Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: {shall...: Heb. saying shall say}
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
If he take him another {wife}; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. {curseth: or, revileth}
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart {from her}, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges {determine}.
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. {pay: Heb. weigh}