Amor de casal
O amor de casal é celebrado na Bíblia como dom sagrado. O Cântico dos Cânticos exalta a beleza do amor conjugal — íntimo, exclusivo e forte como a morte.
Keep me close to you,
like [SIM] a seal on your heart,
or like [SIM] a bracelet on your arm.
Our love for each other is as powerful as death,
it is as enduring as the grave.
It is as though our love for each other bursts into flames
and burns like a hot fire.
Nothing can extinguish our love for each other,
not even a flood.
If a man tried to cause a woman to love him by saying he would give her everything that is in his house,
she would refuse.
My bride [DOU], you who are dearer to me than my sister, you have captured my affection [IDM]
by only once quickly looking at me,
and by one strand of jewels in your necklace.
The young woman speaks to her lover
Kiss me on my lips,
because your love for me is more delightful than wine.
The fragrance of the cologne on your skin is very sweet/pleasing [CHI].
And your reputation is very good and spreads,
like [SIM] the fragrance of the special oil spread on your skin.
That is why the other young women are attracted to you.
The man speaks
You whom I love, you are beautiful;
you are very beautiful!
Your eyes are as delightful/charming as doves.
The woman replies
You who love me, you are very delightful/handsome,
you are wonderful!
This green grass will be like a couch where we lie down.
Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him."
Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man. The man exclaimed, "Wow! This is truly ◄someone like me/what I was looking for!► She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man."
The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
If you marry a good woman, that is like finding a wonderful thing;
it shows that Yahweh is pleased with you.
Let your wife be a source of great pleasure to you.
◄Be happy/Enjoy sex► with the woman whom you married when you were both young.
She is as pretty and graceful as a young female deer.
Allow her breasts to always satisfy you.
Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman!
Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
Consequently, although they functioned as two separate people before, they now become as if they were one person [MET]. Since that is true, a man must not separate from his wife whom God has joined to him, because it is God’s plan for them to remain together."
Those who [PRS] truly love others act patiently and kindly toward them. Those who [PRS] truly love others are not jealous of them, they do not boast about what they themselves have done, and are not proud. Those who [PRS] truly love others do not act in disgraceful/disrespectful ways towards them. They do not ◄act selfishly/think only of themselves and what they want►. They do not quickly become angry. They do not keep remembering the bad things that others have done to them. Those who [PRS] truly love others do not rejoice when people do evil things, but they do rejoice when people act righteously. Those who truly love others patiently put up withthe faults of others. They do not quickly assume that others have done something bad. They confidently expect that others will act righteously. They patiently endure all their own troubles.
In the same way, each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. Men who love their wives, it is as though they love themselves. This is shown by the fact that no one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds his own body and cares for it, just like Christ also cares for all us believers. We have become one group of believers that belongs to him [MET].
However, as for you(pl), each man must love his wife just as he loves himself, and each woman must respect her husband.
And what is more important than all of these is that you love one another, because by doing that you will be perfectly united together.
Having someone work with you is better than being by yourself all the time.
If you have a friend, he can help you to do your work.
If you fall down, he can help you get up again.
But if you fall down when you are alone, it will be difficult for you,
because there will be no one to help you stand up.
Similarly, if two people sleep together,
they can keep each other warm.
But someone who sleeps alone will certainly not [RHQ] be warm.
Someone who is alone can easily be attacked and defeated by another person,
but two people can help each other and ◄resist/defend themselves against► someone who attacks them.
Three people can defend themselves even more easily,
like a rope that is made from three cords is harder to break than a rope made from two cords.
It is certainly [RHQ] Yahweh who joined you together. Your spirits and your bodies belong to him. So what he wants [RHQ] from you are godly children. So make sure that each of you men remain ◄with/loyal to► the woman that you married when you were young.
Various laws
"When some man has recently become married, he must not be required to become a soldier in the army or be required to do any other work for the government for one year after being married. He should stay happily at home with his wife for that year.