Leviticus 10:10-11
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10 You are to (A)distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, 11 and (B)you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”
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1 Samuel 8:6
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6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 8:11-18
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11 He said, (A)“These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: (B)he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some (C)to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 (D)He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. 16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, (E)but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
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- 1 Samuel 8:16 Septuagint cattle
1 Timothy 2:12
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12 (A)I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
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Titus 1:5-7
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Qualifications for Elders
5 (A)This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and (B)appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 (C)if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,[a] and his children are believers[b] and not open to the charge of (D)debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer,[c] (E)as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not (F)be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent (G)or greedy for gain,
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Titus 2:3-5
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3 (A)Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, (B)not slanderers (C)or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, (D)pure, (E)working at home, kind, and (F)submissive to their own husbands, (G)that the word of God may not be reviled.
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1 Corinthians 11:5
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5 but every wife[a] who prays or (A)prophesies (B)with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same (C)as if her head were shaven.
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- 1 Corinthians 11:5 In verses 5–13, the Greek word gunē is translated wife in verses that deal with wearing a veil, a sign of being married in first-century culture
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