Before revision: Also, an adulteress is not permitted to marry the adulterer, but (to avoid any doubt as to her status as being free to marry another or that of her children) many authorities say he must give her a divorce as if they were married.The Jewish Way in Love & Marriage, Rabbi Maurice Lamm, Harper & Row, San Francisco,1980 According to Judaism, the Seven laws of Noah apply to all of humankind; these laws prohibit adultery to non-Jews as well as Jews.Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Judges, Laws of Kings and Wars, Chapter 7 (Shabse Frankel edition, Jerusalem - B'nai B'rak, 5762 (c.2008, copyright 1998)) The extramarital intercourse of a married man is not in itself considered a crime in biblical or later Jewish law;Source=ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA, Second Edition, Volume 15 |section=Adultery|Author=Jeffrey Howard Tigay it was considered akin to polygyny, which was permitted.
After revision: Also, an adulteress is not permitted to marry the adulterer, but (to avoid any doubt as to her status as being free to marry another or that of her children) many authorities say he must give her a divorce as if they were married.The Jewish Way in Love & Marriage, Rabbi Maurice Lamm, Harper & Row, San Francisco,1980 According to Judaism, the Seven laws of Noah apply to all of humankind; these laws prohibit adultery to non-Jews as well as Jews.Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Judges, Laws of Kings and Wars, Chapter 7 (Shabse Frankel edition, Jerusalem - B'nai B'rak, 5762 (c.2008, copyright 1998)) The extramarital intercourse of a married man is not in itself considered a crime in biblical or later Jewish law;Source=ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA, Second Edition, Volume 15 "Adultery", Jeffrey H. Tigay it was considered akin to polygyny, which was permitted.