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III. Nor a man and his son two sisters, or two daughters of a paternal
uncle.
IV. Nor two brothers a woman and her daughter.
V. Also a man shall not take a woman, and give his daughter to her
son.
f. 14 a VI. Nor a man a woman, and give his daughter to her brother.
VII. Nor a man a woman, and give his daughter to her father.
VIII. Nor shall a man take the sister of his wife nor the daughter of
his sister.
IX. Nor a man the wife of the brother of his wife.
X. Nor the wife of a brother or the wife of his son.
XI. Nor (is) a man bound to the wife of his paternal uncle.
XII. Nor is the wife of a mother's brother lawful.
XIII. Nor let a man take the daughter of the brother of his wife.
XIV. Nor let a man take his godmother from among men for three
generations.
XV. Nor the brothers of that one for two generations.
XVI. Nor let a man take a (fellow-) sponsor of baptism, nor a man
who is related to him in race for five generations.
XVII. Nor let an Elder baptize his son according to the flesh, unless
a reason of death should happen to that child and there be no stranger
Elder to baptize him.
XVIII. Nor let a man confirm the espousals of a woman except before
the Elders and Deacons, and before free persons who are worthy to be
believed.
XIX. And he who espouses a spouse let him not do violence to
the girl, and let him not see her face until he has fulfilled to her all
(things) that are obligatory to the order of Christians, and let the girl
enter his house.
XX. It is not lawful for a Christian to give a woman to any kind of
marriage with a Nestorian or with a people out of our fold, nor to a heretic,
nor to those who are strange to us in faith.
These things we have determined thus and appointed to you as to sons
and obedient people ; as therefore ye keep them and walk in them, attend
also to the Canons spoken by the Spirit ; by them ye shall be kept, in this
world ye shall be blest, and in that which is to come ye shall be saved to
the kingdom of our Lord and ye shall have rest, pleasing Him by good
works.