid princess Dobrawa and his baptism in 966 put him and his country in the cultural sphere of Western Christianity.

* 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

Forms of marriage consequently vary from country to country.

Peckinpah spent a great deal of his life in Mexico after his marriage to Palacios, eventually buying property in the country.

Whatever the circumstances were, the marriage failed, and Anne agreed to a peaceful annulment, assumed the title My Lady, the King's Sister, and received a massive divorce settlement, which included Richmond Palace, Hever Castle, and numerous other estates across the country.

Her sister Mary's marriage to Philip brought great contempt to the country, for many of her subjects despised Spain and Philip and feared that he would try to take complete control.

The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001.

** Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

* In John Cleland's Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Fanny goes from poor orphaned country girl to wealthy skilled courtesan eventually finding her one true love and retiring to marriage.

" When Goro tries to tell her about the Japanese law of marriage, Butterfly interrupts and tells him that the Japanese law is not the law of her country, the United States.

From the first Geoffrey Plantagenet tried to profit by his marriage and, after the death of Henry I ( 1 December 1135 ), laid the foundation of the conquest of Normandy by a series of campaigns: about the end of 1135 or the beginning of 1136 he entered that country and rejoined his wife, the countess Matilda, who had received the submission of Argentan, Domfront and Exmes.

For economic, political, humanitarian and pragmatic reasons, many states passed laws allowing a person to acquire their citizenship after birth ( such as by marriage to a national – jus matrimonii – or by having ancestors who are nationals of that country ), in order to reduce the scope of this category.

On January 30, 2003, Belgium became the second country in the world to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

* Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

Cardinal Jozef-Ernest van Roey, Archbishop of Mechelen, wrote an open letter to parish priests throughout the country announcing Leopold's second marriage on December 7.