¹ And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

² There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the `sons' of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

⁴⁶ Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,

⁴³ On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, `Be following me.'

¹⁴ House and wealth `are' the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah `is' an understanding wife.

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

¹ And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

² in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

³ forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

³² this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

³³ but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

³⁵ On the morrow, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,

²⁹ on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

⁴⁶ And while he was yet speaking to the multitudes, lo, his mother and brethren had stood without, seeking to speak to him,

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.

¹¹ The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

¹² She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.

²² `Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

² The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.

³ Thy wife `is' as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

⁴ Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

²⁸ and Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, unto great Zidon;

¹⁸ And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

¹⁹ And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that `is' its name.

²⁰ And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper -- as his counterpart.

²¹ And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead.

²² And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

²³ and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

²⁴ therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

²⁵ And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.

²⁷ And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

²⁸ And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'