While difficult to follow, the law

While difficult to follow, the law of Sarah appears to require the wife’s consent before a man could take additional wives. The text seems to state that a man is exempt from the law of Sarah (the necessity of obtaining the wife’s consent) if she refuses to consent.49 Yet early Mormon leaders interpreted the revelation as allowing the wife an opportunity to “state before the President the reasonswhy she withholds her consent.”50 If her reasons were “sufficient and justifi-able,” then the husband was forbidden to take another wife.51 If her reasons for withholding consent were deemed insufficient, then the husband was permitted (though not required) to enter into polygamy without his wife’s consent.52

While the loophole in the law of Sarah curtailed a wife’s ability to keep her husband monogamous by requiring “sufficient and justifiable reasons,” Mormon women could effectively exercise their power to refuse in other ways. In one case, a wife in St. George told her husband that “if he ever took another wife, when he brought her in the front door, [she] would go out the back.”53 In a similar instance, an elder told his wife that he had received a revelation to marry another woman, and that the wife must consent to the divine command. But the next morning, the wife announced that she had received a revelation of her own, instructing her to “shoot any woman who became his plural wife.”54 In both instances, the husband remained monogamous.

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Sementara sulit untuk diikuti, hukum Sarah tampaknya memerlukan izin istri sebelum seorang pria bisa mengambil istri tambahan. Teks tampaknya menyatakan bahwa manusia dibebaskan dari hukum Sarah (perlunya mendapatkan persetujuan istri) jika dia menolak untuk consent.49 pemimpin Mormon Namun awal diartikan wahyu sebagai memungkinkan istri kesempatan untuk "negara sebelum Presiden reasonswhy dia menahan persetujuannya. "50 Jika alasannya adalah" cukup dan justifi-mampu, "maka suami dilarang untuk mengambil wife.51 lain Jika alasan dia untuk persetujuan pemotongan dianggap cukup, maka suami diizinkan (meskipun tidak diperlukan) untuk masuk ke dalam poligami tanpa consent.52 istrinya Sementara celah dalam hukum Sarah dibatasi kemampuan seorang istri untuk menjaga suaminya monogami dengan meminta "alasan yang cukup dan dapat dibenarkan," wanita Mormon efektif bisa menggunakan kekuasaan mereka untuk menolak dengan cara lain . Dalam satu kasus, seorang istri di St. George mengatakan suaminya bahwa "jika ia pernah mengambil istri lain, ketika ia membawa dia di pintu depan, [dia] akan pergi keluar dari belakang." 53 Dalam contoh yang sama, seorang penatua kepada istrinya bahwa ia telah menerima wahyu untuk menikahi wanita lain, dan bahwa istri harus menyetujui perintah ilahi. Tapi keesokan harinya, istri mengumumkan bahwa ia telah menerima wahyu dari dirinya sendiri, menginstruksikan dia untuk "menembak setiap wanita yang menjadi istri plural nya." 54 Dalam kedua kasus, suami tetap monogami.