Two women baby

New fertility procedure allows 2 women to carry same baby, presents new choices for same-sex couples

DALLAS, Texas -- For the first time in history, two women have carried the same baby thanks to an amazing new medical advance.

"He's our miracle baby," said Ashleigh Coulter. The 28-year-old mother talked with WFAA in Dallas.

Baby Stetson has two doting moms.

"He's perfect," said Bliss Coutler, 36. "Our cute little cowboy."

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Bliss and Ashleigh met six years ago, fell in love, then came marriage.

"I wanted to be pregnant for so long and so bad," Ashleigh said as she sat beside her wife, Bliss.

"I always wanted to have a child," Bliss added. "I just didn't want to carry the child."

The couple knew that welcoming their own biological child would require a sperm donor, and some creativity.

"Obviously, us being two women, we were like how can we make this happen?" Ashleigh said. "We felt like there has to be a way."

It turned out, there was a way for both women to carry their own baby.

Fertility specialists Dr. Kathy Doody and husband Dr. Kevin Doody at the CARE Fertility in Bedford were the first to try reciprocal effortless In Vitro Fertilization using radical technology, which gave Bliss and Ashleigh a shot at motherhood.

"We were just talking one night at home and I said, 'You know, I think we could use this for a same-sex couple,'" Dr. Kathy recalled. "And Kevin said, 'I think you're right. I think we could.'"

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Here's how the process works. It starts like traditional IVF.

"Bliss went through the stimulation of her ovaries and the egg harvest," Kathy said.

Instead of placing the sperm and Bliss' eggs into incubators in a lab, which is called reciprocal IVF and has been carried out for same-sex couples for years, they go into the chamber of the INVOcell device immediately after egg retrieval. The device is placed into Bliss' body for five days where early embryo development begins.

"She got the embryo off to an early start," Kathy said. "The eggs fertilized in her body and when they returned five days later, we removed the device and froze the embryos."

Because embryos don't have livers, kidneys or lungs, traditionally, electromechanical devices like incubators are used in labs to remove toxins and try to maintain a supportive environment for the embryo.

"It turns out, not surprisingly, that the woman's own body is a very good incubator," Kathy said, clarifying how INVOcell works. "We have livers, kidneys and lungs so we're able to provide those same services to the embryo more naturally."

Next, it's Ashleigh's turn.

"Almost like passing the baton, like it's a relay race," Kathy said.

Doctors evaluated Ashleigh's uterus, gave her estrogen and then progesterone, waited for the right time and transferred her wife's embryos to her body. They got pregnant on the first try.

"She got to carry him for five days and was a big part of the fertilization, and then I carried him for nine months," Ashleigh said. "So that made it really special for the both of us-that we were both involved. She got to be a part of it, and I got to be a part of it."

The cost of effortless IVF using INVOcell is approximately half the cost of traditional IVF, which usually runs between $14,000 and $16,000 with medication.

Reciprocal effortless IVF, which is the process Bliss and Ashleigh underwent, is about $8,000 with medication, compared to traditional reciprocal IVF involving lab incubators that cost roughly $15,000 to $20,000.

Kathy responded to critics who may believe that this science is contrary to religious beliefs.

"Well, I would respectfully disagree with them," Kathy said. "I think that family, relationship, children is exactly everything that was meant to be in our world."

"It was everything I hoped it would be," Ashleigh said.

Stetson is a happy, healthy 5-month-old baby. Bliss and Ashleigh are busy with motherhood.

"No one really knew it was possible but it worked magnificently," Bliss said.

The couple have two additional frozen embryos from Bliss that they could use the same way unless Ashleigh wants to use her eggs next time because only Bliss' genes transferred to Stetson.

"I think it opens up new avenues, new choices for same sex couples," Kathy said.

Since Ashleigh's delivery, a second same-sex couple in North Texas went through the reciprocal effortless IVF process at CARE Fertility, got pregnant and delivered a healthy baby girl in September.

