Haller's Concordance: SHE
- And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Gen. 2:23
- And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat. Gen. 3:6
- And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat. Gen. 3:13
- I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. Gen. 3:15
- And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. Gen. 3:20
- And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman. Gen. 4:2
- And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch. Gen. 4:17
- Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew. Gen. 4:25
- But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark. Gen. 8:9
- And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth. Gen. 8:11
- And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee. Gen. 12:12
- And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful. Gen. 12:14
- And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels. Gen. 12:16
- And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Gen. 12:18
- For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way. Gen. 12:19
- She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request, Gen. 16:2
- She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife. Gen. 16:3
- And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress. Gen. 16:4
- And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee. Gen. 16:5
- And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away. Gen. 16:6
- He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress. Gen. 16:8
- And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me. Gen. 16:13
- Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad. Gen. 16:14
- And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent. Gen. 18:9
- And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. Gen. 18:10
- And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure? Gen. 18:12
- Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh. Gen. 18:15
- And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up. Gen. 19:33
- They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up. Gen. 19:35
- And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her. Gen. 20:2
- And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband. Gen. 20:3
- Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this. Gen. 20:5
- Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. Gen. 20:12
- And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her. Gen. 21:2
- And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age? Gen. 21:7
- And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham: Gen. 21:9
- So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee. Gen. 21:14
- And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there. Gen. 21:15
- And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept. Gen. 21:16
- And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink. Gen. 21:19
- And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her. Gen. 23:2
- Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master. Gen. 24:14
- An exceedingly comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back. Gen. 24:16
- And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink. Gen. 24:18
- And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink. Gen. 24:19
- And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels. Gen. 24:20
- And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor. Gen. 24:24
- And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in. Gen. 24:25
- Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard. Gen. 24:28
- And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water, Gen. 24:30
- And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a little to drink. Gen. 24:45
- And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and said to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels. Gen. 24:46
- And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands. Gen. 24:47
- And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart. Gen. 24:55
- And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go. Gen. 24:58
- Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel, Gen. 24:64
- And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself. Gen. 24:65
- And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive. Gen. 25:21
- But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord. Gen. 25:22
- And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty. Gen. 26:7
- And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake. Gen. 26:9
- She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him: Gen. 27:6
- He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked. Gen. 27:14
- And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her: Gen. 27:15
- And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck. Gen. 27:16
- And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked. Gen. 27:17
- These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill thee. Gen. 27:42
- They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she fed the flock. Gen. 29:9
- And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father. Gen. 29:12
- And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me. Gen. 29:32
- And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon. Gen. 29:33
- And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. Gen. 29:34
- The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing. Gen. 29:35
- But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her. Gen. 30:3
- And she gave him Bala in marriage: who, Gen. 30:4
- And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan. Gen. 30:6
- For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali. Gen. 30:8
- Lia perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband. Gen. 30:9
- And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son, Gen. 30:10
- She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad. Gen. 30:11
- And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser. Gen. 30:13
- She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes. Gen. 30:15
- And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son: Gen. 30:17
- And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. Gen. 30:18
- And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon. Gen. 30:20
- After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina. Gen. 30:21
- And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach. Gen. 30:23
- And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son. Gen. 30:24
- She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing, Gen. 31:34
- She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain. Gen. 31:35
- And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words. Gen. 34:3
- By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. Gen. 35:17
- And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand. Gen. 35:18
- And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau. Gen. 36:12
- And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. Gen. 36:14
- And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her. Gen. 38:3
- And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan. Gen. 38:4
- She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth, she ceased to bear any more. Gen. 38:5
- Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house. Gen. 38:11
- And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him. Gen. 38:14
- When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known. Gen. 38:15
- And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to enjoy my company? Gen. 38:16
- He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she said again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge, till thou send what thou promisest. Gen. 38:17
- Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy ring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The woman therefore at one copulation conceived. Gen. 38:18
- And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood. Gen. 38:19
- Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely she cannot charge us with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find her. Gen. 38:23
- And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt. Gen. 38:24
- But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is. Gen. 38:25
- But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more. Gen. 38:26
- And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared twins in her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying: Gen. 38:27
- Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread: and she called his name Zara. Gen. 38:30
- And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out. Gen. 39:12
- She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me; and when I cried out, Gen. 39:14
- For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home: Gen. 39:16
- These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three. Gen. 46:15
- These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his daughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls. Gen. 46:18
- These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the souls, fourteen. Gen. 46:22
- These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven. Gen. 46:25
- And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months. Ex. 2:2
- And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink, Ex. 2:3
- And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought, Ex. 2:5
- She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews. Ex. 2:6
- She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother. Ex. 2:8
- And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter. Ex. 2:9
- And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water. Ex. 2:10
- And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao. Ex. 2:22
- And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision. Ex. 4:26
- And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father's side: and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's life, were a hundred and thirty-seven. Ex. 6:20
- But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical families by their kindreds. Ex. 6:25
- And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea. Ex. 15:21
- But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment. Ex. 21:4
- If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out. Ex. 21:7
- If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her. Ex. 21:8
- If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money. Ex. 21:11
- If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award. Ex. 21:22
- And shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a she goat without blemish. Lev. 4:28
- And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin. Lev. 5:6
- Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers. Lev. 12:2
- But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled. Lev. 12:4
- But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days. Lev. 12:5
- And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest. Lev. 12:6
- Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her: and so she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth a man child or a maid child. Lev. 12:7
- And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed. Lev. 12:8
- And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled. Lev. 15:21
- Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening. Lev. 15:23
