Wife (Wives) and children

1. Gen. 16: 1
   1 Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an ^aEgyptian, whose name was ^bHagar.
2. Gen. 20: 17
   17 ¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
3. Gen. 30: 26
   26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have ^aserved thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
4. Ex. 21: 4-5
   4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
   5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
5. Ex. 22: 24
   24 And my ^awrath shall ^bwax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
6. Lev. 20: 20-21
   20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
   21 And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is ^aan unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
7. Num. 5: 12
   12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
8. Num. 14: 3
   3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
9. Num. 16: 27
   27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their ^atents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
10. Num. 36: 8
    8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
11. Deut. 21: 15
    15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another ^ahated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
12. Deut. 25: 5
    5 ¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the ^awife of the dead shall not marry ^bwithout unto a stranger: her ^chusband’s ^dbrother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an ^ehusband’s brother unto her.
13. Deut. 28: 54
    54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
14. Judg. 14: 16
    16 And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a ^ariddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
15. Judg. 21: 18, 23
    18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
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    23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
16. 1 Sam. 1: 2
    2 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had ^ano children.
17. 1 Sam. 4: 19
    19 ¶ And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
18. 1 Sam. 30: 22
    22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
19. 2 Sam. 12: 9, 15
    9 Wherefore hast thou ^adespised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast ^bkilled ^cUriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his ^dwife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
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    15 ¶ And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
20. 1 Kgs. 14: 17
    17 ¶ And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
21. 1 Kgs. 20: 3, 5, 7
    3 Thy ^asilver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
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    5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
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    7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man ^aseeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
22. 1 Chr. 2: 18
    18 ¶ And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
23. 1 Chr. 8: 8
    8 And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
24. 2 Chr. 11: 23
    23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his ^achildren throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he ^bdesired many wives.
25. 2 Chr. 20: 13
    13 And all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
26. 2 Chr. 21: 14
    14 Behold, with a great ^aplague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
27. Ezra 2: 61
    61 ¶ And of the ^achildren of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
28. Ezra 10: 44
    44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
29. Neh. 7: 63
    63 ¶ And of the priests: the ^achildren of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
30. Neh. 12: 43
    43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them ^arejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
31. Job 19: 17
    17 My ^abreath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
32. Ps. 109: 9
    9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
33. Ps. 128: 3
    3 Thy ^awife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
34. Isa. 13: 16
    16 Their ^achildren also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their ^bhouses shall be ^cspoiled, and their wives ravished.
35. Isa. 54: 1
    1 ^aSing, O ^bbarren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
36. Jer. 6: 11
    11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
37. Jer. 18: 21
    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
38. Jer. 38: 23
    23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy ^achildren to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
39. Dan. 6: 24
    24 ¶ And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions ^ahad the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
40. Hosea 1: 2
    2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a ^awife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great ^bwhoredom, departing from the Lord.
41. Matt. 18: 25
    25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be ^asold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
42. Matt. 19: 29
    29 And every one that hath ^aforsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my ^bname’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit ^ceverlasting life.
43. Matt. 22: 24
    24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his ^abrother shall ^bmarry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
44. Mark 10: 29
    29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
45. Mark 12: 19
    19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his ^abrother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
46. Luke 2: 5
    5 To be taxed with Mary his ^aespoused wife, being great with child.
47. Luke 14: 26
    26 If any man come to me, and ^ahate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, ^byea, and his own ^clife also, he cannot be my ^ddisciple.
48. Luke 18: 29
    29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,
49. Luke 20: 28-30
    28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s ^abrother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his ^bbrother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
    29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
    30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
50. Acts 21: 5
    5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
51. 1 Cor. 7: 14
    14 For the unbelieving ^ahusband is ^bsanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is ^csanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
52. 1 Tim. 3: 12
    12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
53. Titus 1: 6
    6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of ^ariot or unruly.
54. 1 Ne. 18: 6, 19
    6 And it came to pass that on the morrow, after we had prepared all things, much fruits and ^ameat from the wilderness, and honey in abundance, and provisions according to that which the Lord had commanded us, we did go down into the ship, with all our loading and our ^bseeds, and whatsoever thing we had brought with us, every one according to his age; wherefore, we did all go down into the ^cship, with our wives and our children.
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    19 And Jacob and Joseph also, being young, having need of much nourishment, were grieved because of the afflictions of their mother; and also ^amy wife with her tears and prayers, and also my children, did not soften the hearts of my brethren that they would loose me.