The Slow March Toward the First Same-Sex Couple to Have a Baby

Cara Gormally’s pregnancy was shadowed by grief. As a queer woman wanting to have a baby, the biology professor had figured finding a sperm donor would be the only obstacle she and her partner faced. But thanks to Gormally’s organizational skills and love of making lists, the couple landed on a donor with relative ease.

Then, Gormally struggled to conceive. Each month brought fresh disappointment and loss.

“So much of the process depended on random, heart-breaking chance,” she says. The emotional and financial roller coaster was exhausting.

But it wasn’t the hardest part. The couple had accepted that, as much as they wanted a baby, their child wouldn’t be biologically related to Gormally’s spouse.

“I grieved that our child wouldn’t be genetically related to both of us,” Gormally says. “I longed for the biologically impossible.”

But now, a new set of technologies have the potential to change what’s possible — allowing same-sex partners to have kids who share their genetic material, just like straight couples. 

Inconceivable

In mammals, pretty much every cell in the body carries two sets of genetic material. One set comes from mom and the other from dad. Eggs and sperm are the only exceptions; they have just one set. Then, when a sperm fertilizes an egg, those two sets combine, restoring the usual number to two sets per cell.

Gormally and other same-sex partners are currently barred from their dreams by a phenomenon called genomic imprinting. It uses a distinct tag from each parent to mark the DNA that mammals pass on to their offspring.  The process ensures that, for a small percentage of genes, we only express the copy of genetic material provided by our mother or our father. When this imprinting process goes awry, kids can end up with inactive gene regions that cause miscarriages, developmental defects and cancer.

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During this genomic imprinting, mom’s distinct collection of tags typically turns off certain genes, so that just dad’s copy is expressed. And dad imparts his own marks that leave only the maternal copy on. (Most imprints silence gene expression, but some activate it.) That’s a problem for same-sex couples who want to have a baby. If both sets of an offspring’s genes come from maternal DNA, for example, then both copies of imprinted genes will be off. So, the embryo can’t make any of the genes’ products.

“We don’t get the full set of [gene] products that we need to undergo proper development unless we have both a maternal and paternal contribution to a fertilized egg,” says Marisa Bartolomei, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who discovered one of the first imprinted genes in mice. 

Scientists discovered genomic imprinting in mammals about 30 years ago. During experiments in the mid-1980s, researchers removed either the maternal or paternal genetic contributions from newly fertilized mouse eggs. Then, they transferred in a second set of genes from another mouse to create embryos with either two sets of female genetic material or two sets of male genetic material. A surrogate mouse was able to gestate the embryos, but none survived. The finding showed normal development requires genetic material from both a father and the mother. More than that, the outcomes revealed that maternal and paternal genetic material differ from each other in meaningful ways.

Later experiments revealed mice developed differently depending on whether they happened to receive both copies of certain regions of DNA from one parent (rather than one copy from each parent).

Mice with hairpin-shaped tails were telling examples. When researchers deleted the gene region responsible for a hairpin tail from a mother’s genome, mice embryos grew large and died partway through gestation. In contrast, deleting the same region from the paternal genome had no effect on the rodents’ growth or development.

In the three decades since, researchers have found more imprinted genes (they suspect there are between 100 and 200 such genes) and the molecular tags that silence them. Scientists have also taken strides connecting imprinting defects to developmental disorders in humans. But all along, researchers have known that imprinting prevents same-sex parents from having children.  

Editing Out Impossibility

In October 2018, researchers overcame this impossibility in mice. By deleting imprinted regions, Wei Li and a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing produced healthy mice from two moms. The researchers also created mouse pups from two dads for the first time. However, the offspring died just a few days after birth.

Despite the loss, Li is optimistic. “This research shows us what is possible,” he says. 

To overcome the imprinting barrier, Li and his fellow researchers turned to CRISPR, a gene-editing technique that’s made altering genomes easier than ever. They used the tool to delete gene regions from embryonic stem cells from mice mothers. The researchers then injected these modified stem cells into the egg of a female mouse and then used a third surrogate female mouse to carry the fetus to term. 

