Genesis 34:1

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;

Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.

Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.

Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

“ ‘ “All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.