²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.^(A)”

Samson’s Vengeance on the Philistines

15 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest,^(A) Samson^(B) took a young goat^(C) and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.”^(D) But her father would not let him go in.

Joseph Accepts Jesus as His Son

¹⁸ This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about^[a]: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.^(A)

¹⁶ Not realizing^(A) that she was his daughter-in-law,^(B) he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”^(C)

“And what will you give me to sleep with you?”^(D) she asked.

⁴¹ It was like this for the twenty years^(A) I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters^(B) and six years for your flocks,^(C) and you changed my wages^(D) ten times.^(E)