Gen 3:16, Num 30:3-13, Est 1:17-20, 1Cor 14:21 | 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

k ch. 8:8; Dan. 6:8, 12, 15

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

mSee John 10:34

nCited from Isa. 28:11, 12; [Deut. 28:49]

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 30:3-13

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. 13 Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, ^{▼▼Or to fast} her husband may establish, ^{▼▼Or may allow to stand} or her husband may make void.

Esther 1:17-20

17 For the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’ 18 This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will say the same to all the king’s officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty. 19 If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so ^kthat it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she. 20 So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, ^lall women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”

1 Corinthians 14:21

21 ^mIn the Law it is written, ⁿ“By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”