In order to answer the questions of how Yaakov could marry two sisters, or his children marrying their twins (according to the midrash), Tosafot (found in Tosafot HaShalem Genesis 37:35) suggest that non-Jews (B'nei Noach) are only prohibited in the erva of adultery! And they base it off a statement of Rabbi Chanina in Snahedrin 57b that gentiles only have the prohibition of "בעולת בעל", implying anything else they do not have. Am I reading this wrong? True, they have difficulties with that answer afterward, but it is a suggestion.
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