Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you h
When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the e
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name woul
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.