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And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
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But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.
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On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
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“Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
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So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
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And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sar′ai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Esau’s Hittite Wives
When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Be-e′ri the Hittite, and Bas′emath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
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Esau went to Ish′mael and took to wife, besides the wives he had, Ma′halath the daughter of Ish′mael Abraham’s son, the sister of Neba′ioth.
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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have given you.”
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So Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives on camels;
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If you ill-treat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, remember, God is witness between you and me.”
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Jacob Wrestles at Peniel
The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and made their prey.
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Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholiba′mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon the Hivite,
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Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his beasts, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
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This is the history of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father.
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Command them also, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all;
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and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
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And Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
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Why does the Lord bring us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
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So they got away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abi′ram; and Dathan and Abi′ram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
