Bible Verses About Polygamy

`If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

`And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

And he doth not multiply to himself wives, and his heart doth not turn aside, and silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself--exceedingly.

`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one--the first-born.

But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the right of the first-born.

and he hath two wives, the name of the one is Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah, and Peninnah hath children, and Hannah hath no children.

and I give to thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and I give to thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to thee such and such things .

And Jehoiada taketh for him two wives, and he begetteth sons and daughters.

And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'

And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

And He did not make one only , And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone ! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made them , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

and he answering said to them, `What did Moses command you?'

and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

And Jesus answering said to them, `For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,