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| − | ==Question: Does the Book of Mormon condemn polygamy?==
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| − | ==="For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things"===
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| − | {{scripture||Jacob|2|24-29}} states:
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| − | 24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
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| − | 25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
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| − | 26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
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| − | 27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
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| − | 28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
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| − | 29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
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| − | Critics of the Book of Mormon generally refrain from citing the ''very next verse'':
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| − | 30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things. ([http://scriptures.lds.org/jacob/2/30#30 Jacob 2:30]).
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| − | The Book of Mormon makes it clear that the Lord may, under some circumstances, command the practice of plural marriage.
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