
Genesis
3:16
Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
Exodus
21:7
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Exodus
23:17
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
Exodus
20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Judges
1:12–13
And Caleb said, He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and takes it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as wife. And Othni-el the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Leviticus
6:14–18
These are the regulations for the grain offering . . . Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest of it . . . Any male descendant of Aaron may eat it. For all generations to come it is his perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.
Numbers
5:15–31
This is the law in cases of jealousy. The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.
Jeremiah
8:9–10
Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have? Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners.
Exodus
22:29–31
You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The first-born of your sons you shall give to me. . . . You shall be men consecrated to me.
Leviticus
12:1–5
If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. . . . But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks.
Judges
8:30–31
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives. And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimʹelech.
Leviticus
27:1–7
Your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Nahum
3:4–6
Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.
Numbers
36:8–12
Females do not control their inheritance: And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. . . . They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
2 Samuel
12:11
This is what the Lord says: “Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.”
Deuteronomy
22:20–21
But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death.
Numbers
31:17–18
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers
30:1–8,16
Daughters cannot make promises: When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or obligates herself by a pledge and . . . her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
Numbers
31:25–35
Virgins are war booty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take the sum of the prey that was taken. . . . And the booty . . . thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
Deuteronomy
24:1—4
Non-virgins are “defiled”: When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house . . . then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled.
Judges
5:30
Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two?
Job
25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Ezekiel
36:16–17
Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.
Job
14:1–4
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. . . . Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Lamentations
1:8–9
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned . . . Her filthiness is in her skirts.
Isaiah
19:16
In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
Hosea
9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved a harlot’s hire upon all threshing floors.