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Luke 1:7
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
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Matthew 19:8
He said to them,“ Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
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Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
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Genesis 4:23
Lamech said to his wives,“ Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
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Genesis 25:21
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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Genesis 29:23-29
In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban,“ What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Laban said,“ It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
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Judges 13:2
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
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Deuteronomy 21:15-17
If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
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Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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Genesis 16:1-2
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.Sarai said to Abram,“ See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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Luke 2:36
There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher( she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
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Genesis 4:19
Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.