Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

And the LORD God said, {It is} not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {meet...: Heb. as before him}

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made {them} at the beginning made them male and female,

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex {her}, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life {time}. {a wife...: or, one wife to another}

And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

And he had two wives; the name of the one {was} Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.