Lion King
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See now this is what I was wondering about... If God told us not to sleep with blood relatives then wouldn't that apply to the beginning as well? Glad you brought this up.
Incest was not a sin before the Mosaic Law. For example: Abraham marrying his own half-sister, Sarah:
And Abraham said, Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife. But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my fathers house, that I said to her, This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother. Genesis 20:11-13
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Cursed be he that lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. Deuteronomy 27:22
Why would it have been ok to marry one's own sister?
...because this command had to be fulfilled.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:28
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