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012 Why Did Plural Marriage Begin in the Church?

Church History Matters

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The Prophet's Reluctant Polygamy

He knows about this in 1831, but it's much, much later that the practice is begun. The prophet hesitated and deferred from time to time until an angel of God stood by him with a drawn sword and told them that unless he moved forward and established plural marriage, his priesthood would be taken from him and he should be destroyed. This testimony, he not only bore to my brother, that's Lorenzo Snow, but to others. So there is a period of hesitancy and that might explain the years.

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