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Old 03-02-2009, 08:02 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
That said, the polygamy in the Old Testament is essentially the same as original Mormon polygamy, so it was messed up in a fairly normal way in that respect.
And it's still widely practiced throughout the world:
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, of the 1231 societies noted, 186 were monogamous. 453 had occasional polygyny, 588 had more frequent polygyny, and 4 had polyandry.
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