- The woman that hath an issue of blood many days out of her ordinary time, or that ceaseth not to flow after the monthly courses, as long as she is subject to this disease, shall be unclean, in the same manner as if she were in her flowers. Lev. 15:25
- Every bed on which she sleepeth, and every vessel on which she sitteth, shall be defiled. Lev. 15:26
- If the blood stop and cease to run, she shall count seven days of her purification: Lev. 15:28
- And on the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the priest, two turtles, or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: Lev. 15:29
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Lev. 18:7
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister. Lev. 18:11
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: because she is the flesh of thy father. Lev. 18:12
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh. Lev. 18:13
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame. Lev. 18:15
- Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living. Lev. 18:18
- If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman. Lev. 19:20
- If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity. Lev. 20:17
- If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people. Lev. 20:18
- If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire. Lev. 21:9
- If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits. Lev. 22:12
- But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children return to her father's house, she shall eat of her father's meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger hath leave to eat of them. Lev. 22:13
- And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel: and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel. Lev. 24:10
- In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein. Lev. 26:35
- Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws. Lev. 26:43
- Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery: Num. 5:13
- And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up, Num. 5:24
- And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people. Num. 5:27
- But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children. Num. 5:28
- The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity. Num. 5:31
- And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again. Num. 12:14
- But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin. Num. 15:27
- And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell under the feet of the rider: who being angry beat her sides more vehemently with a staff. Num. 22:27
- And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time? Num. 22:28
- And unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me who stood against thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived. Num. 22:33
- Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister. Num. 26:59
- If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: Num. 30:3
- Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed. Num. 30:4
- But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. Num. 30:5
- If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath, Num. 30:6
- The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised. Num. 30:7
- But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her. Num. 30:8
- The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow. Num. 30:9
- If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised. Num. 30:11
- But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her. Num. 30:12
- If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it. Num. 30:13
- But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace. Num. 30:14
- For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee. Dt. 7:4
- Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails, Dt. 21:12
- And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife. Dt. 21:13
- But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her. Dt. 21:14
- They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. Dt. 22:21
- Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee. Dt. 22:24
- The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer: Dt. 22:26
- She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her. Dt. 22:27
- ¤ If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. Dt. 24:1
- And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband, Dt. 24:2
- The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess. Dt. 24:4
- But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there. Josu. 2:6
- Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall. Josu. 2:15
- And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way. Josu. 2:16
- And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window. Josu. 2:21
- And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent. Josu. 6:17
- But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an imprecation, saying: Josu. 6:25
- And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to ask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And Caleb said to her: What aileth thee? Josu. 15:18
- But she answered: Give me a blessing: thou hast given me a southern and dry land, give me also a land that Is watered. And Caleb gave her the upper and the nether watery ground. Josu. 15:19
- And as she was going on her way, her husband admonished her to ask a field of her father. And as she sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb said to her: What aileth thee? Judg. 1:14
- But she answered: Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a dry land: give me also a watery land So Caleb gave her the upper and the nether watery ground. Judg. 1:15
- And she sat under a palm tree, which was called by her name, between Rama and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for all judgment. Judg. 4:5
- And she sent and called Barac, the Son of Abinoem, out of Cedes, in Nephthali: and she said to him: The Lord God of Israel hath commanded thee: Go, and lead an army to Mount Thabor, and thou shalt take with thee ten thousand fighting men of the children of Nephthali, and of the children of Zabulon: Judg. 4:6
- She said to him: I will go, indeed, with thee, but at this time the victory shall not be attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be delivered into the hand of a woman. Debbora therefore arose, and went with Barac to Cedes. Judg. 4:9
- Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little water, for I am very thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him. Judg. 4:19
- So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died. Judg. 4:21
- Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and blessed be she in her tent. Judg. 5:24
- He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes. Judg. 5:25
- She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples. Judg. 5:26
- His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow? Judg. 5:28
- And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the victory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies. Judg. 11:36
- And she said to her father: Grant me only this, which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may bewail my virginity with my companions. Judg. 11:37
- And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months. And when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her virginity in the mountains. Judg. 11:38
- And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept: Judg. 11:39
- And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me: Judg. 13:6
- And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord appeared again to his wife, as she was sitting in the field. But Manue her husband was not with her. And when she saw the angel, Judg. 13:9
- She made haste, and ran to her husband: and told him, saying: Behold the man hath appeared to me, whom I saw before. Judg. 13:10
- And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. Judg. 13:24
- And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said to his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes. Judg. 14:3
- So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest me, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the riddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he answered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I tell it to thee? Judg. 14:16
- So she wept before him the seven days of the feast: and, at length, on the seventh day, as she was troublesome to him, he expounded it. And she immediately told her countrymen. Judg. 14:17
- I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her. Judg. 15:2
- After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila. Judg. 16:4
- And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him; Judg. 16:8
- Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber, expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay. Judg. 16:9
- And when Dalila had done this, she said to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking out of his sleep, he drew out the nail with the hairs and the lace. Judg. 16:14
- And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death. Judg. 16:16
- Then seeing that he had discovered to her all his mind, she sent to the princes of the Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for now he hath opened his heart to me. And they went up, taking with them the money which they had promised. Judg. 16:18
- But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength departed from him. Judg. 16:19
- And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him. Judg. 16:20
- Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by the Lord. Judg. 17:2
- And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas. Judg. 17:4
- And she left him, and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months. Judg. 19:2
- And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy, Judg. 19:3
- He thinking she was taking her rest, said to her: Arise, and let us be going. But as she made no answer, perceiving she was dead, he took her up, and laid her upon his ass, and returned to his house. Judg. 19:28
- And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died. Judg. 20:5
- And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons. Ruth 1:3
- And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with both her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked upon his people, and had given them food. Ruth 1:6
- Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with both her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the land of Juda, Ruth 1:7
- She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. Ruth 1:8
- May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep, Ruth 1:9
- But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me? Ruth 1:11
- She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Ruth 1:16
- But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness. Ruth 1:20
- And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother in law: If thou wilt, I will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder, that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter. Ruth 2:2
- She went, therefore, and gleaned the ears of corn after the reapers. And it happened that the owner of that field was Booz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. Ruth 2:3
- And she desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain, following the steps of the reapers: and she hath been in the field from morning till now, and hath not gone home for one moment. Ruth 2:7
- She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of another country? Ruth 2:10
