Rights are for slaves. Slaves don't get married.

"Marriage" (for which there is no word in Hebrew, except perhaps in one specific form) is described, not named.

Marriage is an inheritance arrangement among many other things, but this vehicle is primarily necessary for to bring a line from Adam forward into the future. All lines not directly tracible to Adam are dead. There is a technique to "revive" a line in the Law of God as given to and through Moses, but we will lay that aside for now. Again retreating to the original description of Marriage (remembering that there IS NO WORD for it in Hebrew), all discussions of Adultery, Fornication, Sexual Sin (in general) and necessarily, Divorce (ker-ee-thooth'/כְּרִיתוּת) and the accompanying "sending away" (shaw-lakh'/שָׁלַח) are wrapped up in in the idea of BEING married and carrying forward an inheritance. The ideal qualifications for Marriage and exceptions to the rules of initial marriage are in many ways wrapped up in sin, since widowhood does not exist in a perfect world, and neither does a Divorce because Adultery would not exist either. The one word that may qualify as "Marriage" in Hebrew which pertains to a specific form seeks to address the event of Death and the failure to carry forward an inheritance. Jesus has this exception in his lineage. This brings into question the whole idea that ANY of us in the Western World, where taxation and legal intervention into marriage exist on a large scale, could even CALL ourselves married. Does this mean we live in Sin with our "So Called Marriages?" No, because the husband/wife relationship is described in many ways in the Old Testament that there isn't really any word for an initial marriage in the first place. We only find an English translation using the word in a phrase in Exodus 21 in describing secondary wives of slavery, and that is "Duty of Marriage", "Marital rights" or "Conjugal Rights". These all come from the Hebrew (o-naw'/עוֹנָה) that is poorly understood, but could be construed as "living together". Thus there are several forms of the Husband/Wife relationship where it is initially defined. A covenant or contractual spousal arrangement which is understood as marriage and understood to produce covenant children who inherit. Adultery is a TERRIBLE breach in this arrangement because it could produce a fraud in terms of an heir. There is a concubine, or wife of slavery, of whom sexual purity is expected while hitched to a husband, but is not necessary. Often a woman sold by her family into slavery was compromised already, and for this reason she brings a price to the family, but comes with no dowry and her children do not inherit. There is the "Spare Womb" concubine, the most prominent examples being Bilhah and Zilpah. Their children CAN inherit with the endorsement of the wife of marriage. Sarah offered Hagar to Abraham in an understandable show of "no faith." Later she does not claim Ishmael and he does not inherit. Rachel and Leah claim the children of Bilhah and Zilpah and their children are named as inheritors as a sort of extension of Rachel and Leah. There are the relationships of TOTAL slavery, and these are Governed by our Masters. You can keep your wife, but not as a free man. If you choose to go back to being a free man, if that path is available to you, your wife stays with your former Master after your period of indentured servitude is up. I should note at this point that the children of concubines who are not in a "spare womb" arrangement, go out with their mother from their father's house with gifts, but no inheritance in name or land. They are dispossessed and the relationship their mother was in was not Marriage. Examining our "Marriages" in this light, when one of our secular divorces occurs, and as is most often the case, the husband toils away and gives his substance to his masters and they in turn give this to their former wife who keeps the children, we are in a relationship of slave husband to slave wife serving a master, perhaps the lowest form of cohabitation there is. Comments are invited. Prove me wrong. Remember Hebrew translated to Greek and then to English does not make a relationship a marriage as defined Biblically. PS: I own a website I wish to develop and have for that reason proposed that this Blog will shut down. I'm not making progress beyond OWNING the website. For that reason I return here until I can set aside enough resources to develop it. This is posted on my Facebook page, and also over at the Modern Pharisee.