Laban’s Treachery

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my [a]time is completed, that I may (A)have relations with her.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 29:21 Lit days are

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.(A)

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Law of Divorce

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some (A)indecency in her, that (B)he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and [a]sends her away from his house,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:1 Or dismisses her

24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him(A) because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,(B) gives it to her and sends her from his house,

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Samson Burns Philistine Crops

15 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife (A)with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

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Samson’s Vengeance on the Philistines

15 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest,(A) Samson(B) took a young goat(C) and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.”(D) But her father would not let him go in.

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