- And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast comforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not like to one of thy maids. Ruth 2:13
- And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of the reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was filled, and took the leavings. Ruth 2:14
- And she arose from thence, to glean the ears of corn as before. And Booz commanded his servants, saying: If she would even reap with you, hinder her not: Ruth 2:15
- And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them. Ruth 2:16
- She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels: Ruth 2:17
- Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled. Ruth 2:18
- And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on thee. And she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man's name, that he was called Booz. Ruth 2:19
- And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman. Ruth 2:20
- So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns. Ruth 2:23
- ¤ After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee. Ruth 3:1
- She answered: Whatsoever thou shalt command, I will do. Ruth 3:5
- And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in law had bid her. Ruth 3:6
- And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and was merry, he went to sleep by the heap of sheaves, and she came softly, and uncovering his feet, laid herself down. Ruth 3:7
- And he said to her: Who art thou ? And she answered: I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread thy coverlet over thy servant, for thou art a near kinsman. Ruth 3:9
- So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she arose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any man know that thou camest hither. Ruth 3:14
- And again he said: Spread thy mantle, wherewith thou art covered, and hold it with both hands. And when she spread it and held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it upon her. And she carried it, and went into the city, Ruth 3:15
- And came to her mother in law; who said to her: What hast thou done, daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her. Ruth 3:16
- And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for he said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law. Ruth 3:17
- Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem: Ruth 4:11
- And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it. Ruth 4:16
- Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb: 1 Ki. 1:6
- And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna wept, and did not eat. 1 Ki. 1:7
- So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo: And Heli, the priest, sitting upon a stool before the door of the temple of the Lord; 1 Ki. 1:9
- As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears, 1 Ki. 1:10
- And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down on the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. 1 Ki. 1:11
- And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord, that Heli observed her mouth. 1 Ki. 1:12
- And she said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in thy eyes. So the woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no more changed. 1 Ki. 1:18
- And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord. 1 Ki. 1:20
- But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there. 1 Ki. 1:22
- And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seemeth good to thee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil his word. So the woman stayed at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him. 1 Ki. 1:23
- And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet very young: 1 Ki. 1:24
- They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened. 1 Ki. 2:5
- And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice. 1 Ki. 2:19
- And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord. 1 Ki. 2:21
- And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden. 1 Ki. 4:19
- And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them not, nor gave heed to them. 1 Ki. 4:20
- And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband: 1 Ki. 4:21
- And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken. 1 Ki. 4:22
- And it came to pass at the time when Merob, the daughter of Saul, should have been given to David, that she was given to Hadriel, the Molathite, to wife. 1 Ki. 18:19
- And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a stumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law this day. 1 Ki. 18:21
- She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped. 1 Ki. 19:12
- Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb. 1 Ki. 25:3
- And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal. 1 Ki. 25:19
- And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them. 1 Ki. 25:20
- And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground. 1 Ki. 25:23
- And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant. 1 Ki. 25:24
- And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and have honoured thy face. 1 Ki. 25:35
- And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. 1 Ki. 25:36
- And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. 1 Ki. 25:41
- And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife. 1 Ki. 25:42
- And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. 1 Ki. 28:12
- And he said to her: What form is he of? And she said: An old man cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood that it was Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and adored. 1 Ki. 28:14
- Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste and killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened bread, 1 Ki. 28:24
- And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet: for he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan from Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made haste to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth. 2 Ki. 4:4
- And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart. 2 Ki. 6:16
- And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite. 2 Ki. 11:3
- And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness: 2 Ki. 11:4
- And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived. 2 Ki. 11:5
- And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for him. 2 Ki. 11:26
- And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord. 2 Ki. 11:27
- And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her, and slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him. 2 Ki. 12:24
- And he was exceedingly fond of her, so that he fell sick for the love of her: for as she was a virgin, he thought it hard to do any thing dishonestly with her. 2 Ki. 13:2
- And Thamar came to the house of Ammon her brother: but he was laid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight she made little messes. 2 Ki. 13:8
- And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it before him, but he would not eat: and Ammon said: Put out all persons from me. And when they had put all persons out, 2 Ki. 13:9
- Ammon said to Thamar: Bring the mess into the chamber, that I may eat at thy hand. And Thamar took the little messes which she had made, and brought them in to her brother Ammon in the chamber. 2 Ki. 13:10
- And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and said: Come lie with me, my sister. 2 Ki. 13:11
- She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly. 2 Ki. 13:12
- She answered him: This evil which now thou dost against me, in driving me away, is greater than that which thou didst before. And he would not hearken to her: 2 Ki. 13:16
- And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king's daughters that were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust her out: and shut the door after her. 2 Ki. 13:18
- And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe and laid her hands upon her head, and went on crying. 2 Ki. 13:19
- And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king. 2 Ki. 14:4
- And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead. 2 Ki. 14:5
- And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth. 2 Ki. 14:11
- And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter, whose name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful. 2 Ki. 14:27
- And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou Joab? And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words of thy handmaid. He answered: I do hear. 2 Ki. 20:17
- And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They that inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end. 2 Ki. 20:18
- Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord? 2 Ki. 20:19
- So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. 2 Ki. 20:22
- So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai, that was of Molathi: 2 Ki. 21:8
- And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the king, and served him, but the king did not know her. 3 Ki. 1:4
- She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy handmaid, by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne. 3 Ki. 1:17
- As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came. 3 Ki. 1:22
- And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when she was come in to the king, and stood before him, 3 Ki. 1:28
- And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of Solomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered: It is peaceable. 3 Ki. 2:13
- And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him: Speak. And he said: 3 Ki. 2:14
- Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face. And she said to him: Say on. 3 Ki. 2:16
- Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias: and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his throne: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand. 3 Ki. 2:19
- And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not put me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I must not turn away thy face. 3 Ki. 2:20
- And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy brother, to wife. 3 Ki. 2:21
- And the third day after that I was delivered, she also was delivered; and we were together, and no other person with us in the house; only we two. 3 Ki. 3:18
- And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him. 3 Ki. 3:19
- And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom. 3 Ki. 3:20
- And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove before the king. 3 Ki. 3:22
- The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof. 3 Ki. 3:27
- And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and camels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and precious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that she had in her heart. 3 Ki. 10:2
- And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him: there was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not answer her. 3 Ki. 10:3
- And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her; 3 Ki. 10:5
- And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my own country, 3 Ki. 10:6
- And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon. 3 Ki. 10:10
- And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and asked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal bounty. And she returned, and went to her own country, with her servants. 3 Ki. 10:13
- And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman, 3 Ki. 14:5
