Bible Verses About Wife

And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.

And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.

And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.

And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.

But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.

And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob,

Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.

And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:

And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.

And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was Thamar.

Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.