The additional wives would help with the housework, help take care of the children, help do the farming or the gathering or whatever the traditional work of women was in that particular culture. As he says it, you just catch a frame of the lawyers running into the scene and then it cuts to the titles. It's been an eventful week or two, and if you only get your local news from the Tulsa Whirled, you don't know the entire story. This was not a vain repetition, but adevout reiteration of his request.