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Polygamy was a rare exception in post-exilic Israel. [16] The practice began to be criticized and declined during the intertestamental period [17]: 59–62 but there is some extant evidence of polygamy being practiced in the New Testament period.
Although the Old Testament describes numerous examples of polygamy among devotees to God, most Christian groups have rejected the practice of polygamy and have upheld monogamy alone as normative. Nevertheless, some Christians groups in different periods have practiced, or currently do practice, polygamy.
Ezekiel implies [33] that, in his time, marriage between a man and his stepmother, or his daughter-in-law, or his sister, were frequent. [37] This situation seems to be the target of the Deuteronomic version of the incest prohibition, which only addresses roughly the same three issues [ 1 ] [ 33 ] (though prohibiting the mother-in-law in place ...
Aug. 19—"You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.' But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a ...
Polygyny, or men having multiple wives at once, is one of the most common marital arrangements represented in the Old Testament, [1] yet scholars doubt that it was common among average Israelites because of the wealth needed to practice it. [2] Both the biblical patriarchs and kings of Israel are described as engaged in polygamous relationships ...
The chapter begins with God speaking to Moses (verse 1) and giving him a message for the Israelites (2), warning them to keep God's laws rather than Canaanite or Egyptian practices (3–5). Then God is quoted as listing people with whom sex is forbidden due to family relationships (6–19).
Regarding the above passage, Matthew Henry comments: Here you have, 1. A recommendation of God's ordinance of marriage, that it is honourable in all, … 2. A dreadful but just censure of impurity and lewdness." [37] John Wesley believed this scripture and the sure judgment of God, even though adulterers "frequently escape the sentence of men ...
The Deuteronomic Code is the name given by academics to the law code set out in chapters 12 to 26 of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible. [1] The code outlines a special relationship between the Israelites and Yahweh [2] and provides instructions covering "a variety of topics including religious ceremonies and ritual purity, civil and criminal law, and the conduct of war". [1]