So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Ha
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since s
After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for h
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard ab