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Question:<\/span><\/p>\n Can first cousins marry?<\/span> I read that \u201cwaiver can be obtained only from the plenary council, not to create the previous cases\u201d and that: \u201cAccording to Art.<\/span> 6.<\/span><\/span>2. from the Family Code, for some solid reasons,\u00a0the Council of the county folk can allow marriage between blood relatives laterally (primary cousins), giving a reasoned decision (see decrees. 278\/1960).\u201d<\/span> What kind of reasoned decision must be there?<\/span> Can first\u00a0cousins marry, both legally and religiously?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The list of blood relatives that God forbids marriages between<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n In Chapter 18 of the book of Leviticus in the Bible there are listed\u00a0all blood relatives\u00a0between which\u00a0marriage is prohibited and there are also entered in the list the\u00a0sexual perversions that are an abomination before God.<\/span> I quote the full chapter:<\/span><\/p>\n \nThen the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,\u00a0\u201dSpeak to the sons of Israel and say to them, \u2018I am the LORD your God.\u00a0You shall not do what is one in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.\u00a0You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God.\u00a0So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.\u00a0None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the LORD.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\u2019s wife; it is your father\u2019s nakedness.\u00a0The nakedness of your sister, either your father\u2019s daughter or your mother\u2019s daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.\u00a0The nakedness of your son\u2019s daughter or your daughter\u2019s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is yours.\u00a0The nakedness of your father\u2019s wife\u2019s daughter, born to your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\u2019s sister; she is your father\u2019s blood relative.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother\u2019s sister, for she is your mother\u2019s blood relative.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\u2019s brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son\u2019s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother\u2019s wife; it is your brother\u2019s nakedness.\u00a0You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son\u2019s daughter or her daughter\u2019s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.\u00a0You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.\u00a0Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.\u00a0You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor\u2019s wife, to be defiled with her.\u00a0You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.\u00a0You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.\u00a0Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.\u00a0Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.\u00a0For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.\u00a0But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you\u00a0(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);\u00a0so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.\u00a0For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.\u00a0Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.\u2019\u201d (<\/span><\/span>Leviticus 18:1-30)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In this list of blood relatives between which marriages are prohibited\u00a0we do not find\u00a0cousins.<\/span> Even more, the Bible tells about \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Marriage between two cousins: Othniel and Achsah <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n When Israel conquered the land of Canaan \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n (Joshua 15:13-17)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Othniel was the son of Kenaz, Caleb\u2019s brother and thus they were first cousins with\u00a0Achsah, for whom he fought to\u00a0be able to have her as his\u00a0wife.<\/span> Caleb was a very faithful and courageous man and if it had been a violation against God\u2019s commandments, he would not have allowed the marriage between\u00a0Othniel and Achsah.<\/span> But he gave Achsah to Othniel as a\u00a0wife.<\/span><\/p>\n I do not know what the article in the Family Code means by\u00a0\u201dreasoned decision.\u201d<\/span> I invite lawyers who read this article to\u00a0explain what this means.<\/span><\/p>\n Translated by Felicia Rotaru<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Can first cousins marry? I read that \u201cwaiver can be obtained only from the plenary council, not to create the previous cases\u201d and that: \u201cAccording to Art. 6.2. from the Family Code, for some solid reasons,\u00a0the Council of the county folk can allow marriage between blood relatives laterally (primary cousins), giving a reasoned decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[7842,19640],"class_list":{"0":"post-81550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-answer-from-the-bible","7":"tag-marriage","8":"tag-first-cousins","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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\nNow he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah, according to the command of the LORD to Joshua, namely, Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron).\u00a0Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak.\u00a0Then he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.\u00a0And Caleb said, \u201cThe one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife.\u201d\u00a0Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n