Lamekh took two wives: the name of the one was `Adah, and the name of the other Tzillah.
Genesis 2:24 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [Matt. 19:5; I Cor. 6:16; Eph. 5:31-33.] American Standard Version (1901) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Common English Bible This is the reason that a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife, and they become one flesh. Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. |
Lamekh took two wives: the name of the one was `Adah, and the name of the other Tzillah.
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.
But you who did cleave to the LORD your God are alive everyone of you this day.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
David also took Achino'am of Yizre`el; and they became both of them his wives.