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 

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

As much as ¹  she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, ²  to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ³  ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’

“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!

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

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,