Daughter-in-law

• Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai, and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But they stopped instead at the village of Haran and settled there. - Genesis 11:31

Then Judah told Tamar, his daughter-in-law. not to marry again at that time but to return to her parents' home. She was to remain a widow until his youngest son, Shelah, was old enough to marry her. (But Judah didn't really intend to do this because he was afraid Shelah would also die, like his two brothers.) So Tamar went home to her parents. - Genesis 38:11

So he stopped and propositioned her to sleep with him, not realizing that she was his own daughter-in-law. "How much will you pay me?" Tamar asked. - Genesis 38:16

About three months later, word reached Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law. was pregnant as a result of prostitution. "Bring her out and burn her!" Judah shouted. - Genesis 38:24

Do not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law ; she is your son's wife. - Leviticus 18:15

If a man has intercourse with his daughter-in-law. both must be put to death. They have acted contrary to nature and are guilty of a capital offense. - Leviticus 20:12

So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. - Ruth 1:22

"May the LORD bless him!" Naomi told her daughter-in-law. "He is showing his kindness to us as well as to your dead husband.* That man is one of our closest relatives, one of our family redeemers."2 - Ruth 2:20

May this child restore your youth and care for you in your old age. For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you so much and who has been better to you than seven sons!" - Ruth 4:15

Eli's daughter-in-law. the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near her time of delivery. When she heard that the Ark of God had been captured and that her husband and father-in-law were dead, her labor pains suddenly began. - 1 Samuel 4:19

Later Judah had twin sons through Tamar, his widowed daughter-in-law. Their names were Perez and Zerah. So Judah had five sons in all. - 1 Chronicles 2:4

For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother. The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right in your own household. - Micah 7:6

I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. - Matthew 10:35

There will be a division between father and son, mother and daughter, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law ." - Luke 12:53

New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers .