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28There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

14I will not send afflictions on your daughters, when they will commit fornication, nor on your spouses, when they will commit adultery, because you yourselves have associated with harlots and have offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and because the people who do not understand will be defeated.

11Woe to the impious man immersed in evil! For retribution will be given to him from his own hands. 12As for my people, their oppressors have despoiled them, and women have ruled over them. My people, who call you blessed, the same are deceiving you and disrupting the path of your steps.

4For I led you out of the land of Egypt, and I freed you from the house of servitude, and I sent before your face Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam.

38Now it happened that, while they were traveling, he entered into a certain town. And a certain woman, named Martha, received him into her home. 39And she had a sister, named Mary, who, while sitting beside the Lord’s feet, was listening to his word. 40Now Martha was continually busying herself with serving. And she stood still and said: “Lord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, speak to her, so that she may help me.” 41And the Lord responded by saying to her: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled over many things. 42And yet only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the best portion, and it shall not be taken away from her.”

18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”

26And so, he began to act faithfully in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila had heard him, they took him aside and expounded the Way of the Lord to him more thoroughly.

28Who is the father of rain, or who conceived the drops of dew? 29From whose womb did the ice proceed, and who created the frost from the air? 30The waters are hardened to become like stone, and the surface of the abyss freezes over.

9But he, rising early on the first Sabbath, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

14Therefore, Hilkiah, the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah, the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the vestments, who was living in Jerusalem, in the second part. And they spoke with her.

24Blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. And blessed is she in her tabernacle. 25He begged her for water, and she gave him milk, and she offered him butter in a dish fit for princes. 26She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman’s mallet. And she struck Sisera, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing his temples. 27Between her feet, he was ruined. He fainted away and passed on. He curled up before her feet, and he lay there lifeless and miserable.

52And Abimelech, drawing near the tower, fought valiantly. And approaching the gate, he strove to set it on fire. 53And behold, one woman, throwing a fragment of a millstone from above, struck the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.