ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

² These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁸ And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁹ And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁸ But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³¹ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²¹ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁹ Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁶ All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁹ And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³ If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, married, then his wife shall go out with him.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

² And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁵ And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, scarlet, and of fine linen.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁹ The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³ And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁸ And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁵ Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁴ And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁷ And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ 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: 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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, 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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹ And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁹ And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹ But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, harlot, and went in unto her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ And the Levite, Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²¹ Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁰ And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁶ Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ 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 famous in Beth-lehem:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁹ And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁹ And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁸ And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³ So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁷ Wherefore David arose and went, 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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴⁰ And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²¹ And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

³ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁴ And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁰ And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²² Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁶ And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ He was a widow's widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁷ And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹ Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹ Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²³ And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁸ And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

² And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁷ For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹² Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve twelve months, according to the manner of the women, for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹³ Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁵ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁰ Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁹ So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹¹ When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁴ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴⁴ Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

¹⁷ 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, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.