55. 2 Ne. 23: 16
    16 Their ^achildren also shall be ^bdashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.
56. Jacob 2: 7, 35
    7 And also it grieveth me that I must use so much ^aboldness of speech concerning you, before your wives and your children, many of whose feelings are exceedingly tender and ^bchaste and delicate before God, which thing is pleasing unto God;
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    35 Behold, ye have done ^agreater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives, and lost the confidence of your children, because of your bad examples before them; and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you. And because of the ^bstrictness of the word of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.
57. Jacob 3: 7
    7 Behold, their ^ahusbands ^blove their ^cwives, and their wives love their husbands; and their husbands and their wives love their children; and their ^dunbelief and their hatred towards you is because of the iniquity of their fathers; wherefore, how much better are you than they, in the sight of your great Creator?
58. Mosiah 9: 2
    2 Therefore, I contended with my brethren in the wilderness, for I would that our ruler should make a treaty with them; but he being an austere and a blood-thirsty man commanded that I should be slain; but I was rescued by the shedding of much blood; for father fought against father, and brother against brother, until the greater number of our army was destroyed in the wilderness; and we returned, those of us that were spared, to the land of Zarahemla, to relate that tale to their wives and their children.
59. Mosiah 19: 11-13, 19, 22, 24
    11 Now it came to pass that the king commanded them that all the men should ^aleave their wives and their children, and flee before the Lamanites.
    12 Now there were many that would not leave them, but had rather stay and perish with them. And the rest left their wives and their children and fled.
    13 And it came to pass that those who tarried with their wives and their children caused that their fair daughters should stand forth and plead with the Lamanites that they would not slay them.
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    19 Now they had sworn in their hearts that they would return to the land of Nephi, and if their ^awives and their children were slain, and also those that had tarried with them, that they would seek revenge, and also perish with them.
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    22 And it came to pass that they were about to return to the land of Nephi, and they met the men of Gideon. And the men of Gideon told them of all that had happened to their wives and their children; and that the Lamanites had granted unto them that they might possess the land by paying a tribute to the Lamanites of one half of all they possessed.
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    24 And it came to pass that after they had ended the ceremony, that they returned to the land of Nephi, rejoicing, because their wives and their children were not slain; and they told Gideon what they had done to the king.
60. Mosiah 20: 3, 11
    3 And now the priests of king Noah, being ashamed to return to the city of Nephi, yea, and also fearing that the people would ^aslay them, therefore they durst not return to their wives and their ^bchildren.
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    11 And it came to pass that the people of Limhi began to drive the Lamanites before them; yet they were not half so numerous as the Lamanites. But they ^afought for their lives, and for their ^bwives, and for their children; therefore they exerted themselves and like dragons did they fight.
61. Mosiah 23: 28, 38
    28 Therefore they hushed their fears, and began to cry unto the Lord that he would soften the hearts of the Lamanites, that they would spare them, and their wives, and their children.
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    38 And the remainder of them went to the land of Nephi; and a part of them returned to the land of Helam, and also brought with them the wives and the children of the guards who had been left in the land.
62. Mosiah 25: 12
    12 And it came to pass that those who ^awere the children of Amulon and his brethren, who had taken to wife the ^bdaughters of the Lamanites, were displeased with the conduct of their fathers, and they would no longer be called by the names of their fathers, therefore they took upon themselves the name of Nephi, that they might be called the children of Nephi and be numbered among those who were ^ccalled Nephites.
63. Alma 2: 25
    25 And they are upon our brethren in that land; and they are fleeing before them with their flocks, and their wives, and their children, towards our city; and except we make haste they obtain possession of our city, and our fathers, and our wives, and our children be slain.
64. Alma 3: 1
    1 And it came to pass that the Nephites who were not ^aslain by the weapons of war, after having buried those who had been slain—now the number of the slain were not numbered, because of the greatness of their number—after they had finished burying their dead they all returned to their lands, and to their houses, and their wives, and their children.
65. Alma 14: 8
    8 And they brought their wives and children together, and whosoever believed or had been taught to believe in the word of God they caused that they should be ^acast into the fire; and they also brought forth their records which contained the holy scriptures, and cast them into the fire also, that they might be ^bburned and destroyed by fire.
66. Alma 15: 2
    2 And they related unto them all that had happened unto their ^awives and children, and also concerning themselves, and of their ^bpower of deliverance.
67. Alma 35: 14
    14 And Alma, and Ammon, and their brethren, and also the ^atwo sons of Alma returned to the land of Zarahemla, after having been instruments in the hands of God of bringing ^bmany of the ^cZoramites to repentance; and as many as were brought to repentance were driven out of their land; but they have lands for their inheritance in the land of Jershon, and they have taken up arms to defend themselves, and their wives, and children, and their lands.
