'Wives' in the Bible
But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;
Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.
If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:
And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you: