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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Abraham
And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her slave woman, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife (after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan).
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But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son while he still lived, eastward to the east country.
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And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: She bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » David
And David took more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron. And there were still more sons and daughters born to David.
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And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Caleb
And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez. And Haran fathered Gazez. And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph. Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber, and Tirhanah.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Nahor
And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Rehoboam
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Abijah
And Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Manasseh
The sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, the son born to his Syrian concubine with Machir the father of Gilead,
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Solomon
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Eliphaz
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son. And she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » saul
And Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbosheth said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » jacob
And she gave him her slave woman Bilhah to wife. And Jacob went in to her.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » A levite
And it happened in those days, no king being in Israel, there was a certain Levite residing on the far side of Mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » gideon
And his concubine, who was in Shechem, also bore him a son whose name he called Abimelech.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Belshazzar
When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his rulers, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
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Polygamy » Practiced by
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death; and his widows shall not weep.
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