- And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died, 3 Ki. 14:17
- Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron: 3 Ki. 15:13
- And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. 3 Ki. 17:11
- And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. 3 Ki. 17:12
- She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day 3 Ki. 17:15
- And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son? 3 Ki. 17:18
- So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth. 3 Ki. 21:8
- And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them; 3 Ki. 21:11
- And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned, and dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and give it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead. 3 Ki. 21:15
- And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid, have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me. 4 Ki. 4:2
- So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in. 4 Ki. 4:5
- And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood. 4 Ki. 4:6
- And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest. 4 Ki. 4:7
- And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us. 4 Ki. 4:9
- And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and she stood before him, 4 Ki. 4:12
- He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently served us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast thou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people. 4 Ki. 4:13
- And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old. 4 Ki. 4:14
- Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door, 4 Ki. 4:15
- He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. 4 Ki. 4:16
- And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died. 4 Ki. 4:20
- And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out, 4 Ki. 4:21
- She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. 4 Ki. 4:22
- And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go. 4 Ki. 4:23
- And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee. 4 Ki. 4:24
- So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel: and when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his servant: Behold that Sunamitess. 4 Ki. 4:25
- Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well. 4 Ki. 4:26
- And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 4 Ki. 4:27
- And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me? 4 Ki. 4:28
- And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And she being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son. 4 Ki. 4:36
- She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and took up her son, and went out. 4 Ki. 4:37
- Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's wife. 4 Ki. 5:2
- And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath. 4 Ki. 5:3
- And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered: 4 Ki. 6:27
- So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son. 4 Ki. 6:29
- And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. 4 Ki. 8:2
- And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house and for her lands. 4 Ki. 8:3
- And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this present. 4 Ki. 8:6
- And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king's daughter. 4 Ki. 9:34
- She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy. 4 Ki. 11:14
- And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there. 4 Ki. 11:16
- And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me: 4 Ki. 22:15
- ¤ And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him. 4 Ki. 23:1
- And the sons of Cetura, Abraham's concubine, whom she bore: Zamran, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue. And the sons of Jecsan, Saba, and Dadan. And the sons of Dadan: Assurim, and Latussim, and Laomin. 1 Par. 1:32
- And afterwards Hesron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and took her to wife when he was threescore years old: and she bore him Segub. 1 Par. 2:21
- And he gave him his daughter to wife: and she bore him Ethei. 1 Par. 2:35
- And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Phares: and the name of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam and Recen. 1 Par. 7:16
- And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house: 1 Par. 7:23
- And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come to the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul looking out at a window, saw king David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart. 1 Par. 15:29
- ¤ And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and camels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that was in her heart. 2 Par. 9:1
- And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and there was not any thing that he did not make clear unto her. 2 Par. 9:2
- And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built, 2 Par. 9:3
- And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered in the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so astonished. 2 Par. 9:4
- And she said to the king: The word is true which I heard in my country of thy virtues and wisdom. 2 Par. 9:5
- And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and most precious stones: there were no such spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon. 2 Par. 9:9
- And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired, and that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him: so she returned, and went to her own country with her servants. 2 Par. 9:12
- Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron. 2 Par. 15:16
- But Josabeth the king's daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain. And she hid him with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was daughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of Ochozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him. 2 Par. 22:11
- Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the Lord. 2 Par. 23:12
- And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason. 2 Par. 23:13
- And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord. 2 Par. 23:14
- And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there. 2 Par. 23:15
- And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me: 2 Par. 34:23
- For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be brought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They therefore reported to the king all that she had said. 2 Par. 34:28
- That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired. 2 Par. 36:21
- Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands. Tob. 2:19
- Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home: Tob. 2:20
- And with these and other, such like words she upbraided him. Tob. 2:23
- Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. Tob. 3:8
- So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands. Tob. 3:9
- Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink: Tob. 3:10
- And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord, Tob. 3:12
- She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee. Tob. 3:13
- For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee in her womb. Tob. 4:4
- And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her by me. Tob. 4:5
- Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them. Tob. 6:14
- And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept. Tob. 7:19
- And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my daughter: the Lord of heaven give thee joy for the trouble thou hast undergone. Tob. 7:20
- So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together. Tob. 8:15
- And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord, Tob. 8:16
- But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out looked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar off. Tob. 10:7
- But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from whence she might see afar off. Tob. 11:5
- And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him afar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning she told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh. Tob. 11:6
- And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids. Jud. 8:5
- And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel. Jud. 8:6
- And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great riches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep. Jud. 8:7
- And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the Lord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of her. Jud. 8:8
- When therefore she had heard that Ozias had promised that he would deliver up the city after the fifth day, she sent to the ancients Chabri and Charmi. Jud. 8:9
- And they came to her, and she said to them: What is this word, by which Ozias hath consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if within five days there come no aid to us? Jud. 8:10
- ¤ And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before the Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying: Jud. 9:1
- ¤ And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the Lord, that she rose from the place wherein she lay prostrate before the Lord. Jud. 10:1
- And she called her maid, and going down into her house she took off her haircloth, and put away the garments of her widowhood, Jud. 10:2
- And she washed her body, and anointed herself with the best ointment, and plaited the hair of her head, and put a bonnet upon her head, and clothed herself with the garments of her gladness, and put sandals on her feet, and took her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets, and rings, and adorned herself with all her ornaments. Jud. 10:3
- And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing up did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men's eyes incomparably lovely. Jud. 10:4
- And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel of oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went out. Jud. 10:5
- But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she and her maid. Jud. 10:10
- And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of day, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her, saying: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou? Jud. 10:11
- And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled from them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because they despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves, that they might find mercy in your sight. Jud. 10:12
- And when she was come into his presence, forthwith Holofernes was caught by his eyes. Jud. 10:17
- After she had looked on his face, bowed down to him, prostrating herself to the ground. And the servants of Holofernes lifted her up, by the command of their master. Jud. 10:20
- ¤ Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her from his own table. Jud. 12:1
- And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord. Jud. 12:5
- And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days. Jud. 12:6
- And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water. Jud. 12:7
- And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people. Jud. 12:8
- And going in, she remained pure in the tent, until she took her own meat in the evening. Jud. 12:9
- Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said: Let not my good maid be afraid to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face, that she may eat with him and drink wine and be merry. Jud. 12:12
