¹⁰ Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.

⁶ It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

¹⁴ Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

² It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

¹² Jacob fled into the country of Aram, And Israel served to get a wife, And for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

¹⁹ your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

² and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

³ I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, Call his name Maher Shalal Hash Baz.

¹⁰ Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

²² Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.

¹⁵ Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

¹⁶ Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?

²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

¹⁸ Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

¹⁹ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."