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Enjoyed a status in Israel not assigned to them in the East now. Mahometanism especially has degraded women in Asia and Africa; anciently they had a liberty not now accorded them, veiling was not then required as now: e.g. Rebekah, -65; Rachel, ; Sarah, -19; Miriam led a band of women with triumphant song, -21; so Jephthah's daughter, ; the maidens of Shiloh, ; the women meeting Saul and David after victory; -7; Hannah, ; Deborah, Judges 4 and Judges 5; Huldah, ; Noadiah, ; Anna, .
The virtuous matron is admirably pictured , etc. Polygamy transferred power from the wives to the queen mother (called therefore gebiraah "powerful"), ; ; separate establishments were kept for the wives collectively or individually, "the house of the women" (; ; ); the wives had severally a separate tent (); the women were present at table (; ; ).