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aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are;
but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to
pay taxes to Caesar or not?

Luke 20:21
So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is
right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in
accordance with the truth.

It is ever my desire to teach the word of God without partiality, prejudice, or the fear
of man. I appreciate the sincere comments and questions that I have received. Yahweh has
encouraged me greatly to press on with this teaching. I will share a few additional insights
pertaining to the allowance Yahweh has made for a man to have more than one living wife.
First I will mention an instance in which Yahweh portrays Himself as having more than one
wife.

Ezekiel 23:1-4
The word of Yahweh came to me again saying, "Son of man, there were two
women, the daughters of one mother; and they played the harlot in Egypt.
They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed, and there
their virgin bosom was handled. And their names were Oholah the elder and
Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and
daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.”

Without question, Yahweh would never set forth an image of Himself as an adulterer.
Therefore, it must be concluded that the example He has used here is not to be construed
as adultery. The righteousness of Yahweh is not impugned in any way by this analogy.
A further example is found in the Law which Yahweh delivered to Moses. This is
related to the subject of the kinsman redeemer. If a man took a wife, and he died before
having offspring, his name would be cut-off from the land. This was considered a great
tragedy. To prevent this from occurring, the brother of the deceased man was instructed to
take his wife, and to raise up seed for the deceased. The firstborn, in this way, would take
the name of the dead brother, and be considered his descendant. Any further sons and
daughters would belong to the living brother.

Deuteronomy 25:5-6
"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the
deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's
brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a
husband's brother to her. And it shall be that the first-born whom she bears shall
assume the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out from
Israel.”

Note here that there is no mention whatsoever of the living brother being required to
be single. It would very often happen to be the case that the only living brother, or brothers,
would already be married. Despite this fact, these men were to take the brother’s wife to be
their own, and to raise up seed for the deceased. We can therefore observe that there were