¹⁸ “‘Do not take your wife’s sister^(A) as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

¹⁵ Has not the one God made you?^(A) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.^[a](B) So be on your guard,^(C) and do not be unfaithful^(D) to the wife of your youth.

¹⁵ But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough^(A) that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?”

“Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”^(B)

²⁸ And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.^(A)

⁶ Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.^{(A) 7} This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.^{(B) 8} Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?^(C)”

¹⁹ Lamech married^(A) two women,^(B) one named Adah and the other Zillah.

³ Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.