And Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah: Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech, listen to my speech! For I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for striking me.

And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him; and he went in to her.

And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?

Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me yet another seven years.

And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maidservant.

And Gideon had seventy sons proceeding from his loins, for he had many wives.

He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, See now, Jehovah has restrained me from bearing. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall build up a family by her. And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.

And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

When Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.