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man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

Exod. vi, 23-25. And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites. And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers

of the Levites, according to their

families.

Judges xv, 1. But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber.

Judges xxi, 14. And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had Saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

1 Kings iv, 11. The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife.

1 Kings xi, 19. And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

1 Chron. xxiii, 22. And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.

ye stay for them from having
husbands? nay, my daughters; for
it grieveth me much for your
sakes, that the hand of the LORD
is gone out against me.

Jer. xxix, 6. Take ye wives, and
beget sons and daughters; and
take wives for your sons, and give
your daughters to husbands, that
they may bear sons and daughters;
that ye may be increased there,
and not diminished.

1 Cor. vii, 2 9, 35. Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every
man have his own wife, and let
every woman have her own hus-
band. But if they cannot contain,
let them marry: for it is better to
marry than to burn. And this I

speak for your own profit, not that
I may cast a snare upon you, but
for that which is comely, and that
ye may attend upon the Lord
without distraction.

1 Tim. iv, 8. Forbidding to
marry......

1 Tim. v, 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Heb. xiii, 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undeflied: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

CAUTIONS.

camest? And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

ed Jacob, and blessed him, and Gen. xxvii. 1, 2. And Isaac callcharged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the

daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

spake unto his father Hamor, Gen. xxxiv, 4. And Shechem saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

Gen. xxxviii, 6. And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, whose name was Tamar.

Exod. ii, 21. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

Judges xiv, 1-3. And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therehis father and his mother said fore get her for me to wife. Then unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, me well. For Get her for me; for she pleaseth

Jer. xvi, 2. Thou shalt not take
thee a wite, neither shalt thou
have sons or daughters in this
place.

1 Cor. vil, 1, 7, 8, 26, 32, 33. Now
concerning the things whereof ve
wrote unto me: It is good for a
man not to touch a woman.
I would that all men were even
as I myself; but every man hath

Prov. xix, 14. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers; and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Hosca 1, 2, 3. The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whore-his doms, and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a

son.

Luke xvii, 26. 27. And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they muried wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

ITS CONTINUANCE AS AN
ORDINANCE.

Judges xxi, 16. Then the elders of the congregation said, How

shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Ruth 1, 13. Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would

proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the uumarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress; I say, that it is good for a man so to be. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

PARENTAL AUTHORITY.

Gen. xxiv, 4, 5, 37. 38. But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou

had no sons, but daughters. And 1 Chron. ii, 34, 35. Now Sheshan Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name cas Jarha. And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wite; and she bare him Attai.

2 Chron. xxv, 18. And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying. The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy dangliter to my son to wife: and there pissed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

APOSTOLIC LAW.

1 Cor. vii, 27, 28. 36 38. Art thou bound unto a wite? seek not to be loosed. Art thon loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you. But if any man

think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not; let them marry. Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath

so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

NUPTIAL FEAST.

Gen. xxiv, 60. And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those

which hate them.

the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Jer. xvi, 9. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Jer. xxv, 10. Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth. and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the

candle.

him the disciples of John, saying, Matth. ix, 14, 15. Then came to Why do we and the Pharisees Gen. xxix, 22. And Laban gath-fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? ered together all the men of the And Jesus said unto them, Can place, and made a feast. the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Judges xiv, 10, 11. So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Kuth iv, 11, 12. And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel, and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel; and

do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give ace of this young woman.

Ps. xlv, 9, 14, 15. Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought; they shall enter into the King's palace.

Cant. iii, 11. Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned

him in the day of his espousals. and in the day of the gladness of

his heart.

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John ii, 1, 2. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.

MARRIAGES OF POLICY.

Gen. xxix, 23, 25, 26. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. And it came to pass. that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? And Laban said. It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.

Josh. xv, 16, 17. And Caleb said and taketh it, to him will I give He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher Achsah my daughter to wife. And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achisah his daughter to

wife.

Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, sayJudges xxi, 1. Now the men of ing, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

1 Sam. xviii, 17, 21, 22, 25-27And Saul said to David, Behold, will I give thee to wife; only be my elder daughter Merab, her thon valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles: for Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be

upon him. And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law in the one of the twain. And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say. Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. fall by the hand of the Philistines. But Saul thought to make David

And when his servants told David to be the king's son-in-law: and these words, it pleased David well the days were Wherefore David arose and went, not expired. he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men: and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

Dan. xi, 6, 17. And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. . . . . . He shall also set his face to enter with the

strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, stand on his side, neither be for corrupting her; but she shall not him.

DOWRY.

Gen. xxix. 24. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah, Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.

Gen. xxxi, 14-16. 43. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's him strangers? for he hath sold house? Are not we counted of us, and hath quite devoured also which God hath taken from our our money. For all the riches father, that is ours, and our chil dren's: now then, whatsoever God Laban answered and said unto hath said unto thee, do. Aud Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

Gen. xxxiv, 12. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say

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Josh. xv, 18, 19. And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that

she moved him to ask of her fa

ther a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs,and the nether springs.

1 Kings ix, 16. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

Hosea i 2. So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half-homer of barley.

2 Cor. xii 14. Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents

for the children.

MARRIAGE OF BROTHER'S WIDOW.

unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her, Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shail be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

Ruth iv, 5,6.10,11. Then said Bonz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

And the kinsman

said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it. Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his isheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this in the gate, and the elders, said, day. And all the people that were

We are witnesses.

Gen. xxxviii, 8. 11, 13. 14. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother, Luke xx, 28-33. Saying, Master, Then said Judah to Tamar his Moses wrote unto us, If any daughter-in-law, Remain a widowman's brother die, having a wife, at thy father's house, till Shelah and he die without children, that my son be grown: (for he said, his brother should take his wife, Lest peradventure he die also, as and raise up seed unto his brohis brethren did) And Tamarther. There were therefore seven went and dwelt in her father's brethren; and the first took a wife, house. And it was told Tamar, and died without children. And saying, Behold thy father-in-law the second took her to wife, and goeth up to Timnath to shear his he died childless. And the third sheep. And she put her widow's took her; and in like manner the garments off from her, and coverseven also: and they left no chiled her with a vail, and wrapped dren, and died. Last of all the herself, and sat in an open place, the resurrection whose wife of woman died also. Therefore in which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was them is she? for seven had her to grown, and she was not given to him to wife.

Deut. xxv, 5-10. If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the first-born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise upl

wife.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Gen. xviii, 11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Gen. xxxi, 34, 35. Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

Lev. xv, 19-33. And if a woman

have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days; and whosoever

toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash bis clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. And

if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the timo of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her

separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. And whosoever toucheth those

things shall be unclean, and shall

And

wash his clothes, and bathe himthe even. But if she be cleansed of self in water, and be unclean until her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her her uncleanness. Thus shall ye before the LORD for the issue of separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when among them. This is the law of they defile my tabernacle that is him that hath an issue, and of him is defiled therewith; And of her whose seed goeth from him, and that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

discovered her

lie with a woman having her sickLev. xx, 18. And if a man shall ness, and shall uncover her nakedfountain, and she hath uncovered ness, he hath the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Deut. xxii, 13-20. If any man

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take a wife, and go in unto her, ant hate her, And give occisions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and sty, I took this woman, and wher I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the datnsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he bateth her; And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver; and give them Unto the father of the damsel, be

cause he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he may not put her away all his days. But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found

for the damsel.

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the captives a beautiful woman,
and hast a desire unto her, that
thou wouldest have her to thy
wife. And she shall put the rai-
ment of her captivity from off her.
and shall remain inthinehouse,and
bewail her father and her mother
a full month: and after that thou
shalt go in unto her, and be her
husband, and she shall be thy
wife. And it shall be, if thou have
no delight in her, then thou shalt
let her go whither she will; but
thou shalt not sell her at all for
money, thou shalt not make mer-
chandise of her, because thou
hast humbled her.

Josh. xxiii, 12, 13. Else, if ye do
in any wise go back, and cleave
unto the remnant of these nations,
even these that remain among
you, and shall make marriges with
them, and go in unto them, and
they to you: Know for a certainty,
that the LORD your God will no
more drive out any of these na-
tions from before you; but they
shall be snares and traps unto
you, and scourges in your sides,
and thorns in your eyes, until ye
perish from off this good land
which the LORD your God hath
given you.

the people of these abominations? ouldest not thon be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? O LORD God of Israel, thou art sig teous; for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespas es; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

the sons of the priests there were Ezra x, 18. 19, 44. And among found that had taken strange wives; namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his

brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, aud Jarib, and Gedaliah. And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and, being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass. All these bad taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Neh. x, 30. And that we would people of the land, nor take their not give our daughters unto the daughters for our sons.

