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

And it shall be, {that} the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother {which is} dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear {of it}, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

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 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept {sheep}.

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

House and riches {are} the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife {is} from the LORD.

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

The face of the LORD {is} against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, {that} I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

So I bought her to me for fifteen {pieces} of silver, and {for} an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: {half...: Heb. lethech}

Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

And it shall be, {that} the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother {which is} dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled {it} on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same {is} the father of the Moabites unto this day.

And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, {and be} with you, till I know what God will do for me.

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.