Yes, this was in response to your claim that marriages were arraigned to prevent inbreeding and the Church prohibiting 1st and 2nd cousins from marrying. I gave an example showing, that despite the Church prohibiting cousins from marrying, these marraiges still took place. In the case of the Habsburg Dynasty, the Church actually sanctioned uncle-niece marriages, first cousin, and second cousin marriages. This also occured in other royal families and dynasties as well.
True, but inheritance and succession were also important to many commoner and peasant families, just on a much smaller scale. Marriages among commoner and peasants were also used to put an end to a conflict between families or clans, gain a higher status in the community, and to preserve culture and tradition.
The first and upmost priority in marriage was to prevent inbreeding. It's why the parents of the bride and groom, sought
to ensure that the two were not related.
Inheritance was important among the peasant class, but not as important as preventing inbreeding.
It's why a male had to have both financial and social status to attract a female in the first place.
One a girl chose a potential mate, the father then looked at the other qualifications for his daughter.
Sure, there were some who married off their daughters just to get rid of them, but they are rare. Some
also sold their children into slavery just to get rid of them. But what's the point?
Marriage existed and the Jews had rituals to follow in the betrothal and marriage of a couple.
The United States was actually founded on the Jewish Republic as in the Exodus story. Many
think it had to do with the Aristotal and many today look at the French Revolution as being
the optimum for liberty. The problem is that the French Revolution only lasted 10 years and
the dictator Napolean took over. The French Revolution was closer to atheism than to anything
the Founding Father's of the US had in mind.