¹³ If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

²³ And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.

³¹ Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

¹ If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

¹ Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.

² And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.

²⁸ Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

²⁹ For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;