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  • Incestuous Marriages—How Should Christians View Them?
    The Watchtower—1978 | March 15
    • Marriage to a half sister was prohibited, but no prohibition is stated against a son marrying a stepdaughter of his father, that is, an adoptive daughter, not the offspring of the son’s parents.​—Lev. 18:11.b

  • Incestuous Marriages—How Should Christians View Them?
    The Watchtower—1978 | March 15
    • b Note that the listing in the book Aid to Bible Understanding, page 1041, erroneously lists such marriage as prohibited. The text (Leviticus 18:11) actually specifies that the daughter is the “offspring of your father,” hence not adoptive. The chart in the February 1, 1975, Watchtower, page 73, correctly omits any prohibition of marriage with one’s stepsister.

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