Thematic Bible: The evil effects of
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Jacob's
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
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And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also 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 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 first-born son be hers that was hated; then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born: but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; 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 threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.)
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Elkanah's
but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.
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