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Feminists are often critical of traditional marriage, and the NIV translation uses the potentially demeaning term to "pledged" rather than "engaged" to describe planned marriages in the Bible.  (The term "pledged" connotes a thing or a slave rather than a dignified person.)  The NIV says, for example, that Mary was "pledged to be married" rather than "engaged to be married."<ref>See Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:27 and 2:5.</ref>

Feminists are often critical of traditional marriage, and the NIV translation uses the potentially demeaning term to "pledged" rather than "engaged" to describe planned marriages in the Bible.  (The term "pledged" connotes a thing or a slave rather than a dignified person.)  The NIV says, for example, that Mary was "pledged to be married" rather than "engaged to be married."<ref>See Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:27 and 2:5.</ref>

There are about ten references to the NIV (1984) to "pledged" to be married rather than "engaged" to be married.  The 2010 translation to the NIV then added yet another:

There are about ten references to the NIV (1984) to "pledged" to be married rather than "engaged" to be married.  The 2010 translation to the NIV then added yet another use of "pledged", 1 Corinthians 7:27: "Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife."  The more respected [[NASB]] translation of that same passage is: "Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife."

== Other Examples ==

== Other Examples ==