Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.
but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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