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Deuteronomy 21:15-17
"If a man have two wives…" The text doesn't say that the man is an adulterer or that he must put one of his wives away. In fact, this commandment would be nonsensical if God had completely forbidden polygyny. Marrying two women might be foolish in almost every circumstance, but it's not a sin or else the following rules about the children of forbidden unions would make this law completely unnecessary.

Favoritism breeds jealousy and bitterness, which become the seeds of even greater destruction. To a certain extent, favoritism is inevitable. Parents have favorite children, children have favorite parents, and a polygynous man is almost certain to have a favorite wife. It's just human nature. That in itself wouldn't be a serious problem except it usually becomes the basis of sin, neglect, or abuse. The firstborn son of a free wife must be considered the firstborn of his father, regardless of how the man feels about that son's mother.

We are prone to poor decisions based on emotion rather than reason and spiritual insight. Torah moderates our weaknesses. If we follow God's laws no matter how we might feel, we are very unlikely to go wrong.

Does anyone else feel like since committing to keep Torah, Yah has opened up a Pandora's box of sorts where you can't fully grasp one concept before having 3-4 more presented? I feel like I'm constantly adapting a new part of Torah to my life but, for every one thing I take on with understanding, there are a handful more waiting in the wings, being presented to me regularly, through various different methods. It's very exciting, like having a stack of gifts for you to unwrap but, each one having deeper meaning than the one before.

Pro 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Pro 6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

Pro 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Pro 6:24 To keep thee from the #evil woman, from the #flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pro 6:25 #Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Pro 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

"We might look at Samson and his infatuation with Delilah, and consider him gullible — stupid even. But it was his lust for Delilah that blinded him to her lies and her true nature. He wanted so badly to believe she loved him that he repeatedly fell for her deceptive ways."

Solomon Joseph Solomon (1860-1927), Samson, 1887, oil on canvas, 243.8 x 365.8 cm. Walker Art Gallery.