Yahweh allows pre pubescent girls to be taken as captives!

Yahweh commands pre pubescent girls to be taken!! ( a deep analysis on the text)

Absolutely no doubt Yahweh ordered infants to be taken as captives for sexual reasons this disturbing passage has been presented many times, but this paper will take it to a next Level by proving that Yahweh ordered little infants, children's to be taken by grown men's!!!! First let's read the passage get an account or jist of what this is all about:

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You are to kill every male child and every woman who has had sexual relations with a man. but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

(Numbers 31:17-18)

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Now the above violent and disturbing passage which just by reading will sicken and sane sober person, actually has much more then what eyes can see, if one digs deep scrutinises the Hebrew texts he will find something even more shocking.. You may wonder what's more shocking then the entire passage.. Well let's focus on a specific text used... The Hebrew word (TAPH) that's found in verse 18 which says "but save for yourselves every (GIRL) the word for girl is (TAPH) in Hebrew.. But is GIRL the actual word in Hebrew let's examine it deeper :

LET FIND OUT FROM STRONG'S  CONCORDANCE 

Strong's Concordance

taph: children

Original Word: טָף

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Transliteration: taph

Phonetic Spelling: (taf)

Short Definition: ones

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin

from taphaph

Definition

children

children (11), girls* (1), infants (1), little children (2), little ones (27).

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We can also cross reference from other biblical verses and verify that TAPH means children's / infants :

( Genesis 34:29, Genesis 43:8, Genesis 45:19, Genesis 46:5, Genesis 47:12, Exodus 10:10, Exodus 10:24, Exodus 12:37, Numbers 14:3, Numbers 14:31, Numbers 16:27, Numbers 31:9, Numbers 32:16, Numbers 32:17, Numbers 32:24, Deuteronomy 1:39, Deuteronomy 2:34, Deuteronomy 3:6, Deuteronomy 3:19, Joshua 8:35, Joshua 18:21, Judges 21:10, 2 Samuels 15:22, 2 Chronicles 20:13, 2 Chronicles 31:18, Ezra 8:21, Esther 3:13, Esther 8:11, Jeremiah 40:7, Jeremiah 41:16, Jeremiah 43:6, Ezekiel 9:6 etc.....

Now we have to from the Hebrew text that it's clear Yahweh ordered Moses to kill everyone but keep little infant girls for themselves, I will now produce to you commentary from biblical scholars on this sickening disturbing verse and Jewish Talmudic commentary  alongside it..

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

“v. 18. But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves, as slaves or handmaids, FOR MARRIAGE WITH SUCH WAS NOT FORBIDDEN. The great God is terrible in His judgments, a fact which should teach us to fear His wrath and not act contrary to His commandments.” 

Even the Bible commentator Paul E. Kretzmann, makes it clear, commenting on the verse that marriage with the pre-pubescent females ‘was not forbidden’.

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Dr Judith E. McKinlay also mentions that the Bible ‘seems’ at times to turn a blind eye and allow ‘free romance’ commenting on Numbers 31:18.

“Where the texts have a concern for the circumcised status, this clearly does not apply to women! And where there is a concern for lineage the importance of patrilineal descent meant a lesser concern regarding the potential mothers. So, in the war against Midian, Moses says to the people in Num 31.18 that of the captured Midian women, ‘all the young women who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves’. AT TIMES IT SEEMS AS IF THE BIBLE WANTS TO TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE MATTER ALTOGETHER AND ALLOW FREE ROMANCE A FREE HAND.”

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NIV: The New American Commentary – An Exegetical And Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture:

… Only the young girls would be allowed to live so that they may be taken as wives or slaves by Israelite men, according to the principles of holy war (Deut 20:13-14; 21:10-14). By this they could be brought under the umbrella of the covenant community of faith. 

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Talmudic commentary 

In the following, the Talmud Sages reason that, since Phinehas was among the Hebrews who were permitted a child concubine and Phinehas was a priest, Numbers 31:17-18 is Divine sanction for the marriage of priests with girls under the age of three — babies. The rabbis describe the babies as proselytes. The American Heritage Dictionary defines proselyte as "a Gentile converted to Judaism." In the following passage, a bondman is a male slave, and a bondwoman a female slave.

GEMARA. … It was taught: R. Simeon b. Yohai stated: A proselyte who is under the age of three years and one day is permitted to marry a priest, (2) for it is said, But all the women children that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves, (3) and Phinehas (4) surely was with them. And the Rabbis? (5) — [These were kept alive] as bondmen and bondwomen. (6) If so, (7)  a proselyte whose age is three years and one day (8) should also be permitted! — