Having entered thus fully on the subject of marriage, a few further particulars may be of interest. The bars to marriage mentioned in the Bible are sufficiently known. To these the Rabbis added others, which have been arranged under two heads—farther extending the laws of kindred (to their secondary degrees), and as intended to guard morality. The former were extended over the whole line of forbidden kindred, where that line was direct, and to one link farther where the line became indirect—, for example, to the wife of a maternal uncle, or to the step-mother of a wife.
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Author: Alfred Edersheim
Keywords: Marriage, Betrothal, Wedding, Jewish weddings, Marriage prohibitions, Incest
Bible reference(s): Leviticus 21:13-14, Deuteronomy 22:30
Source: Sketches of Jewish Social Life, 1876.
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