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Did God really command plural marriage?

The Short Answer

Yes — D&C 132 and the Gospel Topics Essay say it came as a commandment to Joseph Smith. It was a restoration of an Old Testament practice for a specific time and purpose. Then the Lord ended it through the prophet in 1890, and monogamy is the law of the Church now.

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