SRF Self Relating to Family

Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."

She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he said to me, 'You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.'"

So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

She said to her, "All that you say I will do."

She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law told her.

She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done to her.

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He turned aside, and sat down.

He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's.

I thought to disclose it to you, saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it."

Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the [way of] attestation in Israel.

So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." He took off his shoe.

Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day."

When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

[Beloved] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live," says Yahweh, "you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.

One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."

When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"

Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,