Marriage Between Cousins

“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to he who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.” — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. — read the full passage →

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. — read the full passage →

Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. — read the full passage →

If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don’t put him to death;

“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel. — read the full passage →

“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me;

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. — read the full passage →

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.

Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’

Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →