Then Adonai Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let Me make a well-matched helper for him.”
Proverbs 18:22 - Tree of Life Version Whoever finds a wife finds good, and receives favor from Adonai. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favour of the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who finds a [true] wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. [Prov. 19:14; 31:10.] American Standard Version (1901) Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah. Common English Bible He who finds a wife finds what is good, gaining favor from the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version He who has found a good wife has found goodness, and he shall draw contentment from the Lord. He who expels a good wife expels goodness. But he who holds on to an adulteress is foolish and impious. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked. |
Then Adonai Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let Me make a well-matched helper for him.”
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, took Rebekah and she became his wife—and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after the loss of his mother.
So Jacob did; he also completed this one’s bridal week. Then he gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
A virtuous wife is her husband’s crown, but a dishonoring one is like rottenness in his bones.
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Adonai.
Live joyously with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life that He has given you under the sun during all your fleeting days—for this is your portion in life and in your toil that you labor under the sun.
Since Gilead is full of iniquity, they are utterly worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls— even their altars will become heaps of rocks along the furrows of My field.”
But because of much immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased over his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his town. You are witnesses today.”