15 And if it be displeasing in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
24 Therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they become one flesh.
24 Therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help suitable for him.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
22 Whoso hath found a wife hath found happiness, and hath obtained favor from the Lord.
9 Two are better than one; because they will have a good reward for their toil.
15 And not one doth so who hath a remnant of a good spirit; for what desireth such a one? he seeketh to possess a godly posterity: therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none of you deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply thereon.