Officially the Mormon Church is against polygamy, and few practice it today. The fringe groups that do practice it tend to marry off girls at a very young age, about 13 or 14, to elder (religious leaders) within the group who are decades older. Young men are often kicked out of the group so they won’t compete with the elders for wives. For these and other reasons, I really doubt polygamy, as practiced today by the Mormon fring groups, is anything like the polygamy practice in the Torah.
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