Thematic Bible: The evil effects of
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Jacob's
And she said to her, Is it a small matter that thou have taken away my husband? And would thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lay with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes.
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And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Husband's favoritism in
If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other regarded inferior, and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one regarded inferior, and if the first-born son be hers who was regarded inferior, then 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 first-born before the son of the one regarded inferior, who is the first-born. But he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the one regarded inferior, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.
Polygamy » The evil effects of » Rehoboam's
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines. For he took eighteen wives, and thirty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and thirty daughters.
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Elkanah's
but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but LORD had shut up her womb.
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