Sentences with phrase «want concubines»

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Most do not want to return to a time when fathers owned their daughters and sold them to the highest bidder (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10), when multiple wives and concubines were a part of everyday life (even for men of God like Abraham, Jacob, and David), when women were forbidden from owning property, when foreign virgins could be captured as spoils of war (Judges 21), when a woman's lack of virginity could get her executed (Deuteronomy 22:11, Leviticus), when the stories of brave women like Tamar and Dinah and Esther and Vashti and Leah and Rachel emerge from contexts of oppression.

My gubernatorial wanting is a no go at least here upon the megalithic concubines of monolithic measuring ways and means!

Yirou puts Tianxin under house arrest, the Emperor wants to name Tianxin as his imperial concubine again.

I wanted to fictionalize and write about this regicidal plot from the concubines» perspective because I admired how they fought back against the emperor, and were willing to sacrifice their lives to do so.