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. that Nevertheless he 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. Gen. xxix, 22. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 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. 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 fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can 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. John ii, 1, 2. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of peo-Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage. Ruth iv, 11, 12. And all the ple 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 Beth-lehem: And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee 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. Çant. 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. 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. Judges xxl, 1. Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 1 Sam. xviii, 17, 21, 22, 25-27. And 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 band 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 witt David secretly, and say, Behol the king hath delight in thee, ad all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law, And Saul said, Thus shall ye may to David, The king desireth 4 skins of the Philistines, to be any dowry, but an hundred for avenged of the king's enemies fall by the hand of the Philistines But Saul thought to make Dari And when his servants told Dar these words, it pleased David W to be the king's son-in-law: and the days were not expired Wherefore David arose and weat he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; al David brought their foresk and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be t king's son-in-law. And San gave him Michal his daughter t wife. Dan. xi, 6, 17. And in the end years they shall join themselv together; for the king's daught of the south shall come to t king of the north to make s agreement..... He shall s set his face to enter with t strength of his whole kingde and upright ones with him; L shall he do: and he shail z him the daughter of west stand on his side, neither be corrupting her; but she shall him. DOWRY. Gen. xxix, 24. And Laban gay unto his daughter Leah, Zilje his maid for an handmaid, Gen. xxxi, 14-16, 43. And Rach and Leah answered and said u him, Is there yet any portion inheritance for us in our fall him strangers? for he hath & house? Are not we counte us, and hath quite devoured a our money. For all the r which God hath taken from father, that is ours, and our c dren's: now then, whatsoever is hath said unto thee, do. A Laban answered and said Jacob, These daughters are daughters, and these childre my children, and these cattie my cattle, and all that thou s is mine: and what can I do t day unto these my daughters unto their children which th have born? Gen. xxxiv, 12. Ask me Dev so much dowry and gift. a will give according as ye shall e to wife. anto me: but give me the damself unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of Josh, xv, 18, 19. And it came to my husband's brother. Then the pass, as she came unto him, that elders of his city shall call him, she moved him to ask of her fa- and speak unto him: and if he ther a field: and she lighted off stand to it, and say, I like not to Ar ass; and Caleb said unto her, take her; Then shall his brother's What wouldest thou? Who anwife come unto him in the preswered Give me a blessing; forence of the elders, and loose his thon best given me a south land; shoe from off his foot, and spit in give me also springs of water. his face, and shall answer and And he gave her the upper say, So shall it be done unto that rings,and the nether springs. man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 1 Kings ix, 16. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with re, and slain the Canaanites that ve in the city, and given it for pent unto his daughter, Solom' wife. Beca ili, 2. So I bought her to e for fifteen pieces of silver, and an homer of barley, and an alf bomer of barley. 2 Cor. xii 14. Behold, the third I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to get: for I seek not yours, but you: the children ought not to lay for the parents, but the parents the children. MARRIAGE OF BROTHER'S WIDOW. Ruth iv, 5,6,10,11. Then said Boaz, 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 inheritance, 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 dab said unto Onan, Go in unto By brother's wife, and marry her, nd raise up seed to thy brother. Luke xx, 28-33. Saying, Master, Den said Judah to Tamar his Moses wrote unto us, If any ghter-in-law, Remain a widow man's brother die, having a wife, thy father's honse, till Shelah and he die without children, that Bon be grown: (for he said, his brother should take his wife, peradventure he die also, as and raise up seed unto his brobrethren did.) And Tamar ther. There were therefore seven Fest and dwelt in her father's brethren: and the first took a wife, se. And it was told Tamar, and died without children. And nz, Behold thy father-in-law the second took her to wife, and eth up to Timnath to shear his he died childless. And the third p. And she put her widow's took her; and in like manner the ments off from her, and cover-seven also: and they left no chilber with a vail, and wrapped elf and sat in an open place, ich is by the way to Timnath; r she saw that Shelah was on, and she was not given Lim to wife. | Deut. XXV, 5-10. If brethren well together, and one of them and have no child, the wife of head shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband's ther shall go in unto her, and Be her to him to wife, and per the duty of an husband's rer unto her. And it shall be, let the first-born which she bere shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that Mh came be not put out of Israel. As if the man like not to take la brother's wife, then let his Wuther's wife go up to the gate Acto the elders, and say, My husland's brother refuseth to raise up dren, and died. Last of all the the resurrection whose wife of woman died also. Therefore in them is she? for seven had her to wife. MISCELLANEOUS. and Sarah were old, and well Gen. xviii, 11. Now Abraham stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner 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 his 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 lle 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 time 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 un clean. 