³ Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁹ Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

⁴ But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

¹⁵ But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.

⁴ He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

⁵ and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

⁶ So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

⁷ They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

⁸ He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.