The next book in the Bible (Leviticus) is a book of Jewish laws.  I only found one reference to a woman--I may have missed one, but after reading all the laws and instructions concerning a woman's monthly period, I went brain dead.  The one woman mentioned was Shelomith--an Israelite--who married an Egyptian man.   (So much of the trouble God's people got into involved intermarriage with other nationalities--which was forbidden.)  Shelomith had a son that got into an altercation with a Hebrew man, and her son cursed and blasphemed God.  They brought Shelomith's son to Moses, who had the people stone him to death.  "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," was the law.  

The next woman mentioned was in the following book--Numbers.  Her name was Cozbi--a Midianite woman who married a Hebrew man named Zimre.  Once again, intermarriage was going to lead  to trouble.   The problem basically was that the people would stray from worshiping God.  They disobeyed all of his laws, including the laws concerning marriage and sexual conduct.  The grass was greener on the other side of the Hebrew fence.   

"The men of Israel began to commit whoredom with the daughters of other nations, the Midianites and Moabites, and to worship their gods."  So when Zimre brought one of their women home to his tent, Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron--who was the priest--took a javelin and ran it through Zimre and into Cozbi--killing both of them. 

Zimri was a smart man; he was the son of an Israelite tribal chief.  And he knew that 24,000 of his own people had already died of a plague because the men chose to worship idols that encouraged sexual orgies with foreign women. (Could it have been syphilis?) Zimri was wrong to flaunt his relationship by bringing a Midianite woman into the Israelite camp.

You remember that Moses married a Midianite woman named Zipporah when he fled from Egypt.  (She called Moses a "Bloody husband" because of the Hebrew ritual of circumcision.)  Perhaps Zimri thought that if Moses could marry a Midianite, then he could too.  But when Moses married, the law had not been given.  Now it was a different situation.  God had said "No" and Zimri didn't care what God thought.  

We may think we can flaunt God's instructions.  We should probably rethink that.