Page 31 - The Marriage Covenant

Leviticus 18:20
And you shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her.

Leviticus 20:10
If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits
adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put
to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man
who lay with the woman, and the woman...

A woman, on the other hand, is always considered an adulteress if she has more than
one husband. She is also considered an adulteress, if while married to a husband, she has
sexual relations with a man other than her husband.

Romans 7:2-3
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her
husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then if, while
her husband is living, she is joined to another man, she shall be called an
adulteress...

Due to the influence of the culture we live in, and the absence of an understanding of
divine government, and of male and female roles as determined by God at the time of
creation, I know that stating this matter in this way will provoke a strong emotional
response among some Christians. Yet, we are called to “rightly divide the word of God.” In
doing so we must agree that Yahweh permitted a man to have more than one wife, while He
did not ever permit a woman to have more than one husband.
When one “rightly divides the word of God” they will understand that a man can have
more than one living wife and not be considered an adulterer in the eyes of God. Such a man
is not even considered a transgressor. Yet the man who has just one wife may be an
adulterer, for if the woman has previously been married to another man who is yet living,
both the woman and the man who takes her as wife are in a state of adultery.
The reason Yahweh allowed men to have more than one wife, while not allowing
women to have more than one husband, pertains to their creation.

I Corinthians 11:8-9
Man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not
created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

I Corinthians 11:7
Man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but
the woman is the glory of man.

Man was created to be the image and glory of God. As such, man fulfills a role in the
creation that is patterned after His creator. God may have multiple worshipers, and may be