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 things shall be unclean, and shall the uncleanness of her separation. And whosoever toucheth those wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. But if she be cleansed of 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. And 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 they defile my tabernacle that is him that hath an issue, and of him among them. This is the law of whose seed goeth from him, and is deled therewith; And of her 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. Lev. xx, 18. And if a man shail lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness, he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. Deut. xxii, 13-20. If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, the captives a beautiful woman, for the damsel. 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 nations 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 abominationg wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remat nor escaping? O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before the in our trespasses; for we cannot stand before thee because of this Ezra x, 18, 19, 44. And ammoniz the sons of the priests there were wives; namely, of the sons o found that had taken strange Jeshua the son of Jozadak, his brethren; Maaseiah, ari Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedalist And they gave their hands the they would put away their wive and, being guilty, they offered i ram of the flock for their trespas All these had taken strange wives and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Neh. x, 30. And that we won!/ people of the land, nor take the not give our daughters unto t daughters for our sons. Neh. xiii, 23-28. In those day also saw I Jews that had marrie wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, en of Moab: And their childr Judges ili, 5, 6. And the chil- spake half in the speech of A dren of Israel dwelt among the do, and could not speak in the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amo-the language of each people. A Jews' language, but according 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. Ezra ix, 1,2, 12-15. Now, when that is come upon us for our evil cursed them, and smote certain the sons of Jolada, the sou Mal. il, 11, 12. Judah hath da tion is committed in Israel treacherously, and an aton Jerusalem; for Judah hath f faned the 'holiness of the which he loved, and hath marr the daughter of a strange e The LORD will cut off the that doeth this, the master a the scholar, out of the tabernst of Jacob, and him that offeret. offering unto the Lon of boets. DUTIES OF HUSBANDS. Prov. v, 15-19. Drink waters of thine own cistern; and runna, Waters out of thine own well. I come abroad unto all women, so Let thy fountains be dispersed that they shall despise their husd, and rivers of waters in bands in their eyes, when it shall streets. Let them be only be reported, The king Ahasuerus ite own, and not strangers' commanded Vashti the queen to th thee. Let thy fountain be be brought in before him, but she ed; and rejoice with the wife came not. Likewise shall the by youth. Let her be as the ladies of Persia and Media say blad and pleasant roe; let this day unto all the king's princes, breasts satisfy thee at all which have heard of the deed of and be thou ravished al- the queen. Thus shall there arise is with her love. too much contempt and wrath. Fx 17, 29. The merciful If it please the king, let there go a deth good to his own soul: royal commandment from him, that is cruel troubleth his and let it be writtten among the flesh. He that troubleth his laws of the Persians and the hotse shall inherit the wind; Medes, that it be not altered, That fool shall be servant to the Vashti come no more before king heart. Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. And when the make, shall be published throughking's decree, which he shall out all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small. And the saying pleas ed the king and the princes: and 9. Live joyfully with e whom thou lovest all the of the life of thy vanity, be hath given thee under all the days of thy vanity: bat is thy portion in this life, In thy labour which thou under the sun. vil, 29, 33. But this, I brethren, the time is short: it beth, that both they that wives be as though they had But he that is married for the things that are of l, how he may please his 28, 33. So ought men to Reir wives as their Own he that loveth his wife Limself. Nevertheless, let e of you in particular so wife even as himself; and le see that she reverence the king did according to the word of Memucan. P3. xlv, 10. