Child Marriage in Christianity

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Related Argument

If you believe Jesus was God, and since it’s a basic historical fact of 2nd Temple period of late antiquity, why did he (Jesus) remain silent about “significant [numbers of]” child marriage.

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A Detailed Historical Examination Of Numbers 31:18

1.The Hebrew word “taph” (children)

2. The Hebrew word “lachem” (“for yourselves”)

3. The Ancient Interpretation of Numbers 31:18

4. Contemporary Interpretation of Numbers 31:18

5. “Forced” – Deuteronomy 21:14

6. Conclusion.

7. The Hebrew word “taph” (children)
   Although many of the translations for Numbers 31:18 render the females as being “women”, a closer look at the verse, it refers to “children”, prepubescent girls who have not hit puberty. The Hebrew word ‘taf’ (taph) refers to children only:

The Hebrew word “taf (taph) according to Lexicons.

—An English and Hebrew Lexicon – Professor Selig Newman:

—A complete Hebrew-English pocket-dictionary to the Old Testament (1905) – Karl Feyerabend:

—A Compendious Hebrew-Lexicon – Samuel Pike:👇

2.The Hebrew word “lachem” (“for yourselves”).

The next line we need to look at, what does “keep alive for yourselves” mean?

The words “for yourselves” in Hebrew is “lachem” (lakham):

Although the word is deliberately left blank on Christian websites which explain the Bible word for word – when we consult Hebrew-English Lexicons, they give us the following meaning(s) for “lachem” (lakham).

Lachem here is a proposition. When we read from the above Lexicons and a commentary, the Hebrew ‘lacham (Lechem) means to “engage”, “eat” or “devour”, this definitely is sexual in the context for Numbers 31:18.

The Ancient Interpretation of Numbers 31:18

Shaye J. D. Cohen who is the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University, explains that ” for yourselves” is clear that that Moses’s soldiers could use the females “sexually”:

The historian Flavius Josephus (37 – 100 AD) also confirms the above account:

(The Works of Flavius Josephus: Comprising The Antiquities Of the Jews; A History Of The Jewish Wars; And Life Of Flavius Josephus, Written by himself).

4.Contemporary Interpretation of Numbers 31:18

The contemporary (few hundred years to date) commentaries also highlighted that the females were used as slaves or Moses’s men married the prepubescent girls

A Commentary Upon The Fourth Book Of Moses, Called: Numbers – Symon Lord Bishop Of Ely [Simon Patrick]:

A Bible Commentary For English Readers – Charles John Ellicott:

Rev. Dr. Mary Donovan Turner:

A Commentary On The Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal And Homiletical – John Peter Lange:

Joseph Benson’s Commentary of the Old and New Testaments:

Study Bible: English Standard Version (ESV):

Professor of the Old Testament, Carolyn J. Sharp:

Professors Ronald M. Holmes, and Stephen T. Holmes:

The popular commentary by Pa E. kretzmann.

“Forced”

– Deuteronomy 21:14

If you read closely, many of the exegesis refer to Deuteronomy 21:10-14 as evidence that they were married off (child brides). The verse reads:

Conclusion

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