Quotes About Women

When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.

When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our fatherís brothers.”

“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their fatherís brothers, and transfer their fatherís inheritance to them.

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.

Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their fatherís side.

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.

Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”