diehardbiker65 said:
I am totally opposed to polygamous because of jealous issues. It only leads to fights between same sex of spouse. For example, man who married two women, and these poor two women will always be in fight with each other, and one of them will be jealous over other woman. It is not fair, and not healthy.
Well Jacob did alright.
Rachel was barren. Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him
Reuben, for she said, "It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now."
She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son. So she named him
Simeon.
Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borned him 3 sons." So he was named
Levi.
She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son. So she named him
Judah. Then she stopped having children.
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"
Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel named him
Dan.
Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Then Rachel named him
Naphtali.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah she named him
Gad.
Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. Then Leah named him
Asher.
During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Bus she said to her, "Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?"
"Very well," Rachel said, "he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."
So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
Leah bore Jacob a fifth son and named him
Issachar.
Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. And named him
Zebulun. Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her
Dinah. Then God opened Rachel's womb and she became pregnat and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace." She named him
Joseph.
Wow 12 children, Jacob had... LOL!!!!