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|L1=Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives?
|L2=Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
|L3=Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives?: The case for children
|L4=Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
|L5=Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
|L6=Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
|L7=Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
|L8=Question: What is the current state of the evidence for proving or disproving that Joseph Smith had children by his plural wives?
|L9=Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?
|L10=Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives?
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# [[Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives?]]
# [[Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?]]
# [[Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children]]
# [[Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children]]
# [[Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?]]
# [[Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?]]
# [[Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?]]
# [[Question: What is the current state of the evidence for proving or disproving that Joseph Smith had children by his plural wives?]]
# [[Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?]]
# [[Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives?]]

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|link=Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?
|subject=Why would Joseph Smith be sealed to other men's wives?
|summary=Why would Joseph Smith be sealed to other men's wives? Some of these men were even active members of the Church. Were these marriages for time or only for eternity? Were these marriages consumated? Why did these women continue to live with the husbands after being sealed to Joseph Smith?
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|link=Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
|subject=Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
|summary=There is no good evidence for sexual relations in polyandrous sealings.
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[[fi:Mormonismi ja moniavioisuus/Onko Joseph Smithin moniavioliittojen lapsettomuus vastoin käskyä ”lisääntykää ja täyttäkää maa”?]]
[[es:El Mormonismo y la poligamia/Joseph Smith falta de niños a través de la poligamia contradice Doctrina y Convenios mandamiento de "multiplicarse y a henchir la tierra"]]
[[pt:Mormonismo e Poligamia/Joseph Smith falta de crianças através da poligamia contradiz Doutrina e Convênios mandamento de "multiplicar e encher a terra"]]