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'Wives' in the Bible

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

Verse ConceptsPolygamySeventiesgideon

How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

Verse ConceptsWives For Benjamin

Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWives For Benjamin

However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'"

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

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נשׁין 
Nashiyn (Aramaic) 
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