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1 | Does God endorse polygamy? | 1 Kin 11:3 | srbaegon | 175567 | ||
Hello Hugh, Lev 20:10 (ESV) If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Num 5:11-15 (ESV) And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and breaks faith with him, if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act, and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself, 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance." Obviously, adultery is possible. It is sin. Steve |
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2 | Does God endorse polygamy? | 1 Kin 11:3 | Face | 175678 | ||
Interestingly enough, the law you point out was the law of jealousy for a man with his wife. There was no law of jealousy for a woman towards her husband. It was the woman on trial for adultery in this case. The husband suspected infidelity and this was to be a special test from Yahweh himself to prove or disprove her guilt. Yes, adultery is possible, the married woman somehow made her husband suspicious. But nowhere was a man called for adultery for taking more than one wife, nor was provision given for a jealous wife. |
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