The Hebrew Wife, Or, The Law of Marriage, Examined in Relation to the Lawfulness of Polygamy, and to the Extent of the Law of Incest |
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... whole Law of incest . The language of this Section- " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister , to vex her , to uncover her na- kedness beside the other , in her life - time " -has received the two following constructions : 1 ...
... whole Law of incest . The language of this Section- " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister , to vex her , to uncover her na- kedness beside the other , in her life - time " -has received the two following constructions : 1 ...
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... whole human family . It was not a part of any Ceremonial Law , or of the National Law of Israel ; but was promulgated at the original institution of marriage , to the first parents of mankind , as the representatives of the whole race ...
... whole human family . It was not a part of any Ceremonial Law , or of the National Law of Israel ; but was promulgated at the original institution of marriage , to the first parents of mankind , as the representatives of the whole race ...
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... whole- some laws , relating to licentiousness , might prove occasionally incon- venient ; and so many others who are habitually civil to vice , when it does not " pick the pocket , nor break the leg ; " that we can expect no laws on ...
... whole- some laws , relating to licentiousness , might prove occasionally incon- venient ; and so many others who are habitually civil to vice , when it does not " pick the pocket , nor break the leg ; " that we can expect no laws on ...
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... whole human family , and that that law absolutely prohibited Polygamy . The question then arises , was that law repealed , as to its operation on the Israelites , by the Levitical Code ? That a single section of it , that which ...
... whole human family , and that that law absolutely prohibited Polygamy . The question then arises , was that law repealed , as to its operation on the Israelites , by the Levitical Code ? That a single section of it , that which ...
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... whole passage , thus corrected , will read as fol- lows : 7. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid- servant , she shall not go out as the men - servants do . 8 . If she please not her master , so that he does not betroth her to ...
... whole passage , thus corrected , will read as fol- lows : 7. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid- servant , she shall not go out as the men - servants do . 8 . If she please not her master , so that he does not betroth her to ...
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Abimelech abomination Achish adultery affinity another"-In the Hebrew aunt binding force brother brother-correctly brother's wife Canaanites Ceremonial Law ceremonial offence Christ command consanguinity course crime daughter's daughter death Decalogue declares denotes Deut duty expressly prohibited fact father's sister father's wife flesh forbidden forbids marriage fornication Gentiles grandmother guilty hath idolatry idols incestuous marriage instances Israelites Jacob Joash king Lamech language Law of incest Law of Israel Law of Marriage Levitical Code Levitical Law Leviticus Leviticus xviii Lord malum in se malum prohibitum marry meaning moral Moses mother nakedness of thy Original Law passage Patriarchs Peninnah phrase Polygamy propinquity prove punishment Rachel relations rendered repealed riage Scriptures sexual intercourse shalt not uncover shalt thou take sodomy son's daughter son's wife statutes Testament things thou shalt thy father's tion uncle's wife uncover the nakedness unlawful unto vols widow wife's niece wife's sister wives woman word
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Page 4 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 5 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 64 - And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Page 6 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 135 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 8 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 124 - Now Hannah, she spake in her heart ; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard : therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Page 47 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 8 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 98 - ... discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.