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Bigamy

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Polygamy.

Bigamy — one man taking a second wife alongside the first — falls under the broader scriptural treatment of polygamy: a practice the narrative books trace from Lamech through the patriarchs and into the royal houses, regulated rather than commanded by the Mosaic law, and constrained in the apostolic letters to the husband of one wife.

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