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Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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The First Polygamist
Commentators unanimously identify Lamech as the first person in the Bible to take more than one wife. This act is presented as a direct violation of God's original design for marriage, established in Genesis 2, where one man and one woman become "one flesh." This departure from God's standard begins in the rebellious lineage of Cain.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Lamech took unto him two wives. —Whether polygamy began with Lamech is uncertain, but it is in keeping with the insolent …
16th Century
Protestant
And Lamech took unto him two wives. We have here the origin of polygamy in a perverse and degenerate race, and the first author of it, a c…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Lamech took unto him two wives He was the first we read of that introduced polygamy, contrary to the first insti…
One of Cain's wicked descendants is the first recorded as having broken the law of marriage. Until now, one man had only one wife at a time; but La…
