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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 18:17

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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18:17 As with all examples listed in ch 18, marrying a woman together with her daughter or granddaughter was prohibited because of the disruption it would cause in the family order. It would violate the intimacy of the family group by forcing a wife to compete for her husband’s affections against a much younger woman. The penalty for this act was death by burning (20:14).
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