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My bad; I entirely slipped up on Moses. This is what sometimes comes of doing things from memory...

But this doesn't address wives and concubines; a great many Old Testament figures were polygamists and nowhere (that I can find) in the OT does it specifically call them out on this practice for that reason alone. There's always something else ancillary floating about to pin the blame on it seems.

Yes, some of the greatest and most celibrated prophets were either celibate or monogamous, but many others in the OT that are celebrated as "Godly" men were not and had a bevy of wives or concubines.

If you can find where the practice is specifically prohibited, point it out to me, because I know there are a few verses in the OT that mention the practice and set some form of religious canon about it.

My point is that "marriage" even in biblical times wasn't as sarcosant as some are positioning it today. It's hard to seperate what governments thought of marriage back then, since religion and government were so closely intermixed and intertwined, but I would position that what is known to historians certainly doesn't shine pure white heavenly light on the ceremony or practice...