The team had already seen some success two years earlier when they created mouse pups with two genetic mothers by deleting two imprinted regions. Although these bimaternal mice also grew to adulthood and produced pups of their own, they developed growth defects. On average, the bimaternal mice were 20 percent lighter than their hetero-parental counterparts. In their latest study, Li and his team also deleted a third region from the mothers’ genes, which restored the animals’ growth to normal.

But the scientists had to clear a few more hurdles to generate mice with two genetic fathers. They found, through a process of trial and error, that they needed to remove twice as many imprinted regions in the bipaternal mice as the bimaternal mice. In total, the team deleted seven imprinted regions to successfully create mice from two dads.

Still, the numbers were not in their favor. Only two and a half percent of embryos made it to term and less than half of one percent lived for two days. None made it to adulthood.

“The produced bipaternal mice are not viable, which implies more obstacles are needed to cross to support their postnatal survival, if possible,” Li says. “The lower birth rate, on the other hand, implies the existence of an unknown barrier hindering the development of bipaternal embryos. ” 

In contrast, the bimaternal mice fared much better. These mice grew to adulthood and were healthy enough to have pups of their own by mating with typical male mice. They also behaved the same as the control mice. As far as the researchers could tell, the bimaternal mice appear as healthy and normal as any other laboratory mice. 

“It does not mean that they are normal in every aspect,” Li cautions. “One cannot investigate all the aspects under restricted experimental conditions with a limited number of animals.”

Despite the researchers’ success, Li says the technique is not ready for use in humans. “It is never too much to emphasize the risks and the importance of safety before any human experiment,” he says, particularly in regard to the bipaternal offspring, which currently “are severely abnormal and cannot survive to adulthood.”

The bimaternal offspring hold more promise. The team is now working to translate their findings to monkeys. And that work could bring the impossible one step closer to feasible for humans.

Re-creating Potential

Li’s research is encouraging but it’s a long way from helping Gormally and her spouse. However, it’s also not the only shot for same-sex couples. Another new technology called in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, may be an alternative potential path for same-sex couples to have their own kids.

Scientists use the technique to make eggs and sperm from other cells in the body. To do so, biologists first reprogram adult skin cells to become stem cells. Then, they stimulate the skin-derived stem cells to develop into eggs or sperm.

Researchers from Japan have now perfected the technique in mice. And in groundbreaking work, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou and their team generated functional eggs from mice tail cells.

The researchers then fertilized the eggs with sperm from male mice and implanted the embryos into surrogate mothers. The offspring grew up healthy and fertile. In principle, this approach could allow a woman’s skin cells to be engineered into sperm and used to fertilize her partner’s egg.  

IVG could transform same-sex couples’ ability to have their own children. “If it had been possible at the time, we definitely would’ve have tried to do it,” says Gormally, who is now a proud parent to a toddler thanks to her and her spouses’ sperm donor. “[It’s] a total game-changer.”

This story is part of "The Future of Fertility," a new series on Discover exploring the frontiers of reproduction. Read more:

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JUDGMENTS OF SOLOMON

JUDGMENTS OF SOLOMON

(translated by G. M. Prokhorova)

(...) And at that time Solomon arranged a great feast for his people. Then they appeared before king, two harlot women, and one woman said: I am in trouble, my lord. Me and this friend of mine, we live in the same house, in which both were born. I have a son was born. And on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth son; we live only together, and there is no one with us in our house. This night the woman's son died because she overslept him. And so, getting up in the middle of the night, she took my boy from my hand and put him to sleep on her bed, and her she put the dead boy to me. I got up in the morning to feed the baby and found him dead. Then I figured out that this is not my son, whom I gave birth to. And the other the woman said: No, my son is alive, but yours is dead. And they argued before king. nine0005

And the king said to them: So you say this: This is my son alive, and her dead, and she says: No, mine is alive, but yours is dead. And the king said to his servants: Cut this living boy in half, and give half of him to this one and half to that one. And the dead one, too, having cut it, give half of it to this one, and half of that one.

And the woman answered, whose son was alive, for her soul was in turmoil because of her son, and said: Let me be in trouble, my lord. Give it to her boy, don't kill him. And another woman said: Let it not be for me, neither to her! Break it apart. The king replied: Give the child alive to the woman who said: Give it to her, and do not kill him. Give it to her, for she his mother. nine0005

Israel heard about this judgment by which the king judged, and all the faces of the king were afraid, for they understood that he was given the meaning of God to do judgment and justice.

<0 PHAROOH'S HELP>

Solomon took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife while building the Holy of Holies. And he sent sent her to him with the words: My father-in-law! Send me help. And he chose six hundred people, knowing through astrology that they were going to die in that year, wanted to test the wisdom of Solomon. When they were brought to Solomon, he saw them from afar, and ordered shrouds to be sewn for all of them. He assigned his ambassador to them and sent to Pharaoh, saying: My father-in-law! If you have nothing to bury your dead, so here are your robes. Bury them yourself. nine0005

THE LEGEND OF HOW KITOVRAS WAS TAKEN BY SOLOMON

When Solomon was building the Holy of Holies, he needed to ask Kitovras a question. They told him where he lives, they said in the far desert. Then wise Solomon decided to forge an iron chain and an iron hoop, and on it he wrote a spell with the name God's. And he sent the first of his boyars with servants, and ordered to bring wine and honey, and took sheepskins with them. They came to the dwelling of Kitovras, to his three wells, but did not it was there. And according to the direction of Solomon, wine and honey were poured into those wells, and from above covered the well with sheepskins. Wine was poured into two wells, and honey into the third. They themselves, hiding, watched from the hiding place when he would come to drink water at the wells. And soon he came, leaned to the water, began to drink and said: Everyone who drinks wine, does not become wiser. But he got sick of drinking water, and he said: You are wine, rejoicing heart to people, and drank all three wells. And I wanted to sleep a little, and dismantled his wine, and he fell asleep soundly. The boyar, coming up, tightly shackled him by neck, arms and legs. And, waking up, he wanted to rush. And the boyar to him said: Sir, Solomon wrote the name of the Lord with a spell on the chains, which now on you. He, seeing them on himself, meekly went to Jerusalem to the king. nine0005

His temper was like this. He did not walk in a crooked way, but only in a straight one. And when came to Jerusalem, clearing the way for him and tearing down houses, for he did not go to bypass. And they approached the widow's house, and, running out, the widow cried out, imploring Kitovras: Sir, I am a poor widow. Do not hurt me! He bent around the corner, not lost his way and broke his rib. And he said: A soft tongue breaks a bone. When they led him through the bargain, then, hearing one man say: Is there shoes for seven years? Kitovras laughed. And seeing another person telltale, laughed. And I saw the wedding being managed, I cried. Seeing on the way a man wandering without a road, he directed him to the road. And they brought him to court of the kings. nine0005

On the first day they did not take him to Solomon. And Kitovras said: Why doesn't he call me the king? They told him: Yesterday he drank too much Kitovras took a stone and laid to another stone. Solomon was told what Kitovras had done. And the king said: Tells me to drink drink upon drink. And the next day the king did not call him to him. And Kitovras asked: Why don't you take me to the king and why don't I see his face? And They said: The king is sick because he ate a lot yesterday. Then took off Kntovras stone from stone. nine0005

On the third day they said: The king is calling you. He measured the rod to four cubits, entered the king, bowed and silently threw the rod before the king. King by wisdom explained to his boyars what the rod means, and told: God gave you in possession of the universe, and you were not satisfied, you caught me too. And Solomon said to him: Do not on my whim I brought you, but to ask how to build the Holy of Holies. I brought you by the command of the Lord, since I am not allowed to hew stones iron.

