Thematic Bible: Wives obtained


Thematic Bible



So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and an homer and a half of barley: Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals


But Jacob fled into the land of Aram, and Israel served for his wife, and for his wife he was a pastor. Verse ConceptsSheepWagesIsrael FleeingOther Wivessyria

Moreover, I also take Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his place. Ye shall be witnesses of this today. Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningOffspringPurchasingTownWidowsNamed Wives

and watch with care, and when you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each one of you shall rapture a wife of the daughters of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin. And when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, we will say unto them, Be merciful unto us for their sakes because in the war we did not take enough women for all of them; and you could not have given them to them, or ye should be guilty now. And the sons of Benjamin did so and took themselves wives, according to their number, rapturing them from among those that danced; and they went and returned unto their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.