² Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”^(A)

⁴ So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.”^(A)

² Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,^{(A) 3} and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,^(B)

²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.^(A)

⁹ King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.^(A)

⁶ Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar.