The wisest of her ladies ¹  answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,

For she kept saying to herself, ¹  “If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.” ² 

She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired ¹  – with all their idols.

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects ¹  and will be able to bear children.

She makes for herself coverlets; ¹  her clothing is fine linen and purple. ² 

She begins ¹  her work vigorously, and she strengthens ²  her arms.

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, ¹  “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, ²  especially when my husband is old too?” ³ 

If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death. ¹ 

Let us rejoice ¹  and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,

So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because ¹  she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.) ² 

and her father hears of her vow or the obligation to which she has pledged herself, and her father remains silent about her, ¹  then all her vows will stand, ²  and every obligation to which she has pledged herself will stand.

“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact. ¹ 

Then the Lord said to me, “Under the circumstances, wayward Israel could even be considered less guilty than unfaithful Judah. ¹ 

“If a young ¹  woman who is still living ²  in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

and if jealous feelings ¹  come over him and he becomes suspicious ²  of his wife, when she is defiled; ³  or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled –

“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, ¹  when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

After some time ¹  his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, ²  and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. ³  She said, ⁴ 

But as soon as she springs up, ¹  she laughs at the horse and its rider.