Then Solomon asked Kitovras: Why did you laugh when the man asked shoes for seven years? I saw it, Kitovras answered that he would not live and seven days. The king sent to check, and it turned out so. And Solomon asked: Why did you laugh when the man told fortune? Kitovras answered: He told people about secret, but he himself did not know that under it was a treasure with gold. And Solomon said: Go and check. Checked it out and it turned out. And the king asked: Why did he weep when he saw wedding? Kitovras answered: They were saddened because the bridegroom would not live and thirty days. The king checked and it turned out so. And the king asked: Why did you bring a drunken man to the road? Replied Kitovras: I heard from heaven that that person is virtuous and follows him serve. nine0005

Kitovras stayed with Solomon until the completion of the Holy of Holies. Solomon once said Kitovrasu: Now I saw that your strength is like a human, and no more our strength, but the same. And Kitovras said to him: King, if you want to see what strength I have, take off my chains and give me your ring from my hand; then see my power. Solomon removed the iron chain from him and gave him a ring. AND he swallowed the ring, stretched out his wing, swung, and struck Solomon, and threw him to the end of the promised land. The wise men and scribes knew about it and searched for Solomon. nine0005

Solomon was always afraid of Kitovras at night. And the king built a bed and ordered sixty strong youths to stand around with swords. That is why it is said in Scripture: The bed of Solomon, sixty young men of Israel and of the nations northern.

O KITOWRASE FROM PALEA

The whale is a fast animal. Wise Solomon caught him by cunning. Stan at it is human, but the legs are cow. The fable says that he carried his wife in his ear. Here What trick did they use to catch him? His wife said to the young man, her lover, like this: He goes around many lands day and night and comes to a certain place, on which has two wells. And he, getting excited, drinks both of those wells. Solomon ordered to pour wine into one of them, and honey into the other. Kitovras are both wells, jumped up and drank. Then he, drunk, sleeping, was caught and bound tightly, for he had great power. And they brought him to King Solomon. The king asked him: What the most beautiful thing in this world? He replied: Your own will is best. AND, rushing, broke everything and galloped to his will. nine0005

<0 TWO-HEADED HUSBAND AND HIS CHILDREN >

Kitovras, leaving for his people, presented Solomon with a man with two heads. That man took root with Solomon. Solomon asked him: What kind of people are you? You man or demon? The man answered: I am from the people who live underground. And asked his king: Do you have the sun and the moon? He said: From your west the sun rises to us, and sets in your east. So when you have a day, then you us the night. And when you have night, then we have day. And the king gave him a wife. And were born he has two sons, one with two heads and the other with one. And their father had a lot of good. And their father died. The two-headed one said to his brother: Let's divide the property according to the heads. And the younger brother said: There are two of us. Let's split the property in half. And went to court king. The one-headed man said to the king: We are two brothers. We must share the property in half. And the two-headed one said to the king: I have two heads, and I want to take two shares. The king, in his wisdom, ordered vinegar to be served and said: Are these two heads from different bodies? Poluka I vinegar on one head: if the other does not feel head, take two shares for two heads. And if another head feels pouring vinegar means both these heads are from the same body. Then take one share. And when vinegar poured on one head, the other squealed. And the king said: Since you have one body, take one share. So King Solomon judged them. nine0005

There was a queen of the South, a foreigner named Malkatoshka. She came to test Solomon in riddles; she was very wise. And she brought him gifts: twenty drops of gold, a lot of potions and non-decaying wood. Solomon heard about the arrival of the queen, sat down in a hall with a transparent glass floor on a platform, wishing test her. And she, seeing that the king was sitting in the water, picked up her clothes before him. And he saw that she was beautiful in face, but her body was as hairy as a brush. With this hair she bewitched the men who were with her. Solomon did say to your wise men: Prepare a bath and an ointment with a potion and anoint her body so that hair fell out. And the wise men and the scribes told him to go with her. conceived from him, she went to her own land and gave birth to a son, and that was Nebuchadnezzar. nine0005

That was her riddle to Solomon. She gathered boys and girls dressed in identical clothes, and said to the king: Decide according to your wisdom which boys, and which girls. The king, in his wisdom, ordered the fruits to be brought, and they poured them out In front of them. The boys began to pick up clothes in the floors, and the girls in the sleeves. And said Solomon: These are boys and these are girls. She marveled at him because of this. tricks.

