19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, …
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.
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-22)We have here some particulars concerning Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the line of Cain. Observe, I. His marrying two wives. It was one of the degenerate race of Cain who first transgressed that original law of marriage that two only should be one flesh. Hitherto one man had but one wife at a time; but Lamech took two. From the beginning it was not so . Mal. 2:15 ; Matt. 19:5 . See here, 1. Tho…
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