Younger Sister

And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

• Titus
• Diligence
• Joy

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.