What I really want to talk about, though, today is probably something, it's not completely explicit in the text,

but it's all in the context of not only this part of Genesis, but everywhere that we're going to go for many, many books of the Old Testament.

And that's polygamy in the Old Testament and how it functions.

We think about Old Testament polygamy, and we think about Latter-day St. Polygamy of 150 years ago, right?

Right.

It is so understandable to me that a lot more feelings come up about the more recent polygamy.

And yet, there's some real similarities between the two systems.

Oh, there's some big similar.

And so that is actually very similar to the way that ceilings work.

So when a woman is married and sealed to a man and say he dies, and so she marries somebody else, and they are not sealed because she doesn't cancel her ceiling to her first husband.

Any children that she has with her new husband actually in the next life are sealed to her deceased husband.

They're born under whatever ceiling is current for her.

Yes.

Children follow the mother's ceiling.

So it's kind of the same principle.

That's why you see some of the things with like Sylvia Sessions where she told her daughter that she was Joseph's daughter.

She wasn't his biological daughter.

She was technically Joseph's daughter because she was born under the ceiling.

Isn't that interesting?

Do you think that it is a little different just because, you know, our society, our Western society is very, very different from the ancient Near East.

Again, with our more recent plural marriages, it was always a choice.

Yeah.

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