<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
Just want to know why we can only have one wife, did not the bible say go yee and populate
<|assistant|>
The Bible does say to "go and populate" but nowhere does it say that we can have more than one wife. When God gave the command for the Israelites to have multiple wives, it was part of a larger law that also required them to have multiple male and female slaves. Today we recognize that the Old Testament law should not be blindly applied to the modern world, and so we interpret it in a broader context to arrive at the conclusion that marriage should be monogamous.