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A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 374 — Chapter XIV

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Especially in the royal family. So in 2 Samuel, xii. 8, we read that Nathan gave David’s master’s wives unto David’s bosom. In that barbarous state of society women are inherited like cattle.

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