This is why Westboro Baptist Church is a joke

[kandrathe]

Even the "religious history" of marriage can be questioned as this little cartoon likes to point out.

Yeah, the Old Testament, can seem inconsistent, which is why most Christians only use it as a reference. Understand too, that it is describes the journey of an ever changing relationship between man and God. Each time there is an agreement, man fails, and then God needs to come up with a new deal (covenant) to redeem his fallen creation.

Judaism has a whole additional cannon of work in the Talmud, to describe how they resolve it. The ancient Hebrew society was polygynous, but also practiced Beena, which is a form of matriarchy (the woman's home is her castle). The women ran the households, but husbands were free to move between them. A husband has the obligation to provide for each wife.