¹ Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

²¹ And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

¹⁶ So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?

²⁰ Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

⁵ For even his brothers had no belief in him.

⁴⁸ But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?

³⁶ And a man will be hated by those of his house.

¹⁴ A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.

¹⁶ Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

⁴⁵ And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

¹⁵ But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

⁶ So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

⁷ And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;

⁸ It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,

⁹ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

³⁵ And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.

³⁷ And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

³ And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;