Bible Verses About Wife

Adonai, God, said, “It isn’t good that the person should be alone. I will make for him a companion suitable for helping him.”

The man-person said, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She is to be called Woman , because she was taken out of Man .”

This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and stick with his wife, and they are to be one flesh.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. You will bring forth children in pain. Your desire will be toward your husband, but he will rule over you.”

Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, three measures of the best flour! Knead it and make cakes."

ADONAI saw that Le'ah was unloved, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.

Le'ah conceived and gave birth to a son, whom she named Re'uven [see, a son!], for she said, "It is because ADONAI has seen how humiliated I have been, but now my husband will love me."

She conceived again, gave birth to a son and said, "It is because ADONAI has heard that I am unloved; therefore he has given me this son also." So she named him Shim'on [hearing].

Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "We no longer have any inheritance from our father's possessions;

and he considers us foreigners, since he has sold us; moreover, he has consumed everything he received in exchange for us.

Nevertheless, the wealth which God has taken away from our father has become ours and our children's anyway; so whatever God has told you to do, do."

Sh'khem spoke with his father Hamor and said, "Get this girl for me; I want her to be my wife."

When Ya'akov heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Ya'akov restrained himself until they came.

Hamor the father of Sh'khem went out to Ya'akov to speak with him

just as Ya'akov's sons were coming in from the field. When they heard what had happened, the men were saddened and were very angry at the outrage this man had committed against Isra'el by raping Ya'akov's daughter, something that is simply not done.

But Hamor said to them, "My son Sh'khem's heart is set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife;

and intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

You will live with us, and the land will be available to you - you'll live, do business and acquire possessions here."

Y'hudah took a wife for 'Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, "What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!"

"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to go free like the men-slaves.

If her master married her but decides she no longer pleases him, then he is to allow her to be redeemed. He is not allowed to sell her to a foreign people, because he has treated her unfairly.

If he has her marry his son, then he is to treat her like a daughter.

If he marries another wife, he is not to reduce her food, clothing or marital rights.

If he fails to provide her with these three things, she is to be given her freedom without having to pay anything.