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Luke 1:7
And yet they had no child, because Elizabeth was infertile, and they were both advanced in years.
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Matthew 19:8
He* said to them,“ Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.
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Judges 8:30
Now Gideon had seventy sons who were his direct descendants, for he had many wives.
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Genesis 4:23
Lamech said to his wives,“ Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Pay attention to my words, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me!
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Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the Lord answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
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Genesis 29:23-29
Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and Jacob had relations with her.Laban also gave his female slave Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a slave.So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban,“ What is this that you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?”But Laban said,“ It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me, for another seven years.”Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.Laban also gave his female slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.
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Judges 13:2
And there was a man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was infertile and had not given birth to any children.
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Deuteronomy 21:15-17
“ If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, and the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,then it shall be on the day that he wills what he owns as an inheritance to his sons, he is not allowed to treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn, at the expense of the son of the unloved, who actually is the firstborn son.On the contrary, he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of everything that he owns, for he was the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.
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Genesis 29:31
Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was unable to have children.
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Genesis 16:1-2
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.So Sarai said to Abram,“ See now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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Luke 2:36
And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage,
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Genesis 4:19
Lamech took two wives for himself: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.