Bible Verses About Polygamy

And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son of the hated.

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.

And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.

And gave thee thy master's house and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things be little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.

And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said:

For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?

But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?

Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.

To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you that precept.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife.

And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children and their own houses.