Talk:Jacob 1:11-15

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On this question:

Was the sin of the Nephites that they had many wives and concubines, or just that they wanted many wives and concubines?

As I read verse 15 it says that they didn't just have this desire, they also indulged somewhat in it. --Matthew Faulconer 08:46, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

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Regarding David and D&C 132:38, I'd love hear more thoughts on this, as it's a question I've had for a long time. It seems one way to reconcile the apparent contradiction between these verses is to argue that v. 15 here is not directly equating wicked practices with David and Solomon's desiring many wives and concubines (only that it would be a wicked practice for the Nephites to do so). Another (probably more promising) way is to put to reconcile this is to put the emphasis on desiring: it wasn't that that they had the many wives and concubines that God had given them that was wrong, but that they desired others that God had not given them. --RobertC 12:04, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)