my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.-Gen. 1. 5.

And Joseph went up to bury his father...7.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God. giveth thee.-Ex. xx. 12.

He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.-Ex. xxi. 15.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.-17.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, ...I am the Lord your God.-Lev. xix. 3.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.— Deut. xxvii. 16.

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee ?-Judg. xiv. 16.

And David went...to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.-1 Sam. xxii. 3.

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father...1 Kings iii. 3.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :-Prov. i. 8.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.-9.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.—Prov. iv. 1.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother :-Prov. vi. 20.

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.-21.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.-Prov. x. 1.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction... Prov. xiii. 1.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.-Prov. xv. 5.

A foolish man despiseth his mother.-20. ...The glory of children are their fathers.-Prov. xvii. 6. A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.-25.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father... Prov. xix. 13.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.-26.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.-Prov. xx. 20. Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.-Prov. xxiii. 22.

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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.—Prov. xxiii. 24.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.-25.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not...Prov. xxvii. 10.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.-Prov. xxviii. 24.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father...Prov. xxix. 3.

...Her children arise up, and call her blessed.Prov. xxxi. 28.

A son honoureth his father... Mal. i. 6.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:-Mal. iv. 5.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.-6.

THE SACRED TIE OF MARRIAGE.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.-Gen. ii. 18.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.-22.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.-23.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.-24.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.-Gen. xx. 2.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.-3.

...I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me.-6.

...The thing proceedeth from the Lord:... Gen. xxiv. 50. Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken.-51.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.-67.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife ... Ex. xx. 17.

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, beside the other in her life time.-Lev. xviii. 18.

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.Deut. xxiv. 5.

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord ;Ps. cxxviii. 1.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.-3.

...Rejoice with the wife of thy youth.-Prov. v. 18.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe...19. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness to his bones.-Prov. xii. 4.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.-Prov. xviii. 22.