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is to him; but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; because her hair is given to her for a covering. God is not of disorder, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be in submission, as the law also says. And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man. Let women cease the idle talk from their mouths, and the whisperings, remembering how the evil one, having whispered to Eve, cast her out of paradise.

TITLE 10. -Concerning women giving birth; if she bears a male child. for 40 days she shall not

enter the house of the Lord; but if a female, for eighty. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say

to them, saying: If any woman has conceived seed, and born a male child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of the separation of her menstruation. And on the eighth day you shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin; and for thirty-three days she shall sit in her unclean blood; she shall touch no holy thing, and she shall not enter the sanctuary, until the days of her purification are fulfilled. But if she bears a female child, she shall be unclean two times seven days according to her separation; and for sixty-six days she shall sit in her unclean blood. Infants in the womb are by nature brought to life in seven months, as something most paradoxical happens. For seven-month-olds become viable, while eight-month-olds are generally unable to be brought to life.

TITLE 11. -Concerning a brave and prudent woman.

He withdrew on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite. And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him: Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; do not be afraid. And he turned in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a mantle. And Sisera said to her: Give me, I pray you, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened the skin of milk, and gave him drink, and put a mantle on him. And Sisera said to her: Stand now at 95.1316 the door of the tent, and it shall be, if anyone comes to you and asks you if there is a man here, you shall say: There is not. And Jael took the peg of the tent, and put the hammer in her hand, and went in to him secretly, and drove the peg into his temple, and it passed through into the ground. And he convulsed between her knees, and grew cold, and died. And, behold, Barak pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him, and said to him: Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He went in to her, and, behold, Sisera cast down dead, and the peg in his temple. Blessed among women be Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in tents may she be blessed. He asked for water, and she gave milk in a lordly bowl. Abimelech drew near to the gate of the tower to burn it with fire; and a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull. And he cried quickly to the young man who bore his armor, and said to him: Draw your sword, and kill me, lest they say that a woman killed him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. Michal his wife told David, saying: If you do not save his life this night, tomorrow you will be put to death. And Michal let David down through the window, and he went away, and fled, and was saved. Abigail said to David: Upon me, my lord, be the iniquity. Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your ears. Let not my lord set his heart on this pestilent man, for foolishness is with him.

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αὐτῷ ἐστι· γυνὴ δὲ ἐὰν κομᾷ, δόξα αὐτῇ ἐστιν; ὅτι ἡ κόμη ἀντὶ περιβολαίου αὐτῇ διδόται. Οὐκ ἔστιν ἀκαταστασίας ὁ Θεὸς, ἀλλ' εἰρήνης, ὡς ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις τῶν ἁγίων. Αἱ γυναῖκες ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις σιγάτωσαν· οὐ γὰρ ἐπιτρέπεται αὐταῖς λαλεῖν, ἀλλ' ὑποτάσσεσθαι, καθὼς καὶ ὁ νόμος λέγει. Εἰ δέ τι μαθεῖν ἐθέλουσιν, ἐν οἴκῳ τοὺς ἰδίους ἄνδρας ἐπερωτάτωσαν. Αἰσχρὸν γάρ ἐστι γυναικὶ λαλεῖν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ. Γυνὴ ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ μανθανέτω ἐν πάσῃ ὑποταγῇ. ∆ιδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ οὐκ ἐπιτρέπω, οὐδὲ αὐθεντεῖν ἀνδρός. Αἱ γυναῖκες τὰς φλυαρίας ἐκ τῶν στομάτων αὐτῶν παυσάτωσαν, καὶ τοὺς ψιθυρισμοὺς, μνημονεύουσαι πῶς τῇ Εὔᾳ ψιθυρίσας ὁ πονηρὸς, ἐξέβαλε τοῦ παραδείσου.

ΤΙΤΛ. Ιʹ. -Περὶ γυναικῶν κυϊσκουσῶν· ἐὰν μὲν ἄρσεν τέκῃ. ἐπὶ μʹ ἡμέρας οὐκ

εἰσελεύσεται εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου· εἰ δὲ θῆλυ, ἐπὶ ὀγδοήκοντα. Ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωϋσῆν λέγων· Λάλησον τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐρεῖς

πρὸς αὐτοὺς, λέγων· Γυνὴ εἴ τις ἂν σπερματισθῇ, καὶ τέκῃ ἄῤῥεν, ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας, κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ χωρισμοῦ τῆς ἀφέδρου αὐτῆς. Καὶ τῇ ἡμέρας τῇ ὀγδόῃ περιτεμεῖς τὴν σάρκα τῆς ἀκροβυστίας αὐτοῦ· καὶ τριάκοντα καὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἐν αἵματι ἀκαθάρτῳ αὐτῆς καθεσθήσεται· παντὸς ἁγίου οὐχ ἅψεται, καὶ εἰς τὸ ἁγιαστήριον οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται, ἕως οὗ πληρωθῶσιν αἱ ἡμέραι καθάρσεως αὐτῆς. Εἰ δὲ θῆλυ τέκῃ, ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται δὶς ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας κατὰ τὴν ἄφεδρον αὐτῆς· καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ ἓξ καθεσθήσεται ἐν αἵματι ἀκαθάρτῳ αὐτῆς. Τὰ κατὰ γαστρὸς βρέφη μησὶν ἑπτὰ ζωογονεῖσθαι πέφυκεν, ὡς παραδοξότατόν τι συμβαίνειν. Γίνεται γὰρ ἑπτάμηνα ἀγώγιμα, τῶν ὀκταμήνων ἐπίπαν ζωογονεῖσθαι μὴ δυναμένων.

ΤΙΤΛ. ΙΑʹ. -Περὶ γυναικὸς ἀνδρείας καὶ σώφρονος.

Ἀνεχώρησε τοῖς ποσὶν εἰς σκηνὴν Ἰαὴλ γυναικὸς Χαβὴρ τοῦ Κιναίου. Καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰαὴλ εἰς συνάντησιν Σισάρα, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ἔκκλινον, κύριέ μου, ἔκκλινον πρός με· μὴ φοβοῦ. Καὶ ἐξέκλινε πρὸς αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ, καὶ περιέβαλεν αὐτὸν ἐπιβολαίῳ. Καὶ εἶπε Σισάρα πρὸς αὐτήν· Πότισον δή με μικρὸν ὕδωρ, ὅτι ἐδίψησα. Καὶ ἤνοιξε τὸν ἀσκὸν τοῦ γάλακτος, καὶ ἐπότισεν αὐτὸν, καὶ περιέβαλεν αὐτῷ ἐπιβόλαιον. Καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτὴν Σισάρα· Στῆθι δὴ ἐπὶ 95.1316 τὴν θύραν τῆς σκηνῆς, καὶ ἔσται ἐάν τις ἔλθῃ πρὸς σὲ, καὶ ἐρωτήσῃ σε, εἰ ἔστιν ὧδε ἀνὴρ, ἐρεῖς· Οὐκ ἔστι. Καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἰαὴλ τὸν πάσσαλον τῆς σκηνῆς, καὶ ἔθηκε τὴν σφύραν ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτῆς, καὶ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐν κρυφῇ, καὶ ἔπηξε τὸν πάσσαλον ἐν τῇ γνάθῳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ διεξῆλθεν ἐν τῇ γῇ. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπεσκάρησεν ἀναμέσον τῶν γονάτων αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀπέψυξε, καὶ ἀπέθανε. Καὶ ἰδοὺ Βαρὰκ διώκων τὸν Σισάρα, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰαὴλ εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτόν· ∆εῦρο, καὶ δείξω σοι τὸν ἄνδρα ὃν σὺ ζητεῖς. Εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὴν, καὶ ἰδοὺ Σισάρα ἐῤῥιμμένος νεκρὸς, καὶ πάσσαλος ἐν τῇ γνάθῳ αὐτοῦ. Εὐλογηθείη ἐν γυναιξὶ Ἰαὴλ, γυνὴ Χάβερ τοῦ Κιναίου ἀπὸ γυναικῶν, ἐν σκηναῖς εὐλογηθείη. Ὕδωρ ᾔτησε, καὶ γάλα ἔδωκεν ἐν λεκάνῃ ὑπερεχόντων. Ἤγγισεν Ἀβιμέλεχ ἕως τῆς πύλης τοῦ πύργου ἐμπρῆσαι αὐτὴν ἐν πυρί· καὶ ἔῤῥιψε γυνὴ μία κλάσμα ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἀβιμέλεχ, καὶ συνέκλασε τὸ κρανίον αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἐβόησε ταχὺ πρὸς τὸ παιδάριον τὸ αἶρον τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Σπᾶσον τὴν ῥομφαίαν σου, καὶ θανάτωσόν με, μήποτε εἴπωσιν ὅτι γυνὴ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτόν. Καὶ ἐξεκέντησεν αὐτὸν τὸ παιδάριον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν. Ἀπήγγειλε ∆αβὶδ Μελχὸλ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ, λέγουσα· Ἐὰν μὴ σὺ σώσῃς τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ τὴν νύκτα ταύτην, αὔριον θανατωθήσῃ. Καὶ κατάγει ἡ Μελχὸλ τὸν ∆αβὶδ διὰ τῆς θυρίδος, καὶ ἀπῆλθε, καὶ ἔφυγε, καὶ σώζεται. Εἶπεν Ἀβιγαία πρὸς ∆αβίδ· Ἐν ἐμοὶ, κύριε, ἡ ἀδικία. Λαλησάτω δὴ ἡ δούλη σου εἰς τὰ ὦτά σου. Μὴ θέσθω ὁ κύριός μου τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν λοιμὸν τοῦτον, καὶ ἀφροσύνη μετ' αὐτοῦ.