Bible Dictionary: Polygamy: Jacob

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Genesis 29:30
And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
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The Trials and visions of Devout Youth
... And, indeed, the history of Jacob's household strikingly illustrates the miserable
evils of polygamy, which makes families within the family, and turns ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the trials and visions of.htm

The People among whom we Labour.
... in both the same names continually meet us, such as Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, David ...
The sanction given by Muhammad to polygamy and extreme facility of divorce has ...
/.../chapter xxviii the people among.htm

Trust in God --True Wisdom
... with skins of goats and wool, provides the savoury meat, and sends Jacob who was ...
great mistake of his life, the commission of the error of polygamy, and make ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/trust in godtrue wisdom.htm

The Power of Christianity.
... The wisest men of Greece and Rome sanctioned slavery, polygamy, concubinage, oppression ...
and sins, as well as the virtues, of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, and ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 44 the power of.htm

Index of Subjects.
... Jacob, sets up a stone for a memorial pillar, [430]191; his vision of the ladder,
[431]192; his polygamy, [432]289 sq.; his wives, and the typical or ...
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The Israelites
... The descendants of Jacob were already exhausted by struggle after struggle with
the ... troubled by revolts which had their origin partly in the polygamy in which ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter i the israelites.htm

section ii.
... that I disallow of second marriage; as neither, in all cases, of Polygamy, which,
considering ... Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. ...
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The Seventh vision "In Heaven"
... Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; All ye of the seed of Jacob, glorify him ... of the
Elect Remnant, there is neither Polygamy on the one hand, nor Divorce on the ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the seventh vision in heaven.htm

Letter Lxix. To Oceanus.
... and was aware that the example of the patriarchs had made polygamy familiar to ... drawer
of water and wins a kiss thereby [2070] from the supplanter [2071] Jacob. ...
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Consecration to God --Illustrated by Abraham's Circumcision
... Polygamy, though tolerated under the Old Testament, was never approved; it was only
endured ... God," saith he, "I change not: therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 14 1868/consecration to godillustrated by abrahams.htm

Subtopics

Bigamy

Multiple Wives

Polygamy

Polygamy with Solomon