[Mrs. Don-o]

A lot of that bidniz about multiple wives in the OT may very well be meant in a cautionary way. A lot of fraught relationships, fighting, and rivalry in those polygamous set-ups, both with Wife#1 vs Wife#2 stress, and Sons-of-wife#1 vs Sons-of-wife#3 and #4.

And check out the homicide rate.

As I think Gilda Radner once observed: "If you can't be a Good Example, you'll just have to serve as a Horrible Warning."

[SteveH]

speculative. calls for interpretation.

[Elsie]

I prefer to think of myself as the BEFORE model in the before/after pictures.