² When he returned home, he told his father and mother, “A young Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye. I want to marry her. Get her for me.”

⁴ He said to his father, Hamor, “Get me this young girl. I want to marry her.”

² One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, “Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh. ³ Swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.

²¹ and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.

⁹ But King Jehoash of Israel replied to King Amaziah of Judah with this story: “Out in the Lebanon mountains, a thistle sent a message to a mighty cedar tree: ‘Give your daughter in marriage to my son.’ But just then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and stepped on the thistle, crushing it!

⁶ In the course of time, Judah arranged for his firstborn son, Er, to marry a young woman named Tamar.