unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

Josh. xv, 18, 19. And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs,andthe nether springs.

1 Kings ix, 16. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

Hosea iii, 2. So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half-homer of barley.

2 Cor. xii 14. Eehold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensonie to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

MARRIAGE OF BROTHER'S

WIDOW.

Gen. xxxviii, 8, 11, 13 14. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: (for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did.) And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath;

for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him to wife.

Deut. xxv, 5-10. If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the first - born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up

unto his brother a name in Israel,
he will not perform the duty of
my husband's brother. Then the
elders of his city shall call him,
and speak unto him: and if he
stand to it, and say, I like not to
take her; Then shall his brother's
wife come unto him in the pres-
ence of the elders, and loose his
shoe from off his foot, and spit in
his face, and shall answer and
say, So shall it be done unto that
man that will not build up his
brother's house. And his name
shail be called in Israel, The
house of him that hath his shoe
loosed.

Ruth iv, 5,6.10,11. Then said Boaz,
What day thou buyest the field
of the hand of Naomi, thou must
buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess,
the wife of the dead, to raise up
the name of the dead upon his
inheritance. And the kinsman
said, I cannot redeem it for my
self, lest I mar mine own inherit-
ance: redeem thou my right to
thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess,
the wife of Mahlon, have I pur-
chased to be my wife, to raise up
the name of the dead upon his
inheritance, that the name of the
dead be not cut off from among
his brethren, and from the gate
of his place: ye are witnesses this
day. And all the people that were
in the gate, and the elders, said,

We are witnesses.

Luke xx, 28-33. Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to

wife.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Gen. xviii, 11. Now Abraham
and Sarah were old, and well
stricken in age; and it ceased to
be with Sarali after the manner
of women.

Gen. xxxi, 34, 35. Now Rachel
had taken the images, and put
them in the camel's furniture, and
And Laban
sat upon them.
searched all the tent, but found
them not. And she said to her
father, Let it not displease my
lord that I cannot rise up before
thee; for the custom of women is
And he searched, but
upon me.
found not the images.

Lev. xv, 19-33. And if a woman

have an issue, and her issue in her
flesh be blood, she shall be put
apart seven days; and whosoever
toucheth her shall be unclean
until the even. And every thing
that she lieth upon in her separ-
ation shall be unclean; every thing
also that she sitteth upon shall be
unclean. And whosoever toucheth
her bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even. And who-
soever toucheth any thing that
she sat upon shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even. And
if it be on her bed, or on any thing
whereon she sitteth, when he
And if any man
toucheth it, he shall be unclean
until the even.
Ife with her at all, and her flowers
be upon him, he shall be unclean
seven days; and all the bed where-
on he lieth shall be unclean. And

if a woman have an issue of her
blood many days ont of the time
of her separation, or if it run be-
yond the time of her separation;
all the days of the issue of her
uncleanness shall be as the days of
her separation: she shall be un-
clean. Every bed whereon she
lieth all the days of her issue shall
be unto her as the bed of her

separation: and whatsoever she
sitteth upon shall be unclean, as
the uncleanness of her separation.
And whosoever toucheth those

things shall be unclean, and shall
wash his clothes, and bathe him-
self in water, and be unclean until
the even. But if she be cleansed of
her issue, then she shall number
to herself seven days, and after
that she shall be clean. And on
the eighth day she shall take unto
her two turtles, or two young
pigeons, and bring them unto the
priest, to the door of the taber-
nacle of the congregation.
the priest shall offer the one for
a sin-offering, and the other for
a burnt-offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for her
before the LORD for the issue of
her uncleanness. Thus shall ye
separate the children of Israel

And

from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is deled therewith; And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

Lev. xx, 18. And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness, he hath discovered

her

fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Deut. xxii, 13-20. If any man

the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife. And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain inthinehouse,and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

of

the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remuant Israel, thou art righteous; for we nor escaping? O LORD God remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and wher I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver; and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and put her away all his days. But she shall be his wife: he may not you, and scourges in your sides. / daughters for our sons. if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found

for the damsel.

