and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.” But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.
But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.
And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
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