Quotes about Culture

then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”

But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.