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

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

²³ It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

³¹ Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹ When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

¹ But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

² Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

²⁸ Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;