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To: sevenbak
People keep bringing up Keturah. As if that has anything to do with polygamy. In fact on another thread one Mormon was unaware that Sarah had died when Keturah married Abraham.

“To wife” does not mean marry.
As for Rachel and Leah and their handmaidens, they also gave them to Jacob to wife. They were property. They were not equal to being a wife of Jacob. Leah and Rachel were.

Polygamy tends to relegate women to simply being property. As that one Mormon elder or prophet said, “I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying another cow.”

402 posted on 09/29/2007 6:10:40 AM PDT by JRochelle ( Soros is evil.)
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To: JRochelle; tantiboh; Utah Girl; Grig
Polygamy tends to relegate women to simply being property. As that one Mormon elder or prophet said, “I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying another cow.”

Please if you are going to make statements like that give the source and from where and who made the quoted!

I could not be ready to receive a witness from the Holy Spirit if I saw every thing in the world through jaded eyes either

430 posted on 09/29/2007 8:08:53 PM PDT by restornu (No one is perfect but you can always strive to do the right thing! Press Forward Mitt!)
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To: JRochelle
People keep bringing up Keturah

People keep bringing up Keturah because it goes to the heart of the matter, fulfilling the promises made by God to Abraham, that his seed would fill the entire earth. Polygamy is not the big issue that everyone here today makes of Abraham's acts, it was about seed, and raising a righteous people, God's covenant people. I can't remember how many children he had by her, I think 4 or 5.

561 posted on 10/04/2007 11:46:17 PM PDT by sevenbak (Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. ~Psalms 85:11)
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