When Jehovah brought the Flood of Noah’s day, Noah and his three sons each had only one wife. All polygamists were destroyed in the Flood.
बाइबल में पहला ज़िक्र कैन के वंश के लेमेक का मिलता है जिसने एक से ज़्यादा पत्नियाँ रखी थीं ।