'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
Does that mean God allowed polygamy?
2007-09-10 04:31:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Reds, if the first wife is dead how can the second be her rival?
2007-09-10 04:41:19 · update #1
Yes, he did. Ah, the good ole' days...
2007-09-10 04:37:26 · answer #1 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At one time, polygamy was common among just about every group on earth. Certainly the patriarchs of the Torah had more than one wife; Jacob had Leah and Rachel, for instance, who WERE sisters, by the way; that predates the commandment in Leviticus, however. King David had something like 700 wives and 300 concubines. At one time, it appears, God did indeed allow polygamy.
2007-09-10 11:43:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That means that the society in which Leviticus was written allowed polygamy. Some of its descendants still do.
Check out Leviticus 11:10-12 and 18:22 while you're in there.
2007-09-10 11:39:27 · answer #3 · answered by djnightgaunt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes God allowed polygamy Solomon had a thousand wives but God doesn't allow you to marry your wives sister that means even if you get divorced only if she dies could you marry her and before the Torah was given you were allowed to marry two sisters as we see by Jacob you were also allowed to marry your aunt as we see Amram Moses father married his aunt Yocheved
2007-09-10 13:46:56 · answer #4 · answered by The Doctor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basic answer is "Yes" He did make one wife for Adam, so it seems clear that that is His ideal, but He allowed many choices that were not ideal.
2007-09-10 11:36:48 · answer #5 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We read in God's Holy Law Book the Bible in Leviticus 18:18-23:
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am JAHWEH.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion
Using the King James Version, most faithful Bible translation (LORD is JAHWEH or JEHOVAH)
2007-09-10 11:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by JESUS means: JAHWEH is Salvation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, what it is saying is that until death do you and your wife part, you are not to even think such things.
2007-09-10 13:07:13 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh....yes....Here's a hint...How many wives did David have? A whole freaking lot.
2007-09-10 11:36:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound very unstable and easily led astray....apparently wrestling the Scriptures to your own destruction. "... They that are unlearned and unstable do wrestle, as they do other Scriptures, to their own destruction". (II Peter 3:16)
2007-09-10 11:37:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Uh.....I think you said it with Do not take ...... while she is living. THat means do not doesn't it?
2007-09-10 11:38:04 · answer #10 · answered by Reds 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