The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

The marriage, however, caused a stir within St. Thomas ’ small Jewish community, either because Rachel was outside the faith or because she was previously married to Frederick's uncle, and in subsequent years his four children were forced to attend the all-black primary school.

) Emily states that the only condition in which she would remain married to Ross is if he stops all communication with Rachel.

They decide to get married on a trip to Las Vegas, but change their plans after witnessing Ross and Rachel drunkenly stumble out of the wedding chapel.

After the week of wedding celebrations with Leah, Jacob married Rachel, and he continued to work for Laban for another seven years.

There are a number of exceptions to this rule, including the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, Miriam the prophetess, Deborah the Judge, Huldah the prophetess, Abigail who married David, Rahab and Esther.

Rashi had no sons, but his three daughters, Miriam, Yocheved, and Rachel, all married Talmudic scholars.

* Rashi's youngest daughter, Rachel, married ( and divorced ) Eliezer ben Shemiah.

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

Jackson's marriage came in for attack: when he had married his wife Rachel, the couple had believed that she was divorced ; however, the divorce was not yet finalized, so he had to remarry her once the legal papers were complete.

# Rachel Hill Boeckmann, who married Egil Boeckmann of St. Paul, Minnesota

In 1965, aged 57, he married Sonia Rachel Hopkins, who was then aged 32.

His son Joseph ( died 1804 ) married Rachel Mocatta, and his grandson Abraham Montefiore ( died 1824 ) married Henrietta whose father, the financier Nathan Meyer Rothschild, lived near the modern Colberg Place from 1818 to 1835.

He married Rachel Ann Harrison, the daughter of Thomas Harrison, a Baltimore merchant.

The couple had two daughters: Grisell, who married Sir Alexander Murray of Stanhope ; and Lady Rachel Binning.

Redgrave was married to the actress Rachel Kempson for 50 years from 1935 until his death.

In 1991, Hazes married his third wife, longtime girlfriend Rachel van Galen.

In 1580, he married Rachel Poulet ( 1564 – 1650 ), daughter of George Poulet ( c. 1533 – 1621 ), Bailiff of Jersey, and granddaughter of Sir Hugh Poulet, Governor of Jersey ( died 1573 ).

The Bedford Estate was expanded in 1669 to include Bloomsbury, when Lord Russell married Lady Rachel Vaughan, one of the daughters of the 4th Earl of Southampton.

His first wife Rebecca Mendez Furtado ( married 2 April 1756 ), by whom he had a daughter Rachel, died on 1 February 1765.

Uptight and pretentious, Rachel is married to Kevin Manning ( played by Peter Krause ), an equally uptight, untenured assistant professor from Boston.

He overheard a neighbor saying to his wife Rachel: " How long will you live as a widow while still married?

The MacCarthys ' daughter Rachel married the literary historian Lord David Cecil ; their son was the actor Jonathan Cecil.

Lord Killearn married firstly Rachel, daughter of William Wilton Phipps, in 1912.

In 1963 he married Grace Wilson, whom he had known for more than 20 years ; the couple remained married until he died.

Wilson married freelance writer and poet Arlen Riley in 1958 ; they had four children.

Axson died in 1914, and in 1915 Wilson married Edith Galt, a direct descendant of the Native American woman Pocahontas.

On 2 January 1952, the 39-year-old Powell married 26-year-old Margaret Pamela Wilson, a former colleague from the Conservative Central Office, who provided him with the settled and happy family life that was essential to his political career.

* Robert Moller Gilbreth ( July 4, 1920 – July 24, 2007 ) ( age 87 ); married Barbara Filer ; two children ( Ann Gilbreth Wilson, Roy D. Gilbreth )

Nellie married Tribune reporter Robert Wilson Patterson, Jr. ( 1850 – 1910 ).

In 1988, Hanks married actress Rita Wilson.

By coincidence, $ 4, 000 ($ 88, 100 in 2010 dollars ) would be the exemption for married couples when the Revenue Act of ( October ) 1913 was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, as a result of the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in February 1913.

degree from the Ohio State University and in the same year married Isabel Wilson, who previously had been married to Ohio artist Michael Sarisky.

On September 30, 2000, Sampras married American actress and former Miss Teen USA, Bridgette Wilson.

In 1995, Wilson married Melinda Ledbetter, a car saleswoman and former model he met several years earlier while under the care of Eugene Landy.

Wilson ( although married ) had seen a great deal of Mrs. Greenhow, and while with her may have told her about the plans followed by Major General Irvin McDowell, which may have been part of the intelligence Mrs. Greenhow got to Confederate forces under Major General Pierre Beauregard.

He married Ruth Wilson, the daughter of Don Benito Wilson.

He had been a good friend of ex-president Thomas Woodrow Wilson and was married to an American girl from Brooklyn, New York.

In 1836 she married Theodore's cousin, the explorer Wilson Price Hunt.

His daughter, Betsy, was married to Samuel Wilson, famous as " Uncle Sam ", and at that time a resident of Troy, New York.

In 1940, whilst he was a lecturer at University College, future British Prime Minister Harold Wilson married Mary Baldwin in this chapel, although he was not a member of the college.

Shackelford married Virginia Minor Randolph, daughter of Dr. Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph of Charlottesville, great-great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson.

Their three children are the actor Jared Harris who played Lane Pryce on AMC's Mad Men and who was once married to Emilia Fox, the actor Jamie Harris, and the director Damian Harris, once married to Annabel Brooks and now partner of Peta Wilson.

Gardener married Mary Wilson in 1887, she died in 1936.

Conti has been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson since 1967 and their daughter Nina is an actress and ventriloquist ; according to her, her parents have an open marriage.