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Her feet go down to death;her steps follow the path to Sheol;
But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the Lord will forgive her.
And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, "I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you."
And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.
Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother."
But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.
She weeps bitterly in the night,with tears on her cheeks;among all her loversshe has none to comfort her;all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;they have become her enemies.
Jerusalem remembersin the days of her affliction and wanderingall the precious thingsthat were hers from days of old.When her people fell into the hand of the foe,and there was none to help her,her foes gloated over her;they mocked at her downfall.
The rod and reproof give wisdom,but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt
then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.