Isa. xxx, 22. Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get

thee hence.

Lam. i, 17. Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a

menstruous woman among them.

Ezek. xviii, 6. And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a men

struous woman.

Ezek. xxii, 10. In thee have they discovered their father's nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

Ezek. xxxvi, 17. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way, and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed

woman.

RESTRICTIONS UNDER JEW

ISH LAW.

Deut. xxi, 10, 11, 13, 14. When thou goest forth to war against thine enerales, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, Aud seest among

in any wise go back, and cleave
Josh. xxiii, 12, 13. Else, if ye do
even these that remain among
unto the remnant of these nations,
you, and shall make marriges with
them, and go in unto them, and
they to you: Know for a certainty,
that the LORD your God will no
more drive out any of these na-
tions from before you; but they
shall be snares and traps unto

and thorns in your eyes, until ye
perish from off this good land
which the LORD your God hath
given you.

Ezra x, 18, 19, 44. And among wives; namely, of the sons of the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and they would put away their wives; And they gave their hands that Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. ram of the flock for their trespass. and, being guilty, they offered a All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

people of the land, nor take their Neh. x, 30. And that we would not give our daughters unto the

also saw I Jews that had married Neh. xiii, 23-28. In those days wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: And their children dren of Israel dwelt among the dod, and could not speak in the Judges ill, 5, 6. And the chil- spake half in the speech of AshCanaanites, Hittites, and Amo-Jews' language, but according to rites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transing strange wives? And one of gress against our God, in marrythe sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was sonin-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

cursed them, and smote certain of the language of each people. And them, and plucked off their hair, I contended with them, and and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your Ezra ix, 1, 2, 12-15. Now, when daughters unto their sons, nor these things were done, the take their daughters unto your princes came to me, saying, The sons, or for yourselves. Did not people of Israel, and the priests, Solomon king of Israel sin by and the Levites, have not separat- these things? yet among many of the lands, doing according to him, who was beloved of his God, ed themselves from the people nations was there no king like their abominations, even of the and God made him king over all Canaanites, Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Am-outlandish women cause to sin. the Hittites, the Israel: nevertheless even him did monites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons; so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers have been chief in this trespass. Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever, that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with

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treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Mal. ii, 11, 12. Judah hath dealt Jerusalem; for Judah hath_profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married The LORD will cut off the man the daughter of a strange god. that doeth this, the master and of Jacob, and him that offereth an the scholar, out of the tabernacles offering unto the LORD of hosts.

DUTIES OF HUSBANDS. of thine own cistern; and running Prov. v, 15-19. Drink waters ont

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in thy streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

waters out of thine own well. I come abroad unto all women, so, that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not. Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath. If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be writtten among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. And when the king's decree, which he shall make, shall be published throughall the wives shall give to their out all his empire, (for it is great,) husbands honour, both to great and small. Aud the saying pleas; ed the king and the princes: and

Prov. xi. 17, 29. The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Eccles xi, 9. Live joyfully with

the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

1 Cor. vil, 29, 33. But this, I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had

none; But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Eph. v, 28, 33. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife loveth himself. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Çol. iii, 19. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against

them.

1 Peter iii, 7. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker ves

the king did according to the word
of Memucan.

Ps. xlv, 10. Hearken, O daugh-
ter, and consider, and incline
thine ear; forget also thine own
people, and thy father's house.

1 Cor. xi, 8, 9. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

1 Cor. xiv, 34, 35. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Eph. v, 22-24. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own hus

not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Titus ii, 4, 5. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own hus band, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Abraham, Let it not be grievous Gen. xxi, 12. And God said unto in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath said unto

thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

1 Sam. xxv, 19, 26. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Esther 1, 10--12. On the seventh

sel, and as being heirs together of bands, as unto the Lord. For the day, when the heart of the king the grace of life; that your prayers husband is the head of the wife,

be not hindered.

