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Thomas Berney Marriage with a deceased wife's sister or with a niece contrary to the holy law of God and to the laws and customs of the Jews… (1885)

Incest with thy daughter-in-law thou shalt not commit: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not commit incest with her. 16. Incest with thy brother's wife thou shalt not commit: it is incest with thy brother.
17. Incest thou shalt not commit with a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to commit incest with her: for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18. Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, even though one after the other, to commit incest with her, to vex her in her life.
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Thomas Berney Marriage with a deceased wife's sister or with a niece contrary to the holy law of God and to the laws and customs of the Jews… (1885)

The Noble Peers and Honourable Members of the Legislature, who will read this version of Holy Scripture, with a prayerful desire to search for truth as it is before God, and with confidence that I would not willingly deceive them; cannot but feel that very many Members of each House of the Legislature have repeatedly been guilty of very great "wickedness" by the votes they have given in respect of this subject
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