24 Bible Verses about Giving In Marriage
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Jesus said, The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
The girl's father shall say to the elders: I gave my daughter to be this man's wife, but he turned against her.
Laban answered: It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me.
Jacob said to Laban: Give me my wife for the time is completed. I want to marry Rachel now!
Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you will have to work for me another seven years.
Hamor said to him: My son Shechem has fallen in love with your daughter. Please let him marry her.
Ask anything as the bride price, no matter how expensive. I will do anything. Just let me marry Dinah.
She realized that Shelah was now a grown man. She had not been allowed to marry him. So she decided to dress in something other than her widow's clothes and to cover her face with a veil. Then she sat outside the town of Enaim on the road to Timnah.
Judah recognized them and said: She is more righteous than I, since I would not give her to my son Shelah. He did not sleep with her again.
Moses sent his wife Zipporah and her two sons to stay with Jethro. Jethro welcomed them. Moses was still a foreigner in Midian when his first son was born. Moses said: I will name him Gershom. When his second son was born, Moses said: I will name him Eliezer, because the God my father worshiped has saved me from the king of Egypt.read more.
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law brought Moses' sons and wife to Moses in the desert. He was camped near the mountain of God.
Caleb said: I will give Achsah my daughter in marriage to the man who captures it and kills Kirjath-sepher. Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Caleb said: He that attacks Kirjath-sepher, and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife. Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
They said to each other: Look how he keeps coming out to insult us. The king offers a big reward to the man who kills Goliath. That man will even get to marry the king's daughter. No one in his family will ever have to pay taxes again.
David and his men killed two hundred Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him. This was so he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.
Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying: The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying: 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife.' A beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.
When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah.
Leah said: God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband. So she named him Issachar.
Let there be the girl to whom I say: 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers: 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' May she be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loving-kindness to my master.
And she will say to me, You drink, and I will draw for your camels also, let her be the woman whom Jehovah has appointed for my master's son.'
Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go. Let her be the wife of your master's son, as Jehovah has spoken.
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.
