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NASB	Genesis 39:7 It came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."
AMPLIFIED 2015	Genesis 39:7 ¶ Then after a time his master's wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "Lie with me."

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Subject: Should a woman pursue a man?

Bible Note: A man may APPEAR to pursue courship with a woman, true enough, but way back yonder in my courtin' days, a popular song of the day had these lines, "A boy chases a girl until she catches him." That's what happened to me 46 years ago, and I'm still "caught"! :-) ..... I still remind my wife from time to time that it was one of the best decisions she ever made! ---- Back then marriage was for keeps. It still is, although fewer and fewer young people seem to honor it as such. Far more important than who pursues whom is the realization of a man and woman that marriage is a solemn lifetime committment ordained by God himself. In Genesis 2:24 in which God instituted marriage, the old King James Bible uses the phrase, "a man...shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh." Scholars of the Hebrew language tell us that the word translated "cleave" is a strong word in the original language, meaning to join together, to stick together like glue, to bond. Thus, behind the Hebrew that is translated "one flesh" lies another strong Hebrew construction which indicates a change of state essentially as dramatic as the change of state effected when (in Genesis 2:7) "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." To "be one flesh" therefore, while it certainly includes sexual union in the marriage, also means to be united in life and purpose. Many other passages of Scripture expound by precept and example upon the God-ordained institution of matrimony. However, God makes His plan clear from the beginning, in Genesis 2:24, that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. In the Genesis account of creation, God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve or Eve and Genivieve! ..... Same-sex "marriages" are not marriages in God's eyes at all. They are homosexual sins which the Bible calls perversions. Making them legal and socially acceptable does not alter in the least the fact that they are an abomination to Almighty God. --Hank