older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.

The most rewarded ¹  of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

Do not give your strength ¹  to women, nor your ways ²  to that which ruins ³  kings.

In this way ¹  they will train ²  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live? ¹ 

They raped ¹  women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; ¹  one will be taken and one left.

“Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

Not counting children and women, ¹  there were four thousand men who ate. ² 

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

They ¹  had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

Many ¹  women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support ²  were also there, watching from a distance.

The Lord who rules over all ¹  told me to say to this people, ²  “Take note of what I say. ³  Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” ⁴ 

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew ¹  women are not like the Egyptian women – for the Hebrew women ²  are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!” ³ 

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled ¹  spun goats’ hair.

Queen Vashti ¹  also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus’ royal palace.

There will be two women grinding grain together; ¹  one will be taken and the other left.” ² 

A great number of the people followed him, among them women ¹  who were mourning ²  and wailing for him.