Doctrine and Covenants 132: 1

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 132

1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many ^awives and ^bconcubines—

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Ex. 21: 10 (1, 7-11).

10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her ^aduty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Jacob 2: 24 (23-30).

24 Behold, David and ^aSolomon truly had many ^bwives and concubines, which thing was ^cabominable before me, saith the Lord.

D&C 132: 38 (34, 37-39).

38 David also received ^amany wives and concubines, and also Solomon and Moses my servants, as also many others of my servants, from the beginning of creation until this time; and in nothing did they sin save in those things which they received not of me.

TG Marriage, Plural.

Gen. 25: 6.

6 But unto the sons of the ^aconcubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and ^bsent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the ^ceast country.

TG Concubine.