68. Alma 43: 9, 45
    9 And now the design of the Nephites was to support their lands, and their houses, and their ^awives, and their children, that they might preserve them from the hands of their enemies; and also that they might preserve their ^brights and their privileges, yea, and also their ^cliberty, that they might worship God according to their desires.
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    45 Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a ^abetter cause, for they were not ^bfighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their ^cliberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.
69. Alma 44: 5
    5 And now, Zerahemnah, I command you, in the name of that all-powerful God, who has strengthened our arms that we have gained power over you, ^aby our faith, by our religion, and by our ^brites of worship, and by our church, and by the sacred support which we owe to our ^cwives and our children, by that ^dliberty which binds us to our lands and our country; yea, and also by the maintenance of the sacred word of God, to which we owe all our happiness; and by all that is most dear unto us—
70. Alma 46: 12
    12 And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—^aIn memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
71. Alma 48: 10, 24
    10 And thus he was preparing to ^asupport their liberty, their lands, their wives, and their children, and their peace, and that they might live unto the Lord their God, and that they might maintain that which was called by their enemies the cause of ^bChristians.
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    24 Nevertheless, they could not suffer to lay down their lives, that their ^awives and their children should be ^bmassacred by the barbarous ^ccruelty of those who were once their brethren, yea, and had ^ddissented from their church, and had left them and had gone to destroy them by joining the Lamanites.
72. Alma 54: 11
    11 But behold, it supposeth me that I talk to you concerning these things in vain; or it supposeth me that thou art a ^achild of hell; therefore I will close my epistle by telling you that I will not exchange prisoners, save it be on conditions that ye will deliver up a man and his wife and his children, for one prisoner; if this be the case that ye will do it, I will exchange.
73. Alma 56: 28
    28 And also there were sent two thousand men unto us from the land of Zarahemla. And thus we were prepared with ten thousand men, and provisions for them, and also for their wives and their children.
74. Alma 58: 12
    12 And we did take courage with our small force which we had received, and were fixed with a determination to conquer our enemies, and to ^amaintain our lands, and our possessions, and our wives, and our children, and the cause of our ^bliberty.
75. Alma 63: 4
    4 And it came to pass that in the *thirty and seventh year of the reign of the judges, there was a large company of men, even to the amount of five thousand and four hundred men, with their wives and their children, departed out of the land of Zarahemla into the land which was ^anorthward.
76. 3 Ne. 18: 21
    21 ^aPray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.
77. 3 Ne. 19: 1
    1 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had ascended into heaven, the multitude did disperse, and every man did take his wife and his children and did return to his own home.
78. 3 Ne. 22: 1
    1 And then shall that which is written come to pass: Sing, O ^abarren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into ^bsinging, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child; for more are the children of the ^cdesolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
79. Morm. 2: 23
    23 And it came to pass that I did speak unto my people, and did urge them with great energy, that they would stand boldly before the Lamanites and ^afight for their ^bwives, and their children, and their houses, and their homes.
80. Morm. 6: 7
    7 And it came to pass that my people, with their wives and their children, did now behold the ^aarmies of the Lamanites marching towards them; and with that awful ^bfear of death which fills the breasts of all the wicked, did they await to receive them.
81. Ether 14: 2
    2 Wherefore every man did cleave unto that which was his own, with his hands, and would not borrow neither would he lend; and every man kept the hilt of his sword in his right hand, in the ^adefence of his property and his own life and of his wives and children.
82. Ether 15: 2, 15
    2 He saw that there had been slain by the sword already nearly ^atwo millions of his people, and he began to sorrow in his heart; yea, there had been slain two millions of mighty men, and also their wives and their children.
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    15 And it came to pass that when they were all gathered together, every one to the army which he would, with their wives and their children—both men, women and children being armed with ^aweapons of war, having shields, and ^bbreastplates, and head-plates, and being clothed after the manner of war—they did march forth one against another to battle; and they fought all that day, and conquered not.
83. D&C 74: 1
    1 For the ^aunbelieving ^bhusband is ^csanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else were your children unclean, but now are they holy.
84. D&C 109: 69
    69 Have mercy, O Lord, upon his ^awife and children, that they may be exalted in thy presence, and preserved by thy fostering hand.
85. D&C 123: 7, 9
    7 It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and ^achildren, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and ^boppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the ^ccreeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole ^dearth groans under the weight of its iniquity.
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    9 Therefore it is an imperative duty that we owe, not only to our own wives and children, but to the ^awidows and fatherless, whose husbands and fathers have been ^bmurdered under its iron hand;
86. D&C 132: 55
    55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ^ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of ^beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
87. Moses 8: 21
    21 And also, after that they had heard him, they came up before him, saying: Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not ^aeating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown. And they hearkened not unto the words of Noah.