The next day she gathered the youths, circumcised and uncircumcised, and said to Solomon: Decide which are circumcised and which are uncircumcised. The king commanded the bishop bring in the holy crown, on which was written the word of the Lord, which Balaam was turned away from sorcery. The circumcised youths stood up, but the uncircumcised fell before crown. She was very surprised by this. nine0005

The wise men thought of it to Solomon's sly ones: We have a well far from the city. Guess with your wisdom how you can drag him to the city? cunning ones Solomon, realizing that this could not be, said to them: Weave from bran rope, and we will drag your well to the city.

And the wise men thought of it again: If the field is overgrown with knives, how can you reap it? They were answered: With a donkey horn. And her wise men said: Where are the horns of the donkey? They are Answered: And where beer will give birth to knives?

The queen, seeing the mansions created, and a lot of food, and how his people sit, and how his servants stand, and their garments, and their drink, and the sacrifices that they brought into the house God, said: True is the speech that I have heard in my land about your wisdom. And I had no faith in the speeches until I came and saw with my own eyes. Turns out I wasn't even told half of it. Blessed be your husbands who hear your wisdom. nine0005

King Solomon gave this queen the name Malkatoshka and everything she asked for. And she went to her land with her people.

<0 INHERITANCE OF THREE BROTHERS >

In the days of Solomon there lived a man who had three sons. Dying, this man called them to himself and said to them: I have a treasure in the ground. In that place, said three vessels are stacked on top of each other. After my death, let the elder take the top one, the middle is the middle, and the smaller one is the bottom. After the death of his father, his sons opened this treasure in the presence of people. And it turned out that the upper vessel was full of gold, the middle one is full of bones, and the bottom one is full of earth. These brothers began to quarrel, saying: You are a son, since you take gold, and we are not sons? And went to court Solomon. And Solomon judged them: what is gold to the elder, what cattle and servants the average, judging by the bones; but what of vineyards, cornfields, and grain is for the lesser. And He said to them: Your father was a wise man and divided you during his lifetime. nine0005

<0 THREE WAYERS>

Once three men were walking their own way, carrying gold in their belts. Stopping to rest in a deserted place, they consulted and decided: Let's hide the gold in hiding place: if robbers attack, we will run away, and it will be saved. Digging pit, they all put their belts in the hiding place. In the middle of the night, when two friends fell asleep, the third, harboring an evil thought, got up and hid the belts in another place. And when they, having rested, came to the hiding place to take their belts, then, having found them, they all shouted at once; but the villain yelled much louder than the other two. And all returned home. And they said, Let us go to Solomon and tell him of our trouble. And they came to Solomon, and said: We do not know, king, whether the beast has taken, whether the bird or an angel. Explain to us, king. And in his wisdom he said to them: I will find you tomorrow. But since you are travelers, I beg you: explain to me: A certain young man, got engaged to a beautiful girl, gave her an engagement ring without her knowledge father and mother. This young man went to another land and got married there. And the father gave marry a girl. And when the bridegroom wanted to come in to her, the girl cried out and said: Out of shame, I did not tell my father that I was engaged to someone else. Fear God, go to my betrothed, ask him for permission: let me be your wife according to the word him. A young man gathered and, taking a lot of goods and a girl, went there, and he allowed him: Let her be your wife, since you have taken her. The groom says to her: Let's go back and have the wedding again. And when they were walking the road back, they a certain rapist met with his people and captured him with both the girl and good. And this robber wanted to do violence to the girl, and she screamed and told the robber that she went for permission and was not yet with her husband in bed. The robber was surprised and said to her husband: Take your wife and go with your good. And Solomon said: I have told you about this girl and the young man. Tell now to me, you people who have lost their belts: who is better, a boy or a girl, or a robber? One replied: The girl is good because she talked about his betrothal. Another said: The young man is good because he waited until permissions. The third said: The robber is the best, because he returned the girl and let him go. And there was no need to give back. Then Solomon answered: Friend, you are hungry for someone else's good. You took all the belts. The same one said: King-lord, indeed it is. I don't hide from you. nine0005

