The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to {her} husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of {her} husband.

Likewise, ye wives, {be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price {is} far above rubies.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet {is} she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

And unto the married I command, {yet} not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from {her} husband:

A virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.

If the priest's daughter also be {married} unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. {a stranger: Heb. a man a stranger}

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. {to speak...: Gr. for their railing}

And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God {are} alive every one of you this day.

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day. {But cleave...: or, For if ye will cleave, etc}

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, {Is there} yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: {but} he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. {neither...: Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him}

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one {was} Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, {Is there} yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives {taken} with the sword?

For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, {even} these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

The seven good kine {are} seven years; and the seven good ears {are} seven years: the dream {is} one.

Of the nations {concerning} which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: {for} surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told {it} me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told {it} my father nor my mother, and shall I tell {it} thee?

And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. {of his...: Heb. going out of his thigh}