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Thematic Bible: Concubinage


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Exodus 21:7-11
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. read more.
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Leviticus 19:20-22
"If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; but he shall bring his compensation to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14
"When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. read more.
And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

Genesis 16:3
So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

Genesis 25:6
But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country. Verse ConceptsGroups Sent Away

1 Chronicles 1:32
The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. Verse ConceptsConcubines

Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

Judges 19:3-5
Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go."

2 Samuel 5:13
And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. Verse ConceptsConcubinesPolygamyDavid's Wives

2 Samuel 15:16
So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

Genesis 21:10
So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac." Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialFamilyQuarrelsOld Testament People As Typessarah

Genesis 15:4
And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir." Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfAbrahamBody

1 Chronicles 2:46-48
Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez. The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

Genesis 22:23-24
(Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 21:9-14
But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing. So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac." And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. read more.
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named. And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring." So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters). Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

2 Chronicles 13:21
But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

1 Chronicles 7:14
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. Verse ConceptsConcubines

1 Kings 11:3
He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. Verse ConceptsConcubinesGuidance, Need For God'sSin, Causes OfBad ExampleThree To Four HundredSeven To Nine HundredCausing People To TurnThree Hundred And Aboverehabilitationmistressgirlfriends

Genesis 36:12
(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. Verse ConceptsConcubines

2 Samuel 3:7
Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?" Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

Judges 19:1
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

Judges 8:31
And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Verse ConceptsPolygamySilverHoly VesselsSacred VesselsSacrilegeGold TransferredOther Wives

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