and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.
doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if `it is' a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;
Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;
From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?
for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,
The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.