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<ref>Genesis 30:9 Leah gives Jacob Zilpah to marry [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/01/30.html#9]</ref>

<ref>Genesis 30:9 Leah gives Jacob Zilpah to marry [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/01/30.html#9]</ref>

, [[Moses]] <ref>Exodus 2:21 Moses marries Zippo'rah [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/02/2.html#21]</ref>

, [[Moses]] <ref>Exodus 2:21 Moses marries Zippo'rah [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/02/2.html#21]</ref>

<ref>Numbers 12:1 Moses’s marriage to an Ethiopian woman[http://aol.bartleby.com/108/04/12.html#1]</ref>, [[Solomon]] <ref>1 Kings 11:3 Solomon had 700 wives [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/11/11.html#3]</ref>, and [[David]] <ref>1 Samuel 25 – 25:39 David marries Abigail, 25:43 David marries Ahinoam, and 25:44 David marries Michal [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/09/25.html#]</ref>, for example, are all described as having more than one wife.  The [[Koran]] also approves of polygyny <ref>Koran 4:3-4http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/004.qmt.html#004.003]</ref>.  The practice was also known among European tribes in pre-Christian Europe and in both China and Japan

<ref>Numbers 12:1 Moses’s marriage to an Ethiopian woman[http://aol.bartleby.com/108/04/12.html#1]</ref>, [[Solomon]] <ref>1 Kings 11:3 Solomon had 700 wives [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/11/11.html#3]</ref>, and [[David]] <ref>1 Samuel 25 – 25:39 David marries Abigail, 25:43 David marries Ahinoam, and 25:44 David marries Michal [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/09/25.html#]</ref>, for example, are all described as having more than one wife. While David was polygynous, the Bible says that he "did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uri'ah the Hittite."<ref>I Kings 15:5 [http://aol.bartleby.com/108/11/15.html#5]</ref>  Indeed, Deuteronomy gives an inheritance rule for polygynous families.<ref>Deuteronomy 21:15-17 [http://www.bartleby.com/108/05/21.html#15]</ref> The [[Koran]] also approves of polygyny <ref>Koran 4:3-4http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/004.qmt.html#004.003]</ref>.  The practice was also known among European tribes in pre-Christian Europe and in both China and Japan

<ref>Polygyny in Europe and China[http://www.trivia-library.com/b/alternative-forms-of-marriage-polygyny-part-1.htm]</ref>.  In the modern world polygyny is practiced to some extent in China<ref>Lang and Smart.  “Migration and the Second Wife in South China: Toward cross-border polygyny” The International migration review  2002, vol. 36, no2, pp. 546-569 [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13830800]</ref>, among fundamentalist Mormons<ref>News story on Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints[http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2006-05-25/news/it-practices-what-they-preach/]</ref> (the mainstream Mormon Church outlawed the practice in 1890<ref>LDS official position[http://www.mormon.org/question/faq/category/answer/0,9777,1601-1-114-1,00.html]</ref>) and in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa <ref>Brown, Judith E. “Polygyny and Family Planning in sub-Saharan Africa”  Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 12, No. 8/9 (Aug. - Sep., 1981), pp. 322-326.  Abstract.  [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3665(198108%2F09)12%3A8%2F9%3C322%3APAFPIS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U]</ref>.

<ref>Polygyny in Europe and China[http://www.trivia-library.com/b/alternative-forms-of-marriage-polygyny-part-1.htm]</ref>.  In the modern world polygyny is practiced to some extent in China<ref>Lang and Smart.  “Migration and the Second Wife in South China: Toward cross-border polygyny” The International migration review  2002, vol. 36, no2, pp. 546-569 [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13830800]</ref>, among fundamentalist Mormons<ref>News story on Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints[http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2006-05-25/news/it-practices-what-they-preach/]</ref> (the mainstream Mormon Church outlawed the practice in 1890<ref>LDS official position[http://www.mormon.org/question/faq/category/answer/0,9777,1601-1-114-1,00.html]</ref>) and in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa <ref>Brown, Judith E. “Polygyny and Family Planning in sub-Saharan Africa”  Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 12, No. 8/9 (Aug. - Sep., 1981), pp. 322-326.  Abstract.  [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3665(198108%2F09)12%3A8%2F9%3C322%3APAFPIS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U]</ref>.