The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Genesis 32:22-24
He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Matters of Interpretation 
2 responses to “Ninth Sunday After Pentecost”
Of course this isn’t original with me, but I like to bring this up if anyone ever
talks to me about “traditional Biblical marriage.”
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LOL – so much harder to fit “one man and however many women in some set of specific arrangements for however long” on a bumper sticker …
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