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160 no prohibition in this law is to be excepted, because all are founded on the same common basis.

Through all this extended discussion it was necessary to pass, in order to prepare the way for proving the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's sister to be unlawful and incestuous. Had our brother not denied the true design and perpetuity of the Levitical law, but admitted it as prescribing limits to marriage, and permanent in its obligation, we might, without all this previous labor, have entered immediately on the proof that such marriages are prohibited by these Levitical statutes.