<0 SENSE FEMALE>

And then the wise Solomon, wanting to experience the meaning of the feminine, the world, called on the boyar his named Dekir and said to him: I like you very much. And more I will love you if you fulfill my desire: kill your wife, and I will give for you his best daughter. I told him the same thing a few days later. And didn't want make it Dekir. And finally he said: I will do your will, king. The king gave him your sword with the words: Cut off the head of your wife when she falls asleep, so that she dissuaded you with her speeches. He went and found his wife sleeping, and by her side are two children. And he looked at his wife and at his sleeping children, said in his heart: If I thus strike my friend with the sword, I will grieve my children. The king called him to him and asked him, saying: Have you fulfilled my will? about your wife? He answered: I could not, my lord the king, execute. nine0005

The king sent him as an ambassador to another city, and calling his wife, he said to her: I like you much more than all women. If you do what I tell you I will make you queen. Slaughter your husband, who is sleeping on the bed, and this is for you sword. In response, the wife said: I am glad, king, that you order so. Solomon, understanding with his wisdom her husband that he did not want to kill his wife, gave him the sword is sharp; and realizing his wife that she wanted to kill her husband, he gave her a sword stupid, pretending to be sharp, saying: Slay your husband with this sword, sleeping on your bed. And she laid the sword on her husband's chest and stood run it down his throat, thinking he's sharp. And he quickly jumped up, believing that some enemies attacked, and seeing that his wife was holding a sword, why, he said, my friend, are you thinking of killing me? In response to her husband, the wife said: Language the human convinced me to kill you. He wanted to call people and here understood what Solomon had taught her. nine0005

Solomon, hearing of this, entered this verse into the Collection, saying: I have found a man one among thousands, but he did not find a woman in the whole world.

<0 SERVANT AND SON >

In the days of Solomon there was a rich man in Babylon, but he had no children. Having lived half his days, he adopted a servant boy. And, having equipped, sent him with good from Babylon on trade matters. The same one, having come to Jerusalem, got hold of it there. And fell into the number of the boyars of Solomon, seated at a dinner with the king. nine0005

In the meantime, a son was born to the master of his house. And when the boy was fulfilled thirteen years old, his father died. And his mother said to him: Son, I heard about the serf your father, that he got rich in Jerusalem. Go and find him. He came to Jerusalem and asked about a man by name, what was the name of this servant. And that one was very famous. He was told that he was at Solomon's for dinner. And the lad entered the royal hall, asked: Who is such and such a boyar? He replied: It's me. coming up, The lad hit him in the face and said: You are my serf! Do not be afraid, sitting, but go work! And give me your good. And the king was angry, and he was annoyed. Turning to Solomon, the lad said: If not, the king, this servant of the father my mine, then for the fact that I hit him with my hand, I will receive a blow with a sword, which will kill me. Struck in turn said: I am the master's son, and this is a servant my father and mine. I have witnesses in Babylon. The king said: I will not believe witnesses. I'd rather send my ambassador to Babylon, let him take the shoulder a bone from the coffin of my father, and she will tell me which of you is the son and which is the servant. And you be here. And the king sent his trusted ambassador, and he brought the humerus. By with his wisdom, the tsar commanded to cleanly wash the bone, planted his boyar and all wise men, boyars and scribes in front of him and said to a man who knows how to let Blood: Let this boyar bleed. He did it. Then the king ordered bone into warm blood. He explained the meaning of the command to his boyars, saying: If If he is his son, then his blood will cling to the bones of his father. If it does not cling, then a slave. And they took the bone out of the blood, and the bone was white as before. Then the king commanded another vessel to let the blood of the lad. And having washed the bone, they put it in the blood of the young man. And the bone was saturated with blood. And the king said to his boyars: See with your own eyes that this bone says: This is my son, and that is a slave. So the king judged them. nine0005

