Quotes About Marriage

And he told me, ëThe LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my fatherís house.

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.í

Then I asked her, ëWhose daughter are you?í She replied, ëThe daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.í So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your masterís son, just as the LORD has decreed.”

Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his motherís death.

Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ëShe is my sisterí?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your motherís father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your motherís brother.

Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abrahamís son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasnít it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.