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Recap of Understanding Divorce

• The Lord Yache, gave commandments in the Gospel concerning divorce explaining the proper grounds for divorce according the original law [Gen 2:23] in order to give the truth and grace to fully understand the precept that Moses gave for divorce, due to the hardness of the hearts of the Israelites.[Matt 19:7-8] Based on the edification on the understanding of divorce, the grounds for divorce are:​

  1. A believer is free to divorce and marry another in the Lord, [I Co 7:39] if the unbelieving spouse commits fornication or adultery. [Matt 19:9; Mark 10:12]]

  2. A believer must not live with a believing spouse if the spouse is detected in adultery [Shepherd of Hermas Mandate 4] or fornication. [Matt 19:9; Mark 10:11-12]  The believer must remain alone to give the spouse at fault an opportunity to repent and return. There is one opportunity of repentance from adultery for a believing spouse and if they continue in their fornication, then the believer is free to divorce them and marry another, only in the Lord. [Shepherd of Hermas Mandate 4; I Co 7:39]

  3. If a spouse dies, the living spouse is free to marry another, only in the Lord [I Co 7:39] and it is not adultery though he/she is married to another in this case. [Rom 7:2-3]

  4. If a man take a wife of the virgins of Israel and goes in unto her, and hates her, and brings up an evil name upon her saying she was not a virgin and the occasion of speech against her be false, she shall be his wife and he may not put her away all his days. [Deu 22:13-19]

  5. A woman who is a bondwoman (maid-wife) is free to return to her family if her husband is not providing the 3 provisions of a marriage: food, raiment, and duty of marriage. [Exo 21:10-11] She may be given in marriage to a man of understanding after she goes out free. [Sir 7:25]

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Please visit the tab on Understanding Divorce for further in depth edification: 

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Understanding Multiple Wives

• By understanding the lawful grounds for divorce, we can understand if multiple wives are lawful. If a wife did not commit fornication, he cannot "put her away" and marry another. If a faithful wife falls into adultery, he may not live with her and abides alone for the sake of her one opportunity of repentance and cannot marry another unless she will not repent of her fornication. If a man desires to the office of a bishop, elder, or deacon, he must maintain one wife in order to hold such a position of ministry. Those are grounds for prohibiting multiple wives based on the law and testimonies. On the other hand, a man who isn't a bishop, elder or deacon, nor desiring to be in either of those offices, may remain unmarried or marry according to the portion Alahayim wills in his life. In general, a man who has not put his wife away unlawfully can marry another wife just as Abraham, (who was married to Sarah) received another wife uprightly in the sight of Alahayim. Jacob also received other wives from Alahayim having not put away his first wife to marry another for another example of multiples wive's being lawful when done uprightly. In the law, multiple wives aren't unlawful because there are laws to ensure a man deals justly in respect of his wives as well: 

Deu 21:15-17

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

• Also, the ordinances of the Apostles from the Lord helps ensure a man provides for his household and no one commits fornication:

1Ti 5:8  

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

1 Cor 7:2  

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

• A man's lawful wife is his "own" bone and flesh named after him, so he cannot commit fornication with her (so long as they are not having unlawful intercourse) even if he has more than one because they respectively are his bones and flesh not another man's wife or wives. A woman commits fornication by having someone that is not her own husband as a woman may only have one head. Each wife a man has is one flesh with him and he is their husband, but he would be in sin if he lay with them simultaneously or in the same day, which is prohibited by the law. Also, each wife is one flesh with her husband, so she cannot commit fornication with her "own" husband (so long as they do not commit unlawful intercourse) because she is his wife also, though he may have another wife as well just as Hagar did not commit fornication with Abraham because he was her husband too, not just Sarah's. Similarly, Jacob's wives didn't commit fornication with him to beget his 12 sons because he was their husband. The testimonies show a woman commits adultery by sleeping with a stranger that is not her husband:

Eze 16:32  

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

• On the other hand, Rachel and Leah were not in adultery when the two of them built up the house of Israel with their own husband, Jacob:

Rth 4:11  

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Ahayah make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel...

• Through the testimonies and the law, in marriages, a wife isn't in fornication if she isn't sleeping with a stranger that is not her husband and a husband isn't in fornication if he isn't sleeping with someone else's wife or a strange woman that is not his wife. [Pro 5:20; Pro 23:27] For an example, Abraham didn't sin by having multiple wives in righteousness.

Jubilees 23:10

10. For Abraham was perfect in all his deeds with Ahayah, and well pleasing in righteousness all the days of his life;

• Ahayah Alahayim ordains a wife or wives for each man as he also offered David more wives if he wanted them but it is a sin to take another man's wife by evidence of David sinning for taking another man's wife:

2Sa 12:8-9

And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of Ahayah, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

• The evil was accounted for killing Uriah and committing adultery by laying with another man's wife. It is also not upright to add wives unto one's self for lusts sake in abuse of power because it would cause one's heart to turn away from Alahayim as Solomon's did:

Deu 17:17  

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: 

• The upright man doesn't take a wife for lust but does it uprightly focusing on his labors in good works, study and his business affairs until Ahayah gives him a wife or wives according to His will:

Testament of Reuben 4:1

Pay no heed, therefore, my children, to the beauty of women, nor set your mind on their affairs; but walk in singleness of heart in the fear of the Lord, and expend labour on good works, and on study and on your flocks, until the Lord give you a wife, whom He will, that ye suffer not as I did.

Tob 8:7  

And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

Examples of Multiple Wives in the Law and Testimony:

• Abraham, the father of the covenants of promise.

Gen 16:3

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.​

• Jacob with 4 wives, of whom came the 12 tribes of Israel. According to the testimonies, the house of Israel, was built by his two wives. {Ruth 4:11; Gen 30:4,9}

Rth 4:11  

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Ahayah make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

Gen 30:4, 9   

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

• The Patriarchs had multiple wives:

  1. Simeon, 3 wives, Dinah, Bunah the Canaanite, & a Mesopotamian {​Jasher 45:2-3; Jubilees 34:21}

  2. Benjamin 2 wives, Mechalia & Aribath {Jasher 45:21-22}

  3. Manasseh, 2 wives, his wife and maid-wife, the Aramitess {1 Ch 7:14}​

• The house of Judah stems from multiple wives. ​

1. Hezron, son of Pharez, son of Judah, son of Jacob (multiple wives) {I Chron 2:9,21,24}

2. Jerahmeel, 1st son of Hezron, son of Pharez, son of Judah, had multiple wives {I Chron 2:25-26}

3. Caleb, 3rd son of Hezron, son of Pharez, son of Judah (4 wives) {1Ch 2:18-19,46-48}​​​​

New Testament Edification on Multiple Wives

• In the New Testament, multiple wives was still common by evidence of there needing to be a regulation for the Bishops, Elders, and Deacons to be the husbands of one wife because anyone who had more than one wife or no wife at all could not take on those specific ministry positions. This ordinance did not restrict Apostles, prophets, teachers, and disciples from not marrying at all or having multiple wives.

1Co 12:28  

And Alahayim hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

• The bishops, elders, and deacons are the positions of governments in the church (bishops and elders can hold the position of teachers too). They must be men that have one wife:

Titus 1:5

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

1Ti 3:1-2, 12  

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 12  

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• Those of other offices in the church do not have an ordinance to be the husband of one wife, so they may remain unmarried or marry a wife (or wives) accordign to their portion in this life as men are either given the gift of abiding unmarried {1 Co 7:1, 7}  or they're appointed wives from Alahayim {Tob 6:17} for companionship, {Gen 2:18}  an aid in the labors of this life, {Tob 8:6} bearing children, {Gen 1:22} and preserving of the woman {Tob 6:17} as the husband is the savior of the body. {Eph 5:23} 

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Understanding the Law

Genesis 2:23-24
[23]And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because

she was taken out of Man. [24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

• Yache said "what therefore Alahayim hath joined together, let no man put asunder "[Matt 19:6] so when married, a man's wife is now his own body (bone and flesh) by Alahayim joining them together. One can confirm a man's wife is actually his flesh by the fact that divorcing her is cutting her off from his flesh:

Sir 25:26  

If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.

•  A man's wife is referred to as "his nakedness" because she is one flesh with her husband. 

Lev 18:16  

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

• A man's wife, being his flesh, is brought under "his skirt" in marriage because she is her husband's body and he is her head (covering). Ruth asked Boaz to spread his skirt over her, which meant to take her as his wife, to confirm a woman being under a man's skirt means she is his wife, being his bone and flesh:

Ruth 3:9 

And he said, Who art thou? and she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

• If someone lies with another man's wife, the person is uncovering the skirt of her husband because she is his flesh. This is the case for each wife a man receives according to the testimonies, not just the first wife by evidence of Bilhah, Jacob's 3rd wife being under his skirt as well: 

Gen 30:4  

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Jubilees 33:8, 12

8. And Jacob was exceedingly wroth with Reuben because he had lain with Bilhah, because he had uncovered his father's skirt

12. And again, it is written a second time: "Cursed he be who lieth with the wife of his father, for he hath uncovered his father's shame"; and all the holy ones of Ahayah said "So be it; so be it."

• Through precepts, any wife a man has is his nakedness {Lev 18:8} and she is also his shame, {Jubilees 38:12} covered under his skirt. The law states, "a man shall leave his father and his mother" to cleave to his wife and Christ said "what Alahayim has joined let no man put asunder." In scripture, believing men who receive another wife also stay married to the first wife he already had like Jacob and Abraham to avoid sinning against their wives and Alahayim. If no fornication is committed and the process is done uprightly, there is no transgression for taking another wife Alahayim appoints unto a man while he is still married with his current wife (or wives) because it is not fornication or adultery by law.

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Understanding Spiritual Adultery

The Acts of Thomas  83

Abstain: First of all adultery, for this is the beginning of all evils,

Wisdom of Solomon 14:12, 27

For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life. 27 For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.

Exo 20:14  

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Definition:

H5003 

נאף

 Strong's: A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively to apostatize: 

BDB: 1a2) idolatrous worship (figuratively) 

Apostatize: renounce a religious or political belief or principle.

• Through precepts and understanding the Hebrew words, "adultery" is not only a physical act but a spiritual work that is manifested in idolatrous worship renouncing the religion and principles of Alahayim to serve idols in spiritual fornication. Precepts confirm idolatry is a work in the spirit of adultery against Alahayim:

Jeremiah 3:9 

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

• This shows adultery in spirit is falling into idolatry. Committing adultery in idolatry consists of: 1) pollutng one's flesh in unlawful intercourse, 2) polluting the mind and defiling one's heart by lusting after someone who isn't your spouse, as well as 3) operating in spiritual fornication by sinning in general doing things like unto the heathen (unbelievers) against the commands of Alahayim:

Matthew 5:27-28 

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Hermas Mandate 4 

1[29]:9 Not only," saith he, "is it adultery, if a man pollute his flesh, but whosoever doeth things like unto the heathen committeth adultery. 

• Adultery is a product of the spirit of Fornication as you have to be operating in fornication to commit adultery. 

Hermas Mandate 4

1[29]:4 I say to him, "Sir, permit me to ask thee a few more questions" "Say on," saith he. "Sir," say I, "if a man who has a wife that is faithful in the Lord detect her in adultery, doth the husband sin in living with her?"

1[29]:5 "So long as he is ignorant," saith he, "he sinneth not; but if the husband know of her sin, and the wife repent not, but continue in her fornication, and her husband live with her, he makes himself responsible for her sin and an accomplice in her adultery."​

1[29]:9 Not only," saith he, "is it adultery, if a man pollute his flesh, but whosoever doeth things like unto the heathen committeth adultery. 

• The precepts confirmed "polluting the flesh" in the spirit of Fornication through unlawful intercourse is adultery as well as doing things that are contrary to the ways of Alahayim following after the vain customs of the heathen are committing adultery in the sight of Alahayim. The angel speaking with Hermas said "doing things like unto the heathen is committing adultery because they worship and serve idols which is spiritual fornication causing them do all evil against the Law of Alahayim so it helps us understand adultery is also sinning or doing evil in general. The scriptures confirm idolatry is also a pollution of ourselves as well because of the transgressions they lead us to commit to help understand adultery in spirit is sinning against the law in general:

Ezk 37:23  

Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions 

Ezk 14:11  

That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; ​

• This helps see, idolatry, unclean meats, and transgressing in general defiles us and that’s how we get polluted and it’s reckoned as adultery with Alahayim. Yache was teaching us about coming out of the spirit of adultery as well not just the act of unlawful intercourse by example of showing its not just adultery in unlawful intercourse, but also our hearts intent toward a woman can get us into adultery for example

Matthew 5:27 

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Yache gave us understanding of the spirit of the law to keep us from the spirits that causes adultery all together understanding that adultery starts within our minds and hearts with any thought, inclination or desire thats drawing us away from the commandments of Alahayim in hatred.

Testament of Judah 17:2-3, 5-6

2 Beware, therefore, my children, of fornication, and the love of money, and hearken to Judah your father. 3 For these things withdraw you from the law of Alahayim, and blind the inclination of the soul, and teach arrogance, and suffer not a man to have compassion upon his neighbour.  5 And he hindereth the sacrifices of Alahayim; And he remembereth not the blessing of Alahayim, he hearkeneth not to a prophet when he speaketh, and resenteth the words of holiness. 6 For he is a slave to two contrary passions, and cannot obey Alahayim, because they have blinded his soul, And he walketh in the day as in the night

Testament of Gad 4:1

1 Beware, therefore, my children of hatred; for it worketh lawlessness even against the Lord Himself. 2 For it will not hear the words of His commandments concerning the loving of one’s neighbour, and it sinneth against Alahayim. 

Understanding Adultery

Pro 6:32-33  

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

• The spirit of Fornication leads a man in this lack of understanding to get a reproach unto himself:

Testament of Reuben 7:4

4 For in fornication there is neither understanding nor holiness, and all jealousy dwelleth in the lust thereof.

Testament of Rueben 4:6

6 For a pit unto the soul is the sin of fornication, separating it from Alahayim, and bringing it near to idols, because it deceiveth the mind and understanding, and leadeth young men into Hades before their time. 7 For many hath fornication destroyed; because, though a man be old or noble, or rich or poor, he bringeth reproach upon himself with the sons of men and derision with Beliar. 

• The ways a man who lacks understanding can commit adultery are as follows:

Mat 5:27-28 

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Mat 19:9  

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. ​

Lev 20:10  

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

A Man can commit Adultery by:

1. looking at a woman who is not his wife to lust after her {Matt 5:27-28}

2. Marrying another woman after divorcing his initial wife (who was not detected in fornication). {Matt 19:9}

3. After putting away his believing wife because wouldn't repent of her fornication, he doesn't abide alone for her one opportunity to repent and be reconciled to him, but instead, he marries another woman during that time of his initial wife's one opportunity for reconciliation. {Hermas Mandate 4}

4. Departing from an unbelieving wife who was pleased to dwell with him and didn't commit fornication, yet he marries another woman after departing. {I Co 7:10-16; Matt 19:9}

5. Intimate relations with anyone that is not your own wife is fornication. {I Co 7:2; 6:16-18}

6. Intimate relations with another man's wife. {Lev 18:19; 20:10}​

A Woman can commit Adultery by:

• A woman can commit adultery sleeping with a stranger that is not her husband.

Eze 16:32  

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! 

Sirach 23:22-23

[22] Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another. [23] For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.

 A Person can commit an Abomination by:

• (By the spirit of Fornication leading him, a man can commit an abomination by the following:

1. (for men and women) Having same kind relations.{Lev 18:22; 20:13, Rom 1:26-27}

2. Sleeping with a wife or any woman (or uncovering their nakedness) during their issue of blood (menstrual). {Lev 18:18; 20;18} 

3. Uncovering the nakedness of his near kin according to the law. {Lev 18:1} 

4. A man remarrying his ex wife who he put away for uncleanness (fornication) after she has married another man and then returned back unto him.{Duet 24:1-4}

Is Multiple Wives Adultery or an Abomination?

• ​It is not a work of the spirit of fornication in adultery or abomination for a man to be "lawfully and uprightly married" to more than one wife so long as she is not his near kin according to the law, or his wife's sister that he has taken during her lifetime, nor has he taken another wife after he put away one of his wives who hadn't been detected in fornication.

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Understanding Fornication

• The Spirit of Fornication is seated in the nature and senses from youth if one is drawn by the love of pleasure in evil to let her overcome one's mind:

Testament of Rueben 3:3; 2:9

First, the spirit of fornication is seated in the nature and in the senses; 2:9..with which through love of pleasure sins enter in. Wherefore it is..the first in that of youth, because it is filled with ignorance, and leadeth the youth as a blind man to a pit, and as a beast to a precipice.

Testament of Reuben 7:4, 1-3

4 For in fornication there is neither understanding nor holiness, and all jealousy dwelleth in the lust thereof. 1 Beware, therefore, of fornication; and if you wish to be pure in mind, guard your senses from every woman. 2 And command the women likewise not to associate with men, that they also may be pure in mind. 3 For constant meetings, even though the unholy deed be not wrought, are to them an irremediable disease, and to us a destruction of Beliar and an eternal reproach.

Testament of Judah 16:1

And now, I command you, my children, not to love money, nor to gaze upon the beauty of women; because for the sake of money and beauty I was led astray to Bathshua the Canaanite. 

Testament of Rueben 4:1 

1 Pay no heed, therefore, my children, to the beauty of women, nor set your mind on their affairs; but walk in singleness of heart in the fear of the Lord, and expend labour on good works, and on study and on your flocks, until the Lord give you a wife, whom He will, that ye suffer not as I did. 

• If one has pleasure in the works of the spirit of Fornication, being given to the love of pleasure being enamored with the beauty of others will be a struggle and would lead to love sick with desire in insatiability for someone who isn't your spouse:

Ecclesiasticus 9:8

Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

• This can be in thoughts, cares, and vexations for someone who isn't your spouse as Fornication is tryin to overwhelm the mind with Insatiability to fulfill the desire:

The Acts of Thomas 27
the service of the belly casts the soul into thoughts, cares and vexations, taking thought lest it come to be in want, and have need of those things that are far from it. 

• And if overtaken with pleasure, Fornication will continue working in the person until inflamed with their evil desires being enamored with others beauty unable to resist committing the act of polluting their flesh by sleeping with someone who isn't their lawful spouse feeling like they won't be judged for it blinded by the passions of Fornication and Lust blinding their inclination (with Hatred blinding the soul) from seeing things in truth. This can happen to a man or woman:

Ecclesiasticus 23:16-27
Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never
be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a
fire. 17 All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die. 18 A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins: 19 Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts. 20 He knew all things ere ever they were created; so also after they were perfected he looked upon them all. 21 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken. 22 Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another. 23 For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man. 24 She shall be brought out into the congregation, and inquisition shall be made of her children. 25 Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit. 26 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach shall not be blotted out. 27 And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

• Fornication causes whomever is under Her dominion to sin against their own body by the act of fornication (relations with someone who isn't your lawful spouse):

1 Corinthians 6:18
[18]Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication
sinneth against his own body.

• (As we know, a wife is the body of the man, so if a man commits fornication, he also sins against his wife (or wives), because she is his bones and flesh. On the other hand (so long as they aren't partaking in unlawful intercourse), a man cannot commit fornication by laying with his own wife, which is his flesh nor can a woman commit fornication by laying with her own husband, even in a multi-wife household as Leah and Rachel were not fornicators when they slept with their own husband, Jacob, at their respective times. 

1Co 7:2  

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.​

• The spirit of Fornication also leads a woman to plot against a man to deceive his mind by outward attractions or craft unto fornication and it causes a woman to lust after a man in her mind who is not her husband: 

Testament of Reuben 5:1-7

 1 For evil are women, my children; and since they have no power or strength over man, they use wiles by outward attractions, that they may draw him to themselves. 2 And whom they cannot bewitch by outward attractions, him they overcome by craft. 3 For moreover, concerning them, the angel of the Lord told me, and taught me, that women are overcome by the spirit of fornication more than men, and in their heart they plot against men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their minds, and by the glance of the eye instill the poison, and then through the accomplished act they take them captive. 4 For a woman cannot force a man openly, but by a harlot’s bearing she beguiles him.

Sir 26:9  

The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.

Testament of Reuben 6:1-4 

1 Flee, therefore, fornication, my children, and command your wives and your daughters, that they adorn not their heads and faces to deceive the mind: because every woman who useth these wiles hath been reserved for eternal punishment. 2 For thus they allured the Watchers who were before the flood; for as these continually beheld them, they lusted after them, and they conceived the act in their mind; 3 for they changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them when they were with their husbands. 4 And the women lusting in their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven.

• A woman can be in the spirit of Fornication for:

1. Plotting against someone in her heart (by means of outward attractions or craft{manipulation}) to turn them unto fornication, gain control of them, get supply out of them, or get an advantage over them.

2. Lusting after someone in her mind that is not her husband.​

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