1a
Thou shalt be fruitful and multiply and replenish the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee and subdue it: lest it be waste and desolate, and thy name be lost in the generations to come.
2a
¶ But all thy children shall be of thy wives: thou shalt not go after strange women,
2b
For so should the land be corrupt under thy feet; an abhorring to the righteous; and thy children scattered abroad;
2c
And in the mixing of thy seed, is barrenness and desolation; the corruption of the flesh, and disease and anguish.
3a
¶ Thou shalt not marry thy mother, or thy daughter, in any line, to all generations:
3b
Thou shalt not marry thy sister, or the daughter of thy sister or thy brother, or the sister of thy father or thy mother: thou shalt not marry a woman and her daughter to all generations.
4
¶ Thou shalt not marry a virgin in infantile sexual impotence; nor a dwarf, nor one hereditarily deformed, nor possessed of evil spirits, nor any one not clothed in her right mind: nor any one thou lovest not, or who loveth not thee.
5a
¶ Thou shalt not take unto thee a multitude of wives disproportionate to thine inheritance, and thy substance:
5b
Nor shalt thou take wives to vex those thou hast; neither shalt thou put away one to take another.
6a
¶ Thou shalt not put away thy wife but for adultery: the adulteress is abominable;
6b
She shall be given to the corruptions of the flesh, that her belly may swell and her thigh rot;
6c
And that she be a warning and a proverb: if she repent in dust and ashes for a long time, thou mayest forgive her; yet is she not thy wife: if thou wilt take her, thou shalt marry her again.
7a
¶ Thou shalt not lie with the wife of thy neighbor; for it is an abomination:
7b
Neither shalt thou take her to wife; she cannot be thine:
7c
If he stone thee to death, no man shall hinder: thou shalt not be avenged; what he doeth he shall do speedily.
8a
¶ Thou shalt give thy daughter in marriage while she is yet young:
8b
If thou give her not till she has been six years potent, she may give herself in marriage: thou shalt not prevent her.
9a
¶ Thou shalt take a wife to thy son, while he is yet young; yet not in his infantile impotence:
9b
Thou shalt take for him one that he loveth, and who loveth him; if thou doest it not, when he hath been seven years potent he may take one to himself: thou shalt not prevent him.
10a
¶ And if thou covenant or promise to marry a woman or a virgin, thou shalt not break thy covenant; thou shalt not draw back from thy promise:
10b
And if thou lie with one, and she conceive seed of thee, thou shalt take her to wife; thou shalt not bring her shame upon her:
10c
If thou dost her brethren shall stone thee, and none shall deliver thee; and yet thou shalt be judged for thy faithlessness:
10d
If she be not of thy rank, and her brethren fear thee, the hand of the Elders shall be against thee: thou shalt not corrupt the poor, nor bring shame upon them.
11a
¶ If thy brother have an inheritance, and die leaving a wife, but no seed, thou shalt take her to wife, and raise up seed to thy brother, that his name be not lost among the people:
11b
Thou shalt possess the inheritance with her, till the seed be grown up to possess it.
11c
If he had but a portion, it shall be thine, and the seed also.
11d
If she love thee not, or thou wilt not take her, this right goeth to the next kinsman; but no one shall take the inheritance or portion without her.
12a
¶ Moreover, if thou takest a widow in marriage, and she have been joined to another forever, thou shalt only take her for life;
12b
And it shall be expressly determined whose the seed is; whether thine, or his whose widow she is.
13
¶ If thou marry a wife having children, and they have no father in the kingdom, and she bring them to thee, they are thine: thou shalt receive them, and establish them.
14a
¶ If thou marry a wife, and she is the first representative in the faith of her progenitors and near relatives, in the redemption of the dead they shall be hers; she shall bring them to thee:
14b
If thou obtain a royal Priesthood, they shall be thine in the dominion forever: thou shalt raise them up in the last day, to increase the glory of thy kingdom.
15
¶ If a woman or a virgin obtain a good report through faith, and is chosen of God a Prince and a ruler, she shall have an inheritance appointed to her, with her husband or her brethren, that she may possess it, and her children with her, and that she may rule over all her house.