- And she arose and dressed herself out with her garments, and going in she stood before his face. Jud. 12:15
- And she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared for her. Jud. 12:19
- And when she had said this, she went to the pillar that was at his bed's head, and loosed his sword that hung tied upon it. Jud. 13:8
- And when she had drawn it out, she took him by the hair of his head, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this hour. Jud. 13:9
- And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body. Jud. 13:10
- And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet. Jud. 13:11
- And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they now had no hopes that she would come. Jud. 13:15
- And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and she went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made. And when all had held their peace, Jud. 13:16
- Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet, and shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, and behold his canopy, wherein he lay in his drunkenness, where the Lord our God slew him by the hand of a woman. Jud. 13:19
- And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honour of our people: Jud. 15:10
- For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel. Jud. 16:9
- She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him. Jud. 16:10
- Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head. Jud. 16:11
- And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had taken away out of his chamber. Jud. 16:23
- And after those days every man returned to his house, and Judith was made great in Bethulia, and she was most renowned in all the land of Israel. Jud. 16:25
- And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man all the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband. Jud. 16:26
- And on festival days she came forth with great glory. Jud. 16:27
- And she abode in her husband's house a hundred and five years, and made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her husband in Bethulia. Jud. 16:28
- To bring in queen Vasthi before the king, with the crown set upon her head, to shew her beauty to all the people and the princes: for she was exceeding beautiful. Esther 1:11
- But she refused, and would not come at the king's commandment, which he had signified to her by the eunuchs. Whereupon the king, being angry, and inflamed with a very great fury, Esther 1:12
- For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that they will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded that queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not. Esther 1:17
- ¤ After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was appeased, he remembered Vasthi, and what she had done and what she had suffered: Esther 2:1
- And he had brought up his brother's daughter Edissa, who by another name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and was exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead, Mardochai adopted her for his daughter. Esther 2:7
- And she pleased him, and found favour in his sight. And he commanded the eunuch to hasten the women's ornaments, and to deliver to her her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king's house, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids. Esther 2:9
- And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that: Esther 2:10
- And she that went in at evening, came out in the morning, and from thence she was conducted to the second house, that was under the hand of Susagaz the eunuch, who had the charge over the king's concubines: neither could she return any more to the king, unless the king desired it, and had ordered her by name to come. Esther 2:14
- And as the time came orderly about, the day was at hand, when Esther, the daughter of Abihail the brother of Mardochai, whom he had adopted for his daughter, was to go in to the king. But she sought not women's ornaments, but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of the virgins had a mind, he gave her to adorn her. For she was exceeding fair, and her incredible beauty made her appear agreeable and amiable in the eyes of all. Esther 2:15
- So she was brought to the chamber of king Assuerus the tenth month, which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. Esther 2:16
- And the king loved her more than all the women, and she had favour and kindness before him above all the women, and he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vasthi. Esther 2:17
- Neither had Esther as yet declared her country and people, according to his commandment. For whatsoever he commanded, Esther observed: and she did all things in the same manner as she was wont at that time when he brought her up a little one. Esther 2:20
- And Mardochai had notice of it, and immediately he told it to queen Esther: and she to the king in Mardochai's name, who had reported the thing unto her. Esther 2:22
- Then Esther's maids and her eunuchs went in, and told her. And when she heard it she was in a consternation and she sent a garment, to clothe him, and to take away the sackcloth: but he would not receive it. Esther 4:4
- And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed to attend upon her, and she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and learn of him why he did this. Esther 4:5
- She answered him, and bade him say to Mardochai: Esther 4:10
- And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments suitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was accustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair. Esther 14:2
- And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord, who alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other helper but thee. Esther 14:3
- And on the third day she laid away the garments she wore, and put on her glorious apparel. Esther 15:4
- And glittering in royal robes, after she had called upon God the ruler and Saviour of all, she took two maids with her, Esther 15:5
- And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body. Esther 15:6
- But she with a rosy colour in her face, and with gracious and bright eyes hid a mind full of anguish, and exceeding great fear. Esther 15:8
- So going in she passed through all the doors in order, and stood before the king, where he sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his royal robes, and glittering with gold, and precious stones, and he was terrible to behold. Esther 15:9
- And when he had lifted up his countenance, and with burning eyes had shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour turned pale, and she rested her weary head upon her handmaid. Esther 15:10
- And God changed the king's spirit into mildness, and all in haste and in fear he leaped from his throne, and holding her up in his arms, till she came to herself, caressed her with these words: Esther 15:11
- And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to me? Esther 15:15
- She answered: I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty. Esther 15:16
- And while she was speaking, she fell down again, and was almost in a swoon. Esther 15:18
- And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre. Esther 5:2
- But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared. Esther 5:4
- Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request. Esther 7:3
- And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect. Esther 8:3
- But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his hand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before him, Esther 8:4
- And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews, to do to morrow in Susan as they have done to day, and that the ten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets. Esther 9:13
- And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east. Job 1:3
- When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust. Job 39:14
- She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them. Job 39:15
- She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. Job 39:16
- When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider. Job 39:18
- She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access. Job 39:28
- From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Job 39:29
- Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there. Job 39:30
- And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. Job 42:12
- For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. Ps. 84:3
- Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets: Pr. 1:20
- At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: Pr. 1:21
- She is more precious than all riches: and all the things that are desired, are not to be compared to her. Pr. 3:15
- She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed. Pr. 3:18
- Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. Pr. 4:6
- Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. Pr. 4:8
- She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown. Pr. 4:9
- Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain, Pr. 6:7
- That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words. Pr. 7:5
- And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying: Pr. 7:13
- She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. Pr. 7:21
- For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her. Pr. 7:26
- Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: Pr. 8:3
- ¤ Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars. Pr. 9:1
- She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her table. Pr. 9:2
- She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city: Pr. 9:3
- Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she said: Pr. 9:4
- He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said: Pr. 9:16
- A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones. Pr. 12:4
- Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old. Pr. 23:22
- She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. Pr. 23:28
- By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress. Pr. 30:23
- She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life. Pr. 31:12
- She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands. Pr. 31:13
- She is like the merchant's ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. Pr. 31:14
- And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens. Pr. 31:15
- She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. Pr. 31:16
- She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm. Pr. 31:17
- She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night. Pr. 31:18
- She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. Pr. 31:19
- She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. Pr. 31:20
- She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments. Pr. 31:21
- She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering. Pr. 31:22
- She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite. Pr. 31:24
- Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day. Pr. 31:25
- She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. Pr. 31:26
- She hath looked well to the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle. Pr. 31:27
- Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Pr. 31:30
- I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please. Cant. 2:7
- I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please. Cant. 3:5
- Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer? Cant. 3:6
- One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her. Cant. 6:9
- Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? Cant. 6:10
- I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please. Cant. 8:4
- Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee. Cant. 8:5
- Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to? Cant. 8:8
- If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar. Cant. 8:9
- Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. Wis. 3:13
- Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way: Wis. 5:11
- She preventeth them that covet her, so that she first sheweth herself unto them. Wis. 6:14
- For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, and she sheweth herself to them cheerfully in the ways, and meeteth them with all providence. Wis. 6:17
- And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all. Wis. 7:12
- For she is an infinite treasure to men: which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gift of discipline. Wis. 7:14
- For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her. Wis. 7:25
- For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness. Wis. 7:26
- And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets. Wis. 7:27
- For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it. Wis. 7:29
- ¤ She reacheth, therefore, from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly. Wis. 8:1
- She glorifieth her nobility by being conversant with God: yea, and the Lord of all things hath loved her. Wis. 8:3
- For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of God and is the chooser of his works. Wis. 8:4
- And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are? Wis. 8:6
- And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life. Wis. 8:7
- And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages. Wis. 8:8
- I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief. Wis. 8:9
- Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable with thee: Wis. 9:10
- For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and shall lead me soberly in my works, and shall preserve me by her power. Wis. 9:11
- ¤ She preserved him, that was first formed by God, the father of the world, when he was created alone, Wis. 10:1
- And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern all things. Wis. 10:2
- Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son. Wis. 10:5
- She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis: Wis. 10:6
- She conducted the just, when he fled from his brother's wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours. Wis. 10:10
- In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable. Wis. 10:11
- She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. Wis. 10:12
- She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit. Wis. 10:13
- And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory. Wis. 10:14
- She delivered the just people, and blameless seed, from the nations that oppressed them. Wis. 10:15
- She entered into the soul of the servant of God and stood against dreadful kings in wonders and signs. Wis. 10:16
- And she rendered to the just the wages of their labours, and conducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by day, and for the light of stars by night: Wis. 10:17
- And she brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them over through a great water. Wis. 10:18
- But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of hell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked. Wis. 10:19
- ¤ She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet. Wis. 11:1
- And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of her great works. Sir. 1:15
- She shall fill all her house with her increase, and the storehouses with her treasures. Sir. 1:21
- They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing. Sir. 4:14
- For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. Sir. 4:18
- She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul. Sir. 4:19
- Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy, Sir. 4:20
- But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy. Sir. 4:22
- She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them before it be long. Sir. 6:22
- For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many, but with them to whom she is known, she continueth even to the sight of God. Sir. 6:23
- Search for her, and she shall be made known to thee, and when thou hast gotten her, let her not go: Sir. 6:28
- For in the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall be turned to thy joy. Sir. 6:29
- ¤ Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson. Sir. 9:1
- Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded. Sir. 9:2
- And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin. Sir. 15:2
- With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved. Sir. 15:3
- And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and she shall exalt him among his neighbours. Sir. 15:4
- And in the midst of the church she shall open his mouth, and shall fill him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and shall clothe him with a robe of glory. Sir. 15:5
- She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name. Sir. 15:6
- But foolish men shall not obtain her, and wise men shall meet her, foolish men shall not see her: for she is far from pride and deceit. Sir. 15:7
- Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth. Sir. 15:11
- If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies. Sir. 18:31
- A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father. Sir. 22:4
- She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both. Sir. 22:5
- For first she hath been unfaithful to the law of the most High: and secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath fornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her children of another man. Sir. 23:33
- She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall not be blotted out. Sir. 23:36
- And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly. Sir. 24:3
- And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: Sir. 24:4
- The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours, Sir. 25:24
- A woman, if she have superiority, is contrary to her husband. Sir. 25:30
- If she walk not at thy hand, she will confound thee in the sight of thy enemies. Sir. 25:35
- Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee. Sir. 25:36
- A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion of them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds. Sir. 26:3
- On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself. Sir. 26:13
- Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee. Sir. 26:14
- She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail. Sir. 26:15
- If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation. Sir. 27:9
- He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint. Sir. 35:17
- If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men. Sir. 36:25
- He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest. Sir. 36:26
- Treat not with a man without religion concerning holiness, nor with an unjust man concerning justice, nor with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous, nor with a coward concerning war, nor with a merchant about traffic, nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an envious man of giving thanks, Sir. 37:12
- The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful: Sir. 42:9
- In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father's house: and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself, or at the least become barren. Sir. 42:10
- Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude. Sir. 42:11
- I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will seek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe. Sir. 51:19
- And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive discipline: for she is near at hand to be found. Sir. 51:34
- And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground. Isa. 3:26
- And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth. Isa. 6:12
- And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed. Isa. 6:13
- And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make haste to take away the prey. Isa. 8:3
- Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground. Isa. 21:9
- The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations. Isa. 23:3
- And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. Isa. 23:17
- As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord. Isa. 26:17
- Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. Isa. 40:2
- Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Isa. 49:15
- There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up. Isa. 51:18
- Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child. Isa. 66:7
- ¤ It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. Jer. 3:1
- And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there. Jer. 3:6
- And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw, Jer. 3:7
- And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks. Jer. 3:9
- They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord. Jer. 4:17
- As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me. Jer. 6:7
- She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith the Lord. Jer. 15:9
- As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool. Jer. 17:11
- For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her. Jer. 30:17
- Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither. Jer. 31:8
- Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour. Jer. 49:24
- For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain. Jer. 50:9
- Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry. Jer. 50:12
- Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord. Jer. 50:14
- Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do to her. Jer. 50:15
- Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand together against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. Jer. 50:29
- Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved. Jer. 51:6
- Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed. Jer. 51:8
- We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds. Jer. 51:9
- The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Jer. 51:42
- And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias. Jer. 51:64
- Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies. Lam. 1:2
- Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the nations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits. Lam. 1:3
- Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. Lam. 1:4
- Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no helper; the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths. Lam. 1:7
- Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. Lam. 1:8
- Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up. Lam. 1:9
- Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church. Lam. 1:10
- But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of evil she hath done, and goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the Lord. Bar. 2:18
- For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: Bar. 4:9
- The cities which thy children have served, shall be punished: and she that received thy sons. Bar. 4:32
- For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation. Bar. 4:33
