1) Divinely instituted
Genesis 2:24

2) A covenant relationship
Maleachi 2:4

3) DESIGNED FOR
3a) The happiness of man
Genesis 2:18

3b) Increasing the human population
Genesis 1:28 Genesis 9:1

3c) Raising up godly seed
Maleachi 2:15

3d) Preventing fornication
1 Korintiërs 7:2

4) The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to,
in the early age
Genesis 3:15 Genesis 4:1

5) Lawful in all
1 Korintiërs 7:2 1 Korintiërs 7:28 1 Timotheüs 5:14

6) Honourable for all
Hebreeën 13:4

7) Should be only in the Lord
1 Korintiërs 7:39

8) EXPRESSED BY
8a) Joining together
Mattheüs 19:6

8b) Making affinity
1 Koningen 3:1

8c) Taking to wife
Exodus 2:1

8d) Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters
Deuteronium 7:3 Ezra 9:12

9) Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties
Mattheüs 19:6 Romeinen 7:2-3 1 Korintiërs 7:39

10) Early introduction of polygamy
Genesis 4:19

11) Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations
Genesis 20:12 Genesis 24:24 Genesis 28:2

12) Often contracted by parents for children
Genesis 24:49-51 Genesis 34:6 Genesis 34:8

13) Should be with consent of parents
Genesis 28:8 Judas 14:2-3

14) Consent of the parties necessary to
Genesis 24:57-58 1 Samuel 18:20 1 Samuel 25:41

15) Parents might refuse to give their children in
Exodus 22:17 Deuteronium 7:3

16) THE JEWS
16a) Forbidden to contract, with their near relations
Leviticus 18:6

16b) Forbidden to contract with idolaters
Deuteronium 7:3-4 Jozua 23:12 Ezra 9:11-12

16c) Often contracted with foreigners
1 Koningen 11:1 Nehemia 13:23

16d) Sometimes guilty of polygamy
1 Koningen 11:1 1 Koningen 11:3

16e) Careful in contracting for their children
Genesis 24:2-3 Genesis 28:1-2

16f) Betrothed themselves some time before
Deuteronium 20:7 Judas 14:7-8 Mattheüs 1:18

16g) Contracted when young
Prediker 2:17 Joël 1:8

16h) Often contracted, in their own tribe
Exodus 2:1 Numeri 36:6-13 Lukas 1:5 Lukas 1:27

16i) Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed
Deuteronium 25:5 Mattheüs 22:24

16j) Considered being debarred from, a reproach
Jesaja 4:1

16k) Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief
Judas 11:38

16l) Often punished by being debarred from
Jeremia 7:34 Jeremia 16:9 Jeremia 25:10

16m) Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts
Deuteronium 24:1 Mattheüs 19:7-8

16n) Exempted from going to war immediately after
Deuteronium 20:7

17) Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper persons
Leviticus 21:7

18) The high priest not to contract, with a widow or
a divorced or profane person
Leviticus 21:14

19) Contracted at the gate and before witnesses
Ruth 4:10-11

20) Modes of demanding women in
Genesis 24:3-4 Genesis 34:6 Genesis 34:8 1 Samuel 25:39-40

21) Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger
Genesis 29:26

22) A dowry given to the woman's parents before
Genesis 29:18 Genesis 34:12 1 Samuel 18:27-28 Hosea 3:2

23) CELEBRATED
23a) With great rejoicing
Jeremia 33:11 Johannes 3:29

23b) With feasting
Genesis 29:22 Judas 14:10 Mattheüs 22:2-3 Johannes 2:1-10

23c) For seven days
Judas 14:12

24) A benediction pronounced after
Genesis 24:60 Ruth 4:11-12

25) THE BRIDE
25a) Received presents before
Genesis 24:53

25b) Given a handmaid at
Genesis 24:59 Genesis 29:24 Genesis 29:29

25c) Adorned with jewels for
Jesaja 49:18 Jesaja 61:10

25d) Gorgeously apparelled
Psalm 45:13-14

25e) Attended by bridesmaids
Psalm 45:9

25f) Stood on the right of bridegroom
Psalm 45:9

25g) Called to forget her father's house
Psalm 45:10

26) THE BRIDEGROOM
26a) Adorned with ornaments
Jesaja 61:10

26b) Attended by many friends
Judas 14:11 Johannes 3:29

26c) Presented with gifts
Psalm 45:12

26d) Crowned with garlands
Hooglied 3:11

26e) Rejoiced over the bride
Jesaja 62:5

26f) Returned with the bride to his house at night
Mattheüs 25:1-6

27) Garments provided for guests at
Mattheüs 22:12

28) Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married
Deuteronium 22:23-24 Mattheüs 1:19

29) ILLUSTRATIVE OF
29a) God's union with the Jewish nation
Jesaja 54:5 Jeremia 3:14 Hosea 2:19-20

29b) Christ's union with his church
Efeziës 5:23-24 Efeziës 5:32