# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1856_S160
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Table
of the Prohibited Degrees of Kinship.

(Conclusion of the article in the previous numbers: On Forbidden Marriages.)

Take Not in Marriage

Step- and parents-in-law's great-grandparents; grandparents; parents.

the husband's brother; the wife's sister.

Step- and children-in-law's children; grandchildren; great-grandchildren.

Great-grandparents; grandparents; parents.

Children; grandchildren; great-grandchildren.

The parents' siblings.
The widow of the parents' brother.

Siblings; half-siblings.
The brother's widow; the sister's widower.

The children of siblings.

Following the foregoing discussion, we would note further, in conclusion, that it is, on the other hand, not forbidden in God's Word for a marriage to be contracted between first cousins, or between step-children brought together from different marriages, or when one pair of siblings marries another pair of siblings, or when father and son marry mother and daughter, or two sisters, and so forth.