A Man's Mate Comes Only From the Holy One

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 109:6

(Genesis 24:49-51) "And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come forth from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good." From the Torah, from the Prophets, and from the Writings we learn that a man's mate comes only from the Holy One, blessed be He. From the Torah: "And they said, The thing has come forth from the LORD." From the Prophets: "But his father and his mother did not know that it was from the LORD" (Judges 14:4). And from the Writings: "House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD" (Proverbs 19:14).

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