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Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter?
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Question: Does the Bible prohibit polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter?
A biblical prohibition under the Mosaic law prohibited polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter or two sisters
A biblical prohibition under the Mosaic law prohibited polygamous marriages involving a mother and daughter:
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. Leviticus 18꞉18
The law also prohibited one from marrying two sisters:
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. Leviticus 20꞉14
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