Gen 3:16, Num 30:3-12, Est 1:20 | ESV | STEP | To the woman he said , I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing ; in pain you shall bring forth children . Your desire shall be contrary to your husband , but he shall rule over you.

a[John 16:21]

b ch. 4:7; Song 7:10

d 1 Cor. 11:3; 14:34; Eph. 5:22-24; Col. 3:18; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12; Titus 2:5; 1 Pet. 3:1, 5, 6

e Ps. 56:12

f[See ver. 6 above]

g ver. 12

h ver. 8

i[Eph. 5:22, 24, 33; Col. 3:18; 1 Tim. 2:12; 1 Pet. 3:1]

Genesis 3:16

16 To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
^ain pain you shall bring forth children.
^bYour desire shall be contrary to ^{▼▼Or shall be toward (see 4:7)} your husband,
but he shall ^drule over you.”

Numbers 30:3-12

Women and Vows

3 “If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth, 4 and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. 5 But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.

6 “If she marries a husband, while under her ^evows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself, 7 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. 8 But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her ^fvow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. ^gAnd the Lord will forgive her. 9 (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.) 10 And if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath, 11 and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. 12 But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and ^hthe Lord will forgive her.

Esther 1:20

20 So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, ⁱall women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”