DUTIES OF THE WIFE.

Gen. iii, 16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Esther i, 15-21. What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. For this deed of the queen shall

even as Christ is the head of the
church: and he is the saviour of

the body. Therefore as the church
is subject unto Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in
every thing.

manded Mehuman, Biztha, Harwas merry with wine, he combona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, Cascas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown-royal, to Col. iii, 18. Wives, submit your-shew the people and the princes selves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

her beauty; for she was fair to
look on. But the queen Vashti
refused to come at the king's
commandment by his chamber-
the king
lains: therefore was
very wroth, and his anger burned
in him.

1 Tim. ii, 11-14. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Prov. xxxi, 23. Her husband is Eve. And Adam was not de-known in the gates, when he ceived; but the woman, being sitieth among the elders of the deceived, was in the transgres- land.

sion.

Gen. xxxviii, 1, 2. And it came dropping in a very rainy day and to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adul

a contentious woman are alike. Whosoever hideth her hideth the

wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

lamite, whose name was Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, Deut. xxxiii, 24. And of Asher, aud went in unto her.

the husband hath not power of
his own body, but the wife. De-
fraud ye not one the other, except
it be with consent for a time, that
ye may give yourselves to fasting
and prayer; and come together
again, that Satan tempt you not
But I
for your incontinency.
speak this by permission, and not

of commandment.

DISSOLUTION OF

MARRIAGE.
BY DEATH.
Rom. vii, 2, 3. For the woman
which hath an husband is bound

by the law to her husband so long
as he liveth: but if the husband be
dead, she is loosed from the law
of her husband. So then if, while
her husband liveth, she be mar-
ried to another man, she shall be
called an adulteress: but if her
husband be dead, she is free from
that law; so that she is no adul-
teress, though she be married to
another man.

1 Cor. vii, 39. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

WIDOWS.

Gen. xxxviii, 12, 19. And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

And

in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Acts ix, 39. Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Jer. xv, 8. 9. Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she 1 Tim. v, 3, 4, 16. Honour wihath been ashamed and confound-dows that are widows indeed. ed: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

Lam. v, 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

1 Tim. v, 5, 9, 10. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

WIDOWS SPECIALLY OBJECTS OF
SYMPATHY.

Jobxxix,13. The blessing of him
that was ready to perish came
upon me, and I caused the widow's
heart to sing for joy.

Job xxii, 9-11. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. Therefore snares are

that thou canst not see; and abun-
dance of waters cover thee.

round about thee, and sudden Ruth 1, 3, 5. And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she fear troubleth thee; Or darkness, was left, and her two sons. Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

Ruth 11, 11, 12. And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me all that thou hast done unto thy motherin-law since the death of thine husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

1 Kings xvii,9. Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

P3. lxxviii, 64. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Job xxxi, 16-18. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb.

Ps. xciv, 6. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

But if any widows have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. If any man or woman that belleyeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

James 1, 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

GOD'S CARE OF WIDOWS.

Exod. xxii, 22-24. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Deut. x, 18. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stran ger, in giving him food and raiment.

Deut. xxiv. 17, 18. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless,

nor take a widow's raiment to
pledge: But thou shalt remember
that thou wast a bond- man in
Egypt, and the LORD thy God
redeemed thee thence: therefore
to do this
I command thee
thing.

Deut. xxvi, 19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say,

Amen.

Ps. Ixviii, 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Ps. cxlvi, 9. The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turneth up

Isa. liv, 4. Fear not; for thou
shalt not be ashamed; neither be
thou confounded; for thou shalt
not be put to shame: for thou shalt
forget the shame of thy youth,
and shalt not remember the re-side down.
proach of thy widowhood any

more.

Ezek. xxii, 7. In thee have they set light by father and mother, in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger;

Prov. xv, 25. The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the

widow.