Marriage Between Cousins

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

this <FI>is<Fi> the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, to a family of the tribe of their fathers let them be for wives;

rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take for thyself from thence a wife, of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother;

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

but unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;

but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

`If another <FI>woman<Fi> he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

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

and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

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

and Caleb saith, `He who smiteth Kirjath-Sepher--and hath captured it--then I have given to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.' — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength. — read the full passage →

`The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she <FI>is<Fi> thine aunt.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.

`Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife; — read the full passage →

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

this only do I wish to learn from you--by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. — read the full passage →

`Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things <FI>are<Fi> ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

Praise Him with blowing of trumpet, Praise Him with psaltery and harp.

A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me. — read the full passage →

`And if the people of the land really hide their eyes from that man, in his giving of his seed to the Molech, so as not to put him to death,

`Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And the heads of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, come near, and speak before Moses, and before the princes, heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel, — read the full passage →

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness <FI>is<Fi> on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, — read the full passage →

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. — read the full passage →

`Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations, and languages, who are dwelling in all the earth: Your peace be great! — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass as David sat in his house, that David saith unto Nathan the prophet, `Lo, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> under curtains;' — read the full passage →

`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> thy brother's nakedness.

`The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> the nakedness of thy father.

`My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God;

neither dost thou go up by steps on Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not revealed upon it.

and Esau goeth unto Ishmael, and taketh Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister of Nebajoth, unto his wives, to himself, for a wife.

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, — read the full passage →