Thematic Bible: Not to be given in marriage considered a calamity


Thematic Bible



And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.

Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.

Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain