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To: SeekAndFind

You can make a better case for polygamy in the Bible than you can divorce.

And yes there is one specific situation in the OT where polygamy IS condoned. When a man dies, his brother had the duty to take his brother’s wife into his household and if the brother was childless, raise up children for the brother.

You can look it up.

All that said. The guy in the article is essentially right


2 posted on 12/16/2019 8:13:29 AM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: Fai Mao

RE: When a man dies, his brother had the duty to take his brother’s wife into his household and if the brother was childless, raise up children for the brother.

Hmmm... does that mean that Hunter Biden was only following the Bible?


7 posted on 12/16/2019 8:19:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Fai Mao
When a man dies, his brother had the duty to take his brother’s wife into his household and if the brother was childless, raise up children for the brother.

Where does it say that brother is already married? Couldn't he have been single?

12 posted on 12/16/2019 8:38:23 AM PST by BipolarBob (No border walls. No voter IDs. No Electoral College. You figured it out yet?)
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To: Fai Mao

I always assumed that the brother in that case was to be a single man.


41 posted on 12/16/2019 10:02:17 AM PST by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: Fai Mao

And yes there is one specific situation in the OT where polygamy IS condoned.
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That is not polygamy; it is levirate marriage. Its intent is to provide a child who can take over the property of the deceased.

So glad that I do not have to marry any of my sisters-in-law. May they live well and long.


46 posted on 12/16/2019 10:11:57 AM PST by lurk
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