TSK · Ruth 4:10

Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

The one who has found a good wife has found what goodness is, and obtained a delightful gift from the LORD.

The Wife of Noble Character Who can find a wife of noble character? For her value is far more than rubies.

Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.

Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.