After that, Solomon began to speak to his boyars: There was Adrian the king, and he commanded their boyars call him god. And, not wanting to, the boyars said: Our Tsar! Do you think in your heart that there was no god before you? We will call you the highest king among kings, if you take the Jerusalem which is above and the Holy of Holies. He And having assembled with many soldiers, he went and took Jerusalem, and returned back, and said to them: Just as God will do whatever He commands and says, so I did. Now call me god. He had three philosophers. Answered him the first, saying: If you want to be called a god, keep in mind: a boyar cannot be called king while in the royal palace until he comes out. So do you if you want be called a god, come out of the whole universe and there be called a god. nine0005

And the other said: You cannot be called a god. The king asked: Why? That answered: Jeremiah the prophet says: Gods who did not create heaven and earth, yes will perish. If you want to die, king, call yourself a god.

And the third said: My lord, the king! Help me soon! The king asked: What you? And the philosopher said: My boat, three versts from here, is ready to sink, and all my goodness to her, and the king said: Do not be afraid. I will send people and they will bring her. AND the philosopher said: Why should you, king, trouble your people? Send a quiet wind let him save her. The same, understanding, kept silent displeasedly and went to rest to his queen. nine0005

And the queen said: The philosophers have deceived you, king, by telling you that you cannot be called a god. Wishing to comfort him in that sorrow, she said: You are the king, you rich, you are worthy of great honor. Do, said, one thing, and then call god. The king asked: What kind? And the queen answered: The property of God, which return you. He asked: What property? The queen said: Return your soul which God has put into your body, and then be called God. He objected: If there is no soul in me, in my body, how shall I be called God? the queen said to him: If you do not own your soul, then you cannot be called. nine0005

King Solomon asked the princess for himself. And they didn't give it to him. Then Solomon said to the demons: Go, and take that princess, and bring her to me. And demons having gone, they kidnapped her at the crossing, when she was walking from her mother’s chambers, they put her in ship and sailed across the sea.

And then the princess saw that the man was drinking water, and behind him the water was coming out. She asked: Explain to me what it is. And the demons said: He is for you explain to whom we are taking you. They go further and see a man wandering in the water, water asks, and the waves knock him down. And the princess said: My dear matchmakers, and this is for me explain: why is that person, wandering in the water, asking for water? And they said: He will explain to you who we are taking you to. And they drove by, and they see a man reaping hay, goes, and two goats, following him, eat the grass: whatever he reaps, they eat. And said the princess: Explain to me, my unloving matchmakers, explain to me: why goats do not eat uncut grass? And the demons said to her: He will explain to you to whom we're taking you. nine0005

And they rushed her to the city. One demon went and told Solomon the king: They brought the bride you. The king, having mounted his horse, went ashore. And the princess said to him: Today I yours, king. But here's what you explain to me: a man drank water, and behind him she went out. The king said: Why are you surprised at this? After all, this is the royal house: enters here, exits from here. And the princess asked: And now explain to me that is this: one person, wandering in the water, asks for water, and the waves knock him down? Solomon replied: O bride! Why are you surprised by this, bride? This is servant of the kings: he judges one lawsuit, and seeks another lawsuit, so that the king's heart make good. And here's what else explain to me: a man reaps grass, and what he reaps, then two goats, following him, eat. Why don't those goats that got into the hay eat uncut grass? And the king said: Bride! Why are you surprised? If a man takes another wife with other people's children, what he earns, they will eat. And for he has nothing of himself. Now go, bride, to my rest. nine0005

So she became his wife.

Two women and a child died in a traffic accident in the Altai Territory

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Olga Diyanova (Novosibirsk)

A car drove into a truck in the Altai Territory, killing two women and a three-year-old child, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region reported. nine0005

According to the agency, a woman born in 1985 was driving a Nissan Pino from the P-256 "Chuysky Trakt" highway towards the Kemerovo region. At some point, she lost control and drove into the oncoming lane, where she collided with MAN 458400.

As a result of the collision, the driver of the car and two passengers - an 18-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy - died on the spot.

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