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Bible Verses About Wife

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  1. And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

  2. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

  3. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  4. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

  5. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.

  6. And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

  7. And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.

  8. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

  9. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

  10. Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

  11. For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

  12. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

  13. Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came.

  14. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

  15. And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

  16. And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.

  17. And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

  18. And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

  19. And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

  20. Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.

  21. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

  22. If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

  23. And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

  24. If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  25. And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.