Laws concerning Sexual Relations

¹³ “Suppose a man marries a woman but after going in to her dislikes her^(A)

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

²⁸ In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hates his own flesh, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

Samson Defeats the Philistines

15 After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing along a kid. He said, “I want to go into my wife’s room.” But her father would not allow him to go in. ² Her father said, “I was sure that you had rejected her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister prettier than she? Why not take her instead?”^(A)

Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce

24 “Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house;

³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.^(A)

²³ But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.