<p class="poetry">You wrongly evict widows<n id="1" /> among my people from their cherished homes.p> <p class="poetry">You defraud their children<n id="2" /> of their prized inheritance.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be like women in your midst;p> <p class="poetry">the gates of your land will be wide open<n id="1" /> to your enemies;p> <p class="poetry">fire will consume<n id="2" /> the bars of your gates.<n id="3" />p>

Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.

<p class="bodytext">So after Abram had lived<n id="1" /> in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram&#8217;s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant,<n id="2" /> to her husband to be his wife.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, &#8220;She is my sister.&#8221;<n id="1" /> He was afraid to say, &#8220;She is my wife,&#8221; for he thought to himself,<n id="2" /> &#8220;The men of this place will kill me to get<n id="3" /> Rebekah because she is very beautiful.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there.<n id="1" /> As he blessed him,<n id="2" /> Isaac commanded him, &#8220;You must not marry a Canaanite woman.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely,<n id="1" /> but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman&#8217;s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.<n id="2" />

and if jealous feelings<n id="1" /> come over him and he becomes suspicious<n id="2" /> of his wife, when she is defiled;<n id="3" /> or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled &#8211;

Then the priest will have the woman stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, uncover the woman&#8217;s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.<n id="1" />

Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse<n id="1" /> and will say<n id="2" /> to the her, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> make you an attested curse<n id="3" /> among your people,<n id="4" /> if the <sc>Lordsc> makes<n id="5" /> your thigh fall away<n id="6" /> and your abdomen swell;<n id="7" />

or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

you must bring to your city gates<n id="1" /> that man or woman who has done this wicked thing &#8211; that very man or woman &#8211; and you must stone that person to death.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When a man is newly married, he need not go into<n id="1" /> the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to<n id="2" /> the wife he has married.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man&#8217;s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband&#8217;s brother must go to her, marry her,<n id="1" /> and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.<n id="2" />

Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, &#8220;Enter the prostitute&#8217;s house<n id="1" /> and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But his father and mother said to him, &#8220;Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our<n id="1" /> people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me,<n id="3" /> because she is the right one for me.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Sometime later, during the wheat harvest,<n id="1" /> Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride.<n id="2" /> He said to her father,<n id="3" /> &#8220;I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!&#8221;<n id="4" /> But her father would not let him enter.

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property<n id="1" /> so the name of the deceased might not disappear<n id="2" /> from among his relatives and from his village.<n id="3" /> You are witnesses today.&#8221;

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> raise up for you descendants<n id="1" /> from this woman to replace the one that she<n id="2" /> dedicated to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221; Then they would go to their<n id="3" /> home.

So Saul instructed his servants, &#8220;Find me a woman who is a medium,<n id="1" /> so that I may go to her and inquire of her.&#8221; His servants replied to him, &#8220;There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.&#8221;p>