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 (according to Grotius) allowed polygamy. But there is no necessity for disputing the authority of these precepts, since they impliedly sanction the very marriage in dispute. The whole question turns on the eighteenth verse:

Upon this, Dr. Dodd's commentary is:

Adam Clarke says:

"Thou shalt not marry two sisters at the same time, as Jacob did Rachael and Lea; but there is nothing in this law that rendered it illegal to marry a sister-in-law, when her sister was dead; therefore the text says, thou