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If men gather gold and silver or any other beautiful thing, and then see a woman lovely in appearance and beauty,
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they let all those things go, and gape at her, and with open mouths stare at her, and all prefer her to gold or silver or any other beautiful thing.
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A man leaves his own father, who brought him up, and his own country, and cleaves to his wife.
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With his wife he ends his days, with no thought of his father or his mother or his country.
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Hence you must realize that women rule over you! "Do you not labor and toil, and bring everything and give it to women?
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.