When Shechem(A) son of Hamor(B) the Hivite,(C) the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.(D)

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“If my heart has been enticed(A) by a woman,(B)
    or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

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28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(A)

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20 Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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31 “I made a covenant with my eyes(A)
    not to look lustfully at a young woman.(B)

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Samson’s Marriage

14 Samson(A) went down to Timnah(B) and saw there a young Philistine woman.

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10 In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;(A) in you are those who violate women during their period,(B) when they are ceremonially unclean.(C) 11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,(D) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,(E) and another violates his sister,(F) his own father’s daughter.(G)

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One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof(A) of the palace. From the roof he saw(B) a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,

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24 Look, here is my virgin daughter,(A) and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”

25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her(B) and abused her(C) throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

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29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:29 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams

24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.(A)

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14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.(A)

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So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care;(A) with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,(B) and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”(C)

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19 For a hundred pieces of silver,[a] he bought from the sons of Hamor,(A) the father of Shechem,(B) the plot of ground(C) where he pitched his tent.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:19 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.(A)” Then Abimelek(B) king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.(C)

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the sons of God(A) saw that the daughters(B) of humans were beautiful,(C) and they married(D) any of them they chose.

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