Löydetty 230 Tulokset: Women's Rights

• For the women the queen, Vasthi, held a banquet too, in Assuerus’ own palace. (Esther 1, 9)

• All our women-folk will hear what she has done, and all will set their husbands at defiance, reminding them how king Assuerus sent for queen Vasthi, and she would not come. (Esther 1, 17)

• It would be well if commissioners were sent into all the provinces, to look out fair damsels that are maidens still, and bring them here to Susan. There let them be handed over to the chamberlain Egeus, that has charge of the women’s quarters in the palace, and an allowance be made them for adding art to their beauty, and for all else they need. (Esther 2, 3)

• All through his dominions the couriers went out on their errand, bearing death and ruin to all the Jews, to young and old, to women and little children with the rest. The day fixed for their massacre and the seizing of their goods was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar. (Esther 3, 13)

• The sport of ill-chance, how little I love the proud emblem of royalty I must wear before the world! Loathsome to me as the rags we women cast aside, how gladly I tear it from my brow, in this cool hour! (Esther 14, 16)

• But two rights I claim, if I am to face thee openly; (Job 13, 20)

• Guests that dwell in my house, ay, and the very serving-women, stare at me, the alien, the unknown; (Job 19, 15)

• Here is Job telling us that he is innocent, that God denies him his rights, (Job 34, 5)

• Nowhere might women be found fair as Job’s daughters, and each had the same patrimony as her brothers. (Job 42, 15)

• women and children carried off into slavery, cattle driven away. (1 Maccabees 1, 34)

• took children and women-folk and cattle with them, and settled down there, castaways in a flood of misfortune. (1 Maccabees 2, 30)

• nor claim I any rights over the citadel there, I make it over to the high priest, to garrison it as he will. (1 Maccabees 10, 32)