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Was adultery common in the time of King David?

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A:Around the time The Bible was being written, in the middle of the first millennium BCE, it was considered adultery for a man to have sex with another Israelite's wife, but not if he did so with a single woman, widow, prostitute or foreigner's wife. Polygamy was also permissible, although not common. So, adultery as narrowly defined was probably not very common. Whether adultery was so narrowly defined at the beginning of the tenth century BCE is unknowable.
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