Gen 29:21, 23, 31, Judg 15:1-2, Eph 5:28-29 | ESV | STEP | Then Jacob said to Laban , Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed .

Genesis 29:21

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”

Genesis 29:23

23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.

Genesis 29:31

Jacob’s Children

31 When the Lord saw that Leah was ^ahated, ^bhe opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Judges 15:1-2

Samson Defeats the Philistines

1 After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with ^ca young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. 2 And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, ^dso I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

Ephesians 5:28-29

28 In the same way ^ehusbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,