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

Then Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech! For I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for hurting me.

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

So 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 still another seven years."

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

Gideon had seventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives.

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce 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.

So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing [children.] Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.

Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she [was] barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

When the LORD saw that Leah [was] unloved, 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 no children.

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