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Marriage: Contracted in Patriarchal Age with Near Relations

Source: TTT

Genesis 20:12 Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
Genesis 24:24 She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
Genesis 28:2 “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.