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Polygamy
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Genesis 4:19Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.Genesis 26:34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.Genesis 28:9Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.Genesis 29:30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Genesis 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.Genesis 29:32Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”Genesis 29:33She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.Genesis 29:34She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore was his name called Levi.Genesis 30:1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”Genesis 30:2Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”Genesis 30:3She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”Genesis 30:4She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.Genesis 30:5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.Genesis 30:6Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.Genesis 30:7Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.Genesis 30:8Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.Genesis 30:9When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.Genesis 30:10Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a son.Genesis 30:11Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.Genesis 30:12Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.Genesis 30:13Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.Genesis 30:14Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”Genesis 30:15She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”Genesis 30:16Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.Genesis 30:17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.Genesis 30:18Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” She named him Issachar.Genesis 30:19Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.Genesis 30:20Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.Genesis 30:21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.Genesis 30:22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.Genesis 30:23She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”Exodus 21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.Leviticus 18:18“‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.Deuteronomy 17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.Deuteronomy 21:15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;Deuteronomy 21:16then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:Deuteronomy 21:17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.1 Samuel 1:2and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.1 Samuel 1:4When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:1 Samuel 1:5but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.1 Samuel 1:6Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.1 Samuel 1:7As he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.1 Samuel 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.1 Samuel 25:40When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”1 Samuel 25:41She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”1 Samuel 25:42Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.1 Samuel 25:43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.1 Samuel 25:44Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.2 Samuel 3:2To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;2 Samuel 3:3and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;2 Samuel 3:4and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;2 Samuel 3:5and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.2 Samuel 5:13David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.2 Samuel 12:8I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.1 Kings 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;1 Kings 11:2of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.1 Kings 11:4For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.1 Kings 11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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