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| − | ==Criticism==
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| − | Critics contend that although Emma Hale Smith was Joseph's first wife, that Joseph was sealed to other wives before being sealed to Emma. This is then postulated to be Joseph's justification for marrying plural wives without Emma's permission.
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| + | [[es:Pregunta: Puesto que las primeras esposas generalmente daban permiso para sellar a las esposas posteriores, ¿el sellado posterior de José a Emma significó que Emma ya no tenía el papel de "primera esposa"?]] |
| − | | + | [[pt:Pergunta: Desde que as primeiras esposas foram geralmente para conceder permissão para selos para as esposas subsequentes, Joseph mais tarde selar a Emma significa que Emma já não ocupava o papel de "primeira esposa"?]] |
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| − | ===The requirement of the husband to obtain the permission of the first wife before taking a second===
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| − | The revelation now contained in D&C 132 was given specifically for Emma's benefit. D&C 132 says specifically that if the wife is given the chance and properly taught the law, and then she refuses to accept it, that the husband no longer has to inform her. The requirement of the first wife to give permission for the husband to take another wife is referred to as the "law of Sarah." If the first wife rejects that law, then the husband is exempt.
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| − | {{s||DC|132|61}} and {{s||DC|132|65}}:
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| − | 61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified;...
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| − | 65 Therefore, it shall be lawful in me, if she receive not this law, for him to receive all things whatsoever I, the Lord his God, will give unto him, because she did not believe and administer unto him according to my word; and she then becomes the transgressor; and he is exempt from the law of Sarah, who administered unto Abraham according to the law when I commanded Abraham to take Hagar to wife.
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| − | It should be noted that the "law of Sarah" has nothing to do with being sealed—It only pertains to the requirement of the husband to obtain the permission of the first wife before he obtains another.
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| − | ===Was Emma the first wife to be sealed to Joseph Smith?===
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| − | However, a full appreciation of what being married for time and eternity awaited 3 other milestones for which Emma was honored to not only be first of Joseph's wives to experience, but the first woman of this dispensation to experience. {{ref|ehat1}}
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| − | * Married in an Anointed Quorum setting 5/28/43
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| − | * Initiated (endowed) 9/28/43
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| − | * Marriage unconditionally sealed 9/28/43 citation
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| − | From Devery S. Anderson, Gary James Bergera, Editors. ''Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed'', 1842-1846: A Documentary History
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| − | Two days after May 26, another ceremony was introduced to the Anointed Quorum: marriage sealings for eternity.40 On May 28, Joseph Smith and James Adams were sealed to their spouses, Emma Hale Smith and Harriet Denton Adams. This was an important moment, as Emma Smith, much like Hyrum, had opposed her husband's teachings on plural marriage; yet prior to her sealing, she would have had to reconcile herself to the doctrine, a requirement for all hoping to receive the ordinance.41
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| − | 40. Joseph Smith had actually begun marriage sealings for eternity in April 1841 when he married his first documented plural wife, Louisa Beaman. See Gary James Bergera, "The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35 (Fall 2002): 41-66.
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| − | 41. See Ehat, "Introduction of Temple Ordinances," 74-75.
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | #{{note|ehat1}}(Ehat's Thesis around footnote 182 and Table 2)
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