Bible Verses About Polygamy

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

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.

Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

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