Neh. xiii, 23-28 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and

of Moab: And their children

Judges ill, 5, 6. And the chil- spake half in the speech of Ashdren of Israel dwelt among the dod, and could not speak in the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amo-the language of each people. And Jews' language, but according to rites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of

them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your Ezra ix, 1, 2, 12-15. Now, when daugliters unto their sons, nor these things were done, the take their daughters unto your princes came to me, saying, The sons, or for yourselves. Dii not people of Israel, and the priests, Solomon king of Israel sin by and the Levites, have not separat- these things? yet among many ed themselves from the people nations was there Do king like of the lands, doing according to him, who was beloved of his God, their abominations, eren of the and God made him king over all Canaanites, the Hittites, the Israel; nevertheless even him did Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Am-outlandish women cause to sin. monites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons; so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands; yea, the hand of the princes and rulers have been chief in this trespass. Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever, that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. And after all

RESTRICTIONS UNDER JEW- that is come upon us for our evil
ISH LAW.

Deut. xxi. 10, 11, 13, 14. When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, And seest among I

deeds, and for our great trespass.
seeing that thou our God hast
punished us less than our iniqui-
ties deserve, and hast given us
such deliverance as this; Should
we again break thy command-
ments, and join in affinity with

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Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God, in marrying strange wives? And one of the sons of Jolada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was sonin-law to Sanballat the Horouite: therefore I chased him from me.

Mal. ii, 11, 12. Judah hath dealt ign is committed in Israel and in treacherously, and an abominaJerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married The LORD will cut off the man the daughter of a strange god. that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

DUTIES OF HUSBANDS. Prov. v, 15-19. Drink waters out of thine own cistern; and running

waters ont of thine own well. I come abroad unto all women, so
Let thy fountains be dispersed that they shall despise their hus-
abroad, and rivers of waters in bands in their eyes, when it shall
thy streets. Let them be only be reported, The king Ahasuerus
thine own, and not strangers' commanded Vashti the queen to
with thee. Let thy fountain bebe brought in before him, but she
blessed; and rejoice with the wife came not. Likewise shall the
of thy youth. Let her be as the ladies of Persia and Media say
loving hind and pleasant roe; let this day unto all the king's princes,
her breasts satisfy thee at all which have heard of the deed of
times; and be thou ravished al. the queen. Thus shall there arise
ways with her love.
too much contempt and wrath.
If it please the king, let there go a
royal commandment from him,
and let it be writtten among the
laws of the Persians and the
Medes, that it be not altered, That
Vashti come no more before king
Ahasuerus; and let the king give
her royal estate unto another that
is better than she. And when the
king's decree, which he shall
make, shall be published through-
out all his empire. (for it is great,)
husbands honour, both to great
all the wives shall give to their
and small. And the saying pleas;
ed the king and the princes: and
the king did according to the word
of Memucan.

Prov. xl. 17. 29. The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Eccles xi. 9. Live joyfully with the wife whop thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

1 Cor. vii, 29, 33. But this, I say, brethren, the time is short: it remineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had

none;

Ps. xlv, 10. Hearken, O daugh

not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste couversation coupled with fear. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in Go, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Titus il, 4, 5. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. To be dis creet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husband's, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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Gen. xxi, 12. And God said unto

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DUTIES OF THE WIFE. Gen. ill, 16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Esther 1, 15-21. What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to thing only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus For this deed of the queen shall

thine ear; forget also thine own
people, and thy father's house.

1 Cor. xi. 8, 9. For the man is
not of the woman; but the woman
of the man. Neither was the man
created for the woman; but the

woman for the man.

1 Cor. xiv, 34, 35. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedice, as also saith the law. And If they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Eph. v, 22-24. Wives, submit
yourselves unto your own hus-
husband is the head of the wife,
bands, as unto the Lord. For the

even as Christ is the head of the
church; and he is the saviour of

and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Surah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

1 Sam. xxv, 19, 26. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own han, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Esther i 10--12. On the seventh

and

manded Mehuman, Biztha, Har day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he combona, Bigtha, Abigin, Zethar, Cascas, the seven cham berlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown-royal, to your-shew the people and the princes

the body. Therefore as the church
is subject unto Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in
every thing.

Col. iii, 18. Wives, submit
selves unto your own husbands,

as it is fit in the Lord.

1 Tim. il, 11-14. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgresSion.

1 Peter iii. 1, 2, 5, 6. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that if any obey

her beauty; for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

Prov. xxxi, 23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

GOOD WIVES.

Gen. xxiv, 67. And Isaao brought her into his mother

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