'Says' in the Bible

and the sign or the wonder which he spoke (foretold) to you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us follow after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve and worship them,’

Now if the servant says to you, ‘I will not leave you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is doing well with you;

and charges her [without cause] with shameful behavior and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’

Then the elders of his city will summon him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to marry her,’