Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of emptiness, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of emptiness, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the dead on his property, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his relatives and from the gate of his hometown. Y’all are witnesses today.”