Gen 1:27-28, 2:21, 24, Lev 21:13-15, 2Ki 22:14, Pro 5:15-23, Isa 8:3 | ESV | STEP | So God created man in his own image , in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
^amale and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, ^b“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 2:21

21 So the Lord God caused a ^cdeep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

Genesis 2:24

24 ^dTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Leviticus 21:13-15

13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. ^{▼▼Or a young wife} 14 A widow, ^for a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin ^{▼▼Hebrew young woman} of his own people, 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for ^hI am the Lord who sanctifies him.”

2 Kings 22:14

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of ⁱTikvah, son of ^jHarhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in ^kthe Second Quarter), and they talked with her.

Proverbs 5:15-23

15 Drink ^lwater from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your ^msprings be scattered abroad,
streams of water ⁿin the streets?
17 ^oLet them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your ^pfountain be blessed,
and ^qrejoice in ^rthe wife of your youth,
19 a lovely ^sdeer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts ^tfill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated ^{▼▼Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20} always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with ^va forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of ^wan adulteress? ^{▼▼Hebrew a foreign woman}
21 For ^ya man’s ways are ^zbefore the eyes of the Lord,
and he ^aaponders ^{▼▼Or makes level} all his paths.
22 The ^aciniquities of the wicked ^adensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
23 ^aeHe dies for lack of discipline,
and because of his great folly he is ^afled astray.

Isaiah 8:3

3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, ^ag“Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;