Bible Encyclopedia: Multiple Wives

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Synagogues: their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
... Unless the number 480 was fixed upon simply as the multiple of symbolical numbers
(4 ... in this case their warrant in Zechariah 12:11-14, where "the wives" are no ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 16 synagogues their origin.htm

Naparima and Montserrat
... men, as soon as they have cleared as much land as their wives and children ... of its
family in having not three but many divisions, usually a multiple of three up ...
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Faustus Denies that the Prophets Predicted Christ. Augustin Proves ...
... and in two months there are sixty days; so that here, as in every multiple of six ...
said: "Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him ...
/.../faustus denies that the prophets.htm

The Gods of Egypt
... as goddess of the Delta before she had become a multiple and contradictory ... was united
to two goddesses, who were at once his sisters and his wives according to ...
/.../chapter ii the gods of egypt.htm

The Close of the Theban Empire --(Continued)
... or sculptured in the rock itself, representing the occupant, his wives and children ...
each other, and formed but one deity"a unique existence, multiple in his ...
/.../chapter ithe close of the.htm

Topical Bible Verses

Deuteronomy 17:17
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Subtopics

Bigamy

Multiple Wives

Polygamy

Polygamy with Solomon