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Ask a QuestionFor I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."
He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,the only one of her mother,pure to her who bore her.The young women saw her and called her blessed;the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.
And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
I would lead you and bring youinto the house of my mother - she who used to teach me.I would give you spiced wine to drink,the juice of my pomegranate.
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
But Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.