# he took fourteen wives for himself

The idiom "took ... wives" means that he married. Alternate translation: "he married fourteen women" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])

# fourteen wives ... twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters

"14 wives ... 22 sons and 16 daughters" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])

