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Thematic Bible: Concubinage


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Exodus 21:7-11
"If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her. If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters. read more.
If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one's food, her clothing, or her marital rights. If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

Leviticus 19:20-22
"'When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free. He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, a guilt offering ram, and the priest is to make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven of his sin that he has committed.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14
When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners, if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife, you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails, read more.
discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife. If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

Genesis 16:3
So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

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

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

Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father. Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

Judges 19:3-5
her husband came after her, hoping he could convince her to return. He brought with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father's house and the girl's father saw him, he greeted him warmly. His father-in-law, the girl's father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there. On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. But the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Have a bite to eat for some energy, then you can go."

2 Samuel 5:13
David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David. Verse ConceptsConcubinesPolygamyDavid's Wives

2 Samuel 15:16
So the king and all the members of his royal court set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines to attend to the palace. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

Genesis 21:10
So she said to Abraham, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!" Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialFamilyQuarrelsOld Testament People As Typessarah

Genesis 15:4
But look, the word of the Lord came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir." Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfAbrahamBody

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

Genesis 22:23-24
(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham's brother Nahor. His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children -- Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 21:9-14
But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian -- the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham -- mocking. So she said to Abraham, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!" Sarah's demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. read more.
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted. But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too." Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

2 Chronicles 13:21
Abijah's power grew; he had fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

1 Chronicles 7:14
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, who was born to Manasseh's Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. Verse ConceptsConcubines

1 Kings 11:3
He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him. 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, a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz, bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Esau's wife Adah. Verse ConceptsConcubines

2 Samuel 3:7
Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth said to Abner, "Why did you have sexual relations with my father's concubine?" Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her. Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

Judges 19:1
In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

Judges 8:31
His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.

Daniel 5:2
While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels -- the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem -- so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them. Verse ConceptsPolygamySilverHoly VesselsSacred VesselsSacrilegeGold TransferredOther Wives

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