For I have known him, so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him, even they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.
And they shall not take a widow or a divorcee for wives for themselves, but they shall only take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
And did He not make you one? And the vestige of the Spirit is to him. And what of the one? He was seeking a seed of God; even guard your spirit, and do not act deceitfully with the wife of your youth.
In the days of Herod the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily course of Abijah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
And we exhort you, brothers, to admonish the disobedient ones, comfort the ones being faint-hearted, sustain the ones being weak, be long-suffering towards all.
knowing this, that Law is not laid down for a righteous one, but for lawless and insubordinate ones, for ungodly and sinful ones, for unholy and profane ones, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers,
And Eli was very old and had heard all that his sons did to Israel, and they lay with the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.