- For fire shall come upon her from the Eternal, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited by devils for a great time. Bar. 4:35
- And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. Bar. 6:43
- And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments. Ezec. 5:6
- And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters. Ezec. 16:46
- And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. Ezec. 19:3
- But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion. Ezec. 19:5
- And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches. Ezec. 19:11
- But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her. Ezec. 19:12
- And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry. Ezec. 19:13
- And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation. Ezec. 19:14
- And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted. Ezec. 23:7
- Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her. Ezec. 23:8
- Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted. Ezec. 23:9
- And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister. Ezec. 23:11
- And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way. Ezec. 23:13
- And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours, Ezec. 23:14
- She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea. Ezec. 23:16
- And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them. Ezec. 23:17
- And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister. Ezec. 23:18
- For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. Ezec. 23:19
- And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses. Ezec. 23:20
- For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust. Ezec. 24:7
- Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now she is laid waste. Ezec. 26:2
- She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations. Ezec. 26:5
- And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather. Dan. 13:15
- So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me. Dan. 13:17
- And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within. Dan. 13:18
- And she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred. Dan. 13:30
- But those wicked men commanded that her face should be uncovered, (for she was covered) that so at least they might be satisfied with her beauty. Dan. 13:32
- And she weeping, looked up to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord. Dan. 13:35
- But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses. Dan. 13:40
- And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel: Dan. 13:45
- Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed. Dan. 5:10
- The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her. Dan. 7:4
- And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her young men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in these times. Dan. 11:6
- And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him. Dan. 11:17
- So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived, and bore him a son. Osee 1:3
- And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said to him: Call her name, Without mercy: for I will not add any more to have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them. Osee 1:6
- And she weaned her that was called Without mercy. And she conceived, and bore a son. Osee 1:8
- Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. Osee 2:2
- Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through and will kill her with drought. Osee 2:3
- For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink. Osee 2:5
- Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths. Osee 2:6
- And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband: because it was better with me then than now. Osee 2:7
- And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal. Osee 2:8
- And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her. Osee 2:12
- And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord. Osee 2:13
- And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. Osee 2:15
- And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali. Osee 2:16
- And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name. Osee 2:17
- Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up. Osee 13:16
- And pass away, O thou that dwellest in the beautiful place, covered with thy shame: she went not forth that dwelleth in the confines: the house adjoining shall receive mourning from you, which stood by herself. Mic. 1:11
- For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for evil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem. Mic. 1:12
- Therefore shall she send messengers to the inheritance of Geth: the houses of lying to deceive the kings of Israel. Mic. 1:14
- Therefore will he give them up even till the time wherein she that travaileth shall bring forth: and the remnant of his brethren shall be converted to the children of Israel. Mic. 5:3
- And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets. Mic. 7:10
- She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle. Nah. 2:10
- Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters. Nah. 3:10
- This is the glorious city that dwelt in security: that said in her heart: I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desert, a place for beasts to lie down in? every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. Soph. 2:15
- She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her God. Soph. 3:2
- Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire. Zach. 9:4
- And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill to Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses. Zach. 14:10
- And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant. Mal. 2:14
- Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth. Mal. 2:15
- And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away by reason of them and the city was made the habitation of strangers, and she became a stranger to her own seed, and her children forsook her. 1 Ma. 1:40
- All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a slave. 1 Ma. 2:11
- Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God: 2 Ma. 7:20
- And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought, 2 Ma. 7:21
- She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you. 2 Ma. 7:22
- And when he had exhorted her with many words she promised that she would counsel her son. 2 Ma. 7:26
- So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language: My son have pity upon me, that bore thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age. 2 Ma. 7:27
- While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For whom do you stay? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the commandment of the law which was given us by Moses. 2 Ma. 7:30
- Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. Mt. 1:18
- And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. Mt. 1:21
- And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and he called his name Jesus. Mt. 1:25
- And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered to them. Mt. 8:15
- As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Mt. 9:18
- For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I shall be healed. Mt. 9:21
- The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon here. Mt. 12:42
- Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him. Mt. 14:7
- But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. Mt. 14:8
- And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother. Mt. 14:11
- Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: Mt. 15:23
- But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me. Mt. 15:25
- But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters. Mt. 15:27
- Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. Mt. 20:21
- At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she be? For they all had her. Mt. 22:28
- And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me. Mt. 26:10
- For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial. Mt. 26:12
- Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her. Mt. 26:13
- And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him; and she saith to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth. Mt. 26:71
- And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. Mk. 1:31
- And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live. Mk. 5:23
- And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse, Mk. 5:26
- When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment. Mk. 5:27
- For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole. Mk. 5:28
- And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the evil. Mk. 5:29
- And immediately the damsel rose up, and walked: and she was twelve years old: and they were astonished with a great astonishment. Mk. 5:42
- Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist. Mk. 6:24
- And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist. Mk. 6:25
- For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet. Mk. 7:25
- For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. Mk. 7:26
- But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children. Mk. 7:28
- And when she was come into her house, she found the girl lying upon the bed and that the devil was gone out. Mk. 7:30
- And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery. Mk. 10:12
- In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose wife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife. Mk. 12:23
- And there came a certain poor widow: and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. Mk. 12:42
- For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living. Mk. 12:44
- And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head. Mk. 14:3
- But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me. Mk. 14:6
- She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial. Mk. 14:8
- Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memorial of her. Mk. 14:9
- And when she had seen Peter warming himself looking on him, she saith: Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. Mk. 14:67
- She went and told them that had been with him, who were mourning and weeping. Mk. 16:10
- And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren. Lk. 1:36
- And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. Lk. 1:40
- And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Lk. 1:42
- And Mary abode with her about three months. And she returned to her own house. Lk. 1:56
- Now Elizabeth's full time of being delivered was come: and she brought forth a son. Lk. 1:57
- And it came to pass that when they were there, her days were accomplished that she should be delivered. Lk. 2:6
- And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room for them in the inn. Lk. 2:7
- And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity. Lk. 2:36
- And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day. Lk. 2:37
- Now she, at the same hour, coming in, confessed to the Lord: and spoke of him to all that looked for the redemption of Israel. Lk. 2:38
- And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. Lk. 4:39
- And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Lk. 7:12
- And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment. Lk. 7:37
- And standing behind at his feet, she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Lk. 7:38
- And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner. Lk. 7:39
- And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this woman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet. But she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped them. Lk. 7:44
- Thou gavest me no kiss. But she, since she came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. Lk. 7:45
- My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment hath anointed my feet. Lk. 7:46
- Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less. Lk. 7:47
- For he had an only daughter, almost twelve years old, and she was dying. And it happened as he went that he was thronged by the multitudes. Lk. 8:42
- She came behind him and touched the hem of his garment: and immediately the issue of her blood stopped. Lk. 8:44
- And the woman seeing that she was not hid, came trembling and fell down before his feet and declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed. Lk. 8:47
- And Jesus hearing this word, answered the father of the maid: Fear not. Believe only: and she shall be safe. Lk. 8:50
- And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. Lk. 8:53
- And her spirit returned: and she arose immediately. And he bid them give her to eat. Lk. 8:55
- And she had a sister called Mary, who, sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word. Lk. 10:39
- But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? Speak to her therefore, that she help me. Lk. 10:40
- The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold more than Solomon here. Lk. 11:31
- And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look upwards at all. Lk. 13:11
- And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. Lk. 13:13
- Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it? Lk. 15:8
- And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost. Lk. 15:9
- And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary. Lk. 18:3
- Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me. Lk. 18:5
- In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? For all the seven had her to wife. Lk. 20:33
- For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her want hath cast in all the living that she had. Lk. 21:4
- Whom when a certain servant maid had seen sitting at the light and had earnestly beheld him, she said: This man also was with him. Lk. 22:56
- (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Jn. 11:2
- Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home. Jn. 11:20
- She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world. Jn. 11:27
- And when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee. Jn. 11:28
- She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to him. Jn. 11:29
- The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up speedily and went out, followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there. Jn. 11:31
- When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet and saith to him. Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Jn. 11:32
- Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial. Jn. 12:7
- A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. Jn. 16:21
- ¤ And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre: and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Jn. 20:1
- She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre: and we know not where they have laid him. Jn. 20:2
- But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, Jn. 20:11
- And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. Jn. 20:12
- They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have laid him. Jn. 20:13
- When she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing: and she knew not that it was Jesus. Jn. 20:14
- Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away. Jn. 20:15
- Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master). Jn. 20:16
- And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land for so much? And she said: Yea, for so much. Acts 5:8
- Immediately, she fell down before his feet and gave up the ghost. And the young men coming in found her dead: and carried her out and buried her by her husband. Acts 5:10
- And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. Acts 9:36
- And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died. Whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. Acts 9:37
- And they all being put forth, Peter, kneeling down, prayed. And turning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes and, seeing Peter, she sat up. Acts 9:40
- And as soon as she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for joy: but running in she told that Peter stood before the gate. Acts 12:14
- But they said to her: Thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was so. Then said they: It is his angel. Acts 12:15
- And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us. Acts 16:15
- And this she did many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit: I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go out from her. And he went out the same hour. Acts 16:18
- For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. Rom. 7:2
- Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man. Rom. 7:3
- And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father. Rom. 9:10
- That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she also hath assisted many, and myself also. Rom. 16:2
- And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. 1 Cor. 7:11
- For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away. 1 Cor. 7:12
- But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. 1 Cor. 7:28
- And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband. 1 Cor. 7:34
- But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry. 1 Cor. 7:36
- A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: only in the Lord. 1 Cor. 7:39
- But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God. 1 Cor. 7:40
- But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. 1 Cor. 11:5
- Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety. 1 Tim. 2:15
- But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day. 1 Tim. 5:5
- For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living. 1 Tim. 5:6
- Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work. 1 Tim. 5:10
- By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised, Heb. 11:11
- And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way? Jas. 2:25
- And I gave her a time that she might do penance: and she will not repent of her fornication. Apoc. 2:21
- And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in pain to be delivered. Apoc. 12:2
- And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son. Apoc. 12:4
- And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne. Apoc. 12:5
- And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her, a thousand two hundred sixty days. Apoc. 12:6
- And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Apoc. 12:14
- Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. Apoc. 18:6
- As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. Apoc. 18:7
- Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her. Apoc. 18:8
- And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate. Apoc. 18:19
- And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints. Apoc. 19:8
- as long as the land quietly kept her sabbathes, al the time of her desolation she sabbathized in the application of seuentie yeares. 3 Esd. 1:58
- and taking of the crowne from his head, and putting it vpon her self, and with the palme of her left hand she stroke the king. 3 Esd. 4:30
- And beside these thinges he with open mouth beheld her: and if she smiled he laugheth, and if she be angrie with him, he flattereth, til he be reconciled to her fauour. 3 Esd. 4:31
- Why, doe they better thinges, that inhabite Babylon? And for this shal she rule ouer Sion? (Jer. 12) 4 Esd. 3:28
- And he answered me, and sayd: Goe, and aske a woman with childe, if when she hath accomplished her nine monethes, her wombe can yet hold the infant within it? 4 Esd. 4:40
- For as she that is: In trauail maketh hast, to escape the necessitie of trauailing: so this also hasteneth to render those thinges which are commended to it. 4 Esd. 4:42
- And one countrie shal aske her neighbour, and shal say: Hath iustice doing iust passed throught thee? and she shal denie it. 4 Esd. 5:11
- And I asked, and sayd: Wheras thou hast now geuen me a way, I wil speake before thee: for our mother, of whom thou toldest me, yet she is yong: now draweth nigh to old age. 4 Esd. 5:50
- And he answered me, and sayd: Aske her that beareth children, and she wil tel thee. 4 Esd. 5:51
- And she also wil say vnto thee: They that are borne in the youth of streingth are of one sort, and they of an other, that are borne about the time of old age, when the matrice fayleth. 4 Esd. 5:53
- Behold the time shal come, and it shal be when the signes shal come, which I haue foretold thee, and the bride shal appeare, and appearing she shal be shewed that now is hid with the earth: 4 Esd. 7:26
- And he said unto me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell thee; intreat her, and she shall declare unto thee. 4 Esd. 7:54
- And when I spake these thinges in my hart, I looked backe with myne eyes, and saw a woman on the right side, and behold she mourned, and wept with a lowd voice, and was sorrowful in mynde exceedingly, and her garments rent, and ashes vpon her heade. 4 Esd. 9:38
- Why weepest thou? and why art thou sorie in mynde. And she sayd to me: 4 Esd. 9:40
- And I sayd to her, What ayleth thee: tel me. And she sayd to me: 4 Esd. 9:42
- For aske the earth, and it wil tel thee: that it is she, that ought to lament the fal of so manie thinges that spring vpon it. 4 Esd. 10:9
- And who then ought to mourne more, but she that hath lost so great a multitude, rather then thou which art sorie for one? 4 Esd. 10:11
- Goe in therfore into the citie to thy husband. And she sayd to me: 4 Esd. 10:17
- and that which is greatest of al, the seale of Sion, because she is vnsealed of her glorie: For she is also deliuered into the handes of them that hate vs. 4 Esd. 10:23
- And Behold, suddenly she put forth a great sound of a voyce ful of feare, that the earth was moued at the womans sound. And I saw: 4 Esd. 10:26
- And because she tolde thee of the fal of her sonne, this is the interpretation. 4 Esd. 10:43
- This woman which thou sawest, she is Sion, and wheras she told thee of her, whom now also thou shalt see, as a citie builded. 4 Esd. 10:44
- And whereas she told thee, that she was barren thirtie yeares: for the which there were thirtie yeares, when there was not yet oblation offered in it. 4 Esd. 10:45
- And that which she sayd vnto thee, that she nourished him with labour, this was the habitation in Ierusalem. 4 Esd. 10:47
- And wheras she sayd to thee, that my sonne comming into the bryde chamber dyed, and that a fal chanced vnto him, this was the ruine of Ierusalem that is made. 4 Esd. 10:48
- And behold, thou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her sonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue chanced, these were to be opened to thee. 4 Esd. 10:49
- And I saw, and behold she spred her winges into al the earth, and al the windes of heauen blew vpon her, and were gathered together. 4 Esd. 11:2
- For her heades were at rest, and the midle head was greater then the other heades, but she rested with them. 4 Esd. 11:4
- so shal iustice hate impietie when she adorneth herselfe, and accuseth her to her face, when he shal come that may defend him that searcheth out al vpon the earth. 4 Esd. 16:51