And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.

Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me yet another seven years.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from Jehovah.

Houses and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Who can find a woman of strength? For her value is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband trusts safely in her, so that he shall have no lack of gain.

So I bought her for myself with fifteen pieces of silver, and with a homer and a half of barley.

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he kept sheep for a wife.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Let them be continually before Jehovah, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Your seed also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your womb like grains of sand; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before My face.

And it shall be in that day, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered, says Jehovah of Hosts. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

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

And I went in to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then Jehovah said to me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Yet you say, For what reason? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; and she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but prostitutes and adulterers God will judge.