So they called Rebecca and asked, "Do you want to go with this man?" "Yes," she answered.

So they let Rebecca and her old family servant go with Abraham's servant and his men.

Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "There is nothing left for us to inherit from our father.

He treats us like foreigners. He sold us, and now he has spent all the money he was paid for us.

Bride of the king, listen to what I say--- forget your people and your relatives.

A priest's daughter who marries someone who is not a priest may not eat any of the sacred offerings.

But a widowed or divorced daughter who has no children and who has returned to live in her father's house as a dependent may eat the food her father receives as a priest. Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of it.

but those of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today.

Have reverence for the LORD your God and worship only him. Be faithful to him and make your promises in his name alone.

Instead, be faithful to the LORD, as you have been till now.

Bride of the king, listen to what I say--- forget your people and your relatives.

A good wife is her husband's pride and joy; but a wife who brings shame on her husband is like a cancer in his bones.

How hard it is to find a capable wife! She is worth far more than jewels!

When he arrived and saw how God had blessed the people, he was glad and urged them all to be faithful and true to the Lord with all their hearts.

You ask why he no longer accepts them. It is because he knows you have broken your promise to the wife you married when you were young. She was your partner, and you have broken your promise to her, although you promised before God that you would be faithful to her.

"I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel. "I hate it when one of you does such a cruel thing to his wife. Make sure that you do not break your promise to be faithful to your wife."

Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him by asking, "Does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife for whatever reason he wishes?"

And God said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.'

The Pharisees asked him, "Why, then, did Moses give the law for a man to hand his wife a divorce notice and send her away?"

I tell you, then, that any man who divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, commits adultery if he marries some other woman."

But in the beginning, at the time of creation, 'God made them male and female,' as the scripture says.

and the two will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one.

When they went back into the house, the disciples asked Jesus about this matter.

In the same way, a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man commits adultery."

A married woman, for example, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if he dies, then she is free from the law that bound her to him.

Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, "The two will become one body."

But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.

But because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.

but if she does, she must remain single or else be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not divorce his wife.

Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.

for we are members of his body.)

So I would prefer that the younger widows get married, have children, and take care of their homes, so as to give our enemies no chance of speaking evil of us.

In the same way you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands, so that if any of them do not believe God's word, your conduct will win them over to believe. It will not be necessary for you to say a word,

You should not use outward aids to make yourselves beautiful, such as the way you fix your hair, or the jewelry you put on, or the dresses you wear.

For the devout women of the past who placed their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful by submitting themselves to their husbands.

In the same way you husbands must live with your wives with the proper understanding that they are more delicate than you. Treat them with respect, because they also will receive, together with you, God's gift of life. Do this so that nothing will interfere with your prayers.