Paragraph 24.4

Of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity forbidden in the Word;⁠1 Nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful by any Law of man or consent of Parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife.⁠2 The man may not marry any of his wives kindred, nearer in blood, then he may of his own; nor, the woman, of her husbands kindred, nearer in blood, then of her own.⁠3

The 1689 Baptist Confession

25.4

Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity, forbidden in the Word; nor can such incestuous Marriage ever be made lawful, by any Law of Man or Consent of Parties,⁠1 so as those Persons may live together as Man and Wife.⁠2