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline 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 obedience, as also saith the law. Aud 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 hushusband 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 the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. selves unto your own husbands, Col. iii, 18. Wives, submit your as it is fit in the Lord. not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, 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 ii, 4, 5. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Gen. xxi, 12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah 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 hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. Esther 1, 10-12. On the seventh manded Mehuman, Biztha, Harday, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he combona, Bigtha, and Zethar, Cascas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, To Abagtha, bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown-royal, to her beauty; for she was fair to shew the people and the princes look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberthe king lains: therefore was very wroth, and his anger burned in lim. 1 Tim. ii, 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 Prov. xxxi, 23. Her husband is Eve. And Adam was not de-known in the gates, when he ceived; but the woman, being sitteth among the elders of the deceived, was in the transgres- land. sion. that are in all the pro- 1 Peter iii, 1, 2, 5, 6. Likewise, of the king Ahasuerus. ye wives, be in subjection to your GOOD WIVES. Gen. xxiv, 67. And Isaac deed of the queen shall Town husbands; that if any obey 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. Prov. xi, 16. A gracious woman retaineth honour; and strong men retain riches. Prov. xviil, 22. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. Prov. xxxi. 10-12, 28--31. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth he said, Let Asher be blessed with Job v, 24. And thou shalt know Job xix, 17. My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. Ruth iii, 1. Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? 1 Sam. 1, 4. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions. Ps. cxvill, 15. The voice of re Exod. xix, 15. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. Lev. xv, 18. The woman also with whom man shall lie w seed of copulation, they shall b bathe themselves in water, and t unclean until the even. 1 Sam. 1, 19. And they rose up in the morning early, and wo shipped before the LORD, 51 returned, and came to their hor to Ramah: and Elkanah k Hannah his wife; and the Lo remembered her. 1 Sam. xxi, 4, 5. And the pris answered David, and said, The.c is no common bread under miss hand; but there is hallowed bread if the young men have kept the AB selves at least from women. David answered the priest, an said unto him, of a truth wen the LORD, she shall be praised.joicing and salvation is in the have been kept from us ab Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. BAD WIVES. 2 Sam. vi, 16. And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 1 Kings xi, 4. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 1 Kings xxi, 25. But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. Prov. xix, 13. A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. Prov. xxi, 9, 19. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry wo man. Prov. xxv, 24. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman, and in a wide house. Prov. xxvii, 15, 16. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike, Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself. tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. Ps. cxxvill, 3, 4. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. Prov. iii, 33. The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. Gen. iv, 25. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew! Gen. xxix, 21. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. Gen. xxx, 15, 16. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes. And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in have unto me; for surely I hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. Gen. xxxviii, 1, 2. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adul lamite, whose name was Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, Deut. xxxiii, 24. And of Asher, and went in unto her. SUNDRIES. these three days, since I came co and the vessels of the young as are holy, and the bread is in manner common, yea, the it were sanctified this day in a vessel. 2 Sam. xi, 9-11. But Uriah sep at the door of the king's h with all the servants of his s and went not down to his bos And when they had told Day. saying, Uriah went not down his house, David said unto Cr Camest thou not from thy jours-i why then didst thou not go des unto thine house? And Cri said unto David, The ark, and 1 rael, and Judah, abide in t and my lord Joab, and the >vants of my lord, are encarre in the open fields; shall I thea into mine house, to eat and drink, and to lie with my w thou livest, and as thy soul Live I will not do this thing. 2 Sam. xil, 24. And David cut forted Bath-sheba his wife, went in unto her, and lay wi her: and she bare a son, an! called his name Solomon, and i LORD loved him. Esther iv, 11. All the king'ar vants, and the people of the k provinces, do know, that wh ever, whether man or wa shall come unto the king in*. inner court, who is not c. there is one law of his to pi to death, except such tw the king shall hold on the g sceptre, that he may live have not been called to in unto the king these days. 1 Cor. vii, 3-6. Le, the ħus render unto the wite due » lence: and likewise also than i unto the husband. The wife n not power of her own betr the husband; and lew |