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Cross-Referenced to the Bible
(compare) = Instructive to compare the two texts
(same)       = Material in both texts is the same
(reference)= Material in one text refers to material in the other

083:03.02 Buying wives Genesis 29:18-20 (Compare) "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her."

083:05.01 Divorce Deuteronomy 24:1 (Compare) "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house."

083:05.04 Proxy husbands Deuteronomy 25:5-6 (Compare) "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel."

083:05.04 Proxy husbands Genesis 38:6-10 (Compare) "And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also."

083:05.04 Proxy husbands Luke 20:28 (Same) "Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."

083:05.04 Proxy husbands Mark 12:19 (Same) "Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."

083:05.04 Proxy husbands Matthew 22:24 (Same) "Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."

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Bible cross-references are from the Paramony, by Dr. Duane Faw
Available as a separate volume from Uversa Press


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