His sister stationed herself ¹  at a distance to find out ²  what would ³  happen to him.

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

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

Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), ¹  and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

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

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

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, ¹  the palace ²  he had built,

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, ¹  the palace ²  he had built,

Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation, ¹  because she has vaunted herself against the Lord.

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

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 ¹  she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

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

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.

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

“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,

“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, ¹  or she uttered ²  anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself down before David, and bowed to the ground.

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