The quran mentions that you may marry one wife or live with a concubine. I need to know from the bible and genesis the verses that show the details of this relationship and its rules and borderlines.
2007-06-08 10:52:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to what I know from the Quran and Bible (both New/ Old testaments); the concubine is not a servant or a slave or a war captive. She is a girlfriend / mistress and both of you should not be married during the relation or it would be adultry. In modern life, The concubine is the exact term for mistress or girlfriend
2007-06-08 11:18:40 · update #1
The concubine was a wife of secondary rank. There are various laws recorded providing for their protection (Ex. 21:7; Deut. 21:10-14), and setting limits to the relation they sustained to the household to which they belonged (Gen. 21:14; 25:6). They had no authority in the family, nor could they share in the household government.
2007-06-08 11:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A wife has a marriage ceremony, the concubine does not.
She is to be cared for an treated as if she was a wife, she was not to be abused by him.
Most of the time, concubines were slaves of the wife of the husband (man).
But if the son of the concubine is the first born son, heir, then he as all the legal rights as such even though his mother is a concubine and not a wife.
2007-06-08 11:01:53 · answer #2 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not clear at all about concubines, who they are, what their rights are, or too much else. Concubines were a wife that had no rights as a wife, but were more of a servant that could have sex with the husband and have babies but that was about all that was said on the subject except for God telling Abraham to listen to his wife to get rid of the bondwoman; Genesis 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.Genesis 21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
This bondwoman is the Nation of Arabs
Galatians 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
2007-06-08 11:07:58 · answer #3 · answered by sirromo4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, the Bible doesn't really work like the Quran.
These relationships are mentioned, men had them in Genesis, etc. but never does the Bible say, "You can have 1 wife, and several others as long as you..." or anything close to that.
Genesis isn't that large of a book. Perhaps you should browse it yourself....
2007-06-08 10:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by LadeeLuvleeLox 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-09 12:32:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