Laws of Sexual Morality

¹³ “If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and ^(A)detests her,

²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may ^(A)go in to her.”

²⁸ So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

Samson Defeats the Philistines

15 After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a ^(A)young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.

² Her father said, “I really thought that you thoroughly ^(B)hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, take her instead.”

Law Concerning Divorce

24 “When a ^(A)man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some ^[a]uncleanness in her, and he writes her a ^(B)certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house,

The Children of Jacob

³¹ When the Lord ^(A)saw that Leah was ^[a]unloved, He ^(B)opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

²³ Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.