Ye husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them according to knowledge,—as unto a weaker vessel, unto the female vessel , assigning honour, as joint—inheritors also of life’s favour,—to the end that unhindered may be, your prayers.
If however anyone considereth it behaving unseemly towards his virginity, if he should be beyond the bloom of life,—and, thus, it ought to come about, what he chooseth, let him do,—he sinneth not: let them marry:
So the man gave names to all the tame-beasts, and to the birds of the heavens, and to all the wild-beasts of the field,—but, for man, had there not been found a helper as his counterpart.