He had sexual relations with his wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim<n id="1" /> named him Beriah because tragedy had come to his family.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">And Adam had marital relations<n id="1" /> with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, &#8220;God has given<n id="2" /> me another child<n id="3" /> in place of Abel because Cain killed him.&#8221;

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew<n id="1" /> Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired<n id="2" /> in Haran, and they left for<n id="3" /> the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.p>

<p class="bodytext">After Isaac<n id="1" /> had been there a long time,<n id="2" /> Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed<n id="3" /> Isaac caressing<n id="4" /> his wife Rebekah.

<p class="bodytext">When Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadad<n id="1" /> reigned in his place; the name of his city was Pau.<n id="2" /> His wife&#8217;s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.p>

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do<n id="1" /> such a great evil and sin against God?&#8221;

then<n id="1" /> the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion,<n id="2" /> a grain offering for remembering,<n id="3" /> for bringing<n id="4" /> iniquity to remembrance.p>

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.

<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>

But his wife said to him, &#8220;If the <sc>Lordsc> wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us.<n id="1" /> He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.&#8221;p>

<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.

The Philistines asked,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who did this?&#8221; They were told,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Samson, the Timnite&#8217;s son-in-law, because the Timnite<n id="3" /> took Samson&#8217;s<n id="4" /> bride and gave her to his best man.&#8221; So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father.<n id="5" />

and keep your eyes open.<n id="1" /> When you see<n id="2" /> the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration,<n id="3" /> jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us,<n id="1" /> we&#8217;ll say to them, &#8220;Do us a favor and let them be,<n id="2" /> for we could not get each one a wife through battle.<n id="3" /> Don&#8217;t worry about breaking your oath!<n id="4" /> You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

(Now the man&#8217;s name was Elimelech,<n id="1" /> his wife was Naomi,<n id="2" /> and his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion.<n id="3" /> They were of the clan of Ephrath<n id="4" /> from Bethlehem in Judah.) They entered the region of Moab and settled there.<n id="5" />

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.

<p class="bodytext">Saul sent messengers to David&#8217;s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David&#8217;s wife Michal told him, &#8220;If you do not save yourself<n id="1" /> tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!&#8221;

Why have you shown contempt for the word of the <sc>Lordsc> by doing evil in my<n id="1" /> sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own!<n id="2" /> You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

His wife Jezebel said to him, &#8220;You are the king of Israel!<n id="1" /> Get up, eat some food, and have a good time.<n id="2" /> I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Haman&#8217;s<n id="1" /> wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, &#8220;Have a gallows seventy-five feet<n id="2" /> high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented.&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.p>