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 1 4 |      behoves even such as have wives to act as if they had not;"
 2 5 | weariness in God; but not more wives in the eye of God. And accordingly
 3 6 |   alliances not only with more wives (than one), but with concubines
 4 6 |        that both they who have wives act as if they had not:"
 5 8 |    licence" to marry, and lead wives about (with them). They
 6 11|               XI. THE MORE THE WIVES, THE GREATER THE DISTRACTION
 7 11|        in second marriage, two wives beset the same husband--
 8 11|   before the Lord with as many wives as you commemorate in prayer;
 9 12|      of such as travel without wives, have gone to rack and ruin!
10 12|  marriage. A plurality of such wives is pleasing to God. "But