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 you have taken my husband? And would you also take my son's love-apples? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you tonight for your son's love-apples.
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And he also went in to Rachel. He also loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him still seven more years.
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Husband's favoritism in
If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him sons, the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son was of her that was hated, then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not cause to inherit the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one, he who is truly the first-born. But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born 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 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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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Elkanah's
But to Hannah he gave one double portion, for he loved Hannah. But Jehovah had shut up her womb.
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