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To: onedoug

The Torah includes specific regulations on the practice of polygamy, such as Exodus 21:10, “If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.” Deuteronomy 21:15–17, says that a man must award the inheritance due to a first-born son to the son who was actually born first, even if he hates that son’s mother and likes another wife more and Deuteronomy 17:17 states that the king shall not have too many wives.[3]

The first polygamist mentioned in the Bible is Lamech, whose two wives were Adah and Zillah (Genesis 4:19). Many important figures had more than one wife, such as Esau (Genesis 26:34; Genesis 28:6-9), Abraham (Genesis 16:3, Genesis 21:1-13, Genesis 25:1, Genesis 25:6), Moses (Exodus 2:21; Exodus 18:1-6, Numbers 12:1), Jacob (Genesis 29:15-28), Gideon (Judges 8:29-32), Elkanah (1 Samuel 1:1-8), David (1 Samuel 25:39-44; 2 Samuel 3:2-5; 2 Samuel 5:13-16) and Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-3).


34 posted on 03/04/2014 4:50:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one of more note than Issac and Rebecca lived the singular sense of Genesis 2:24.

IMHO, this was the goal, though not met well for centuries.


40 posted on 03/04/2014 5:08:00 PM PST by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do you remember Jesus' answer about divorce--the husband's hardness of heart?
Jesus' teaching about divorce:

Mark 10:9
8 AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.

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Pretty clear to me.

54 posted on 03/04/2014 6:37:32 PM PST by cloudmountain
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