Households

If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

…and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.

And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.

…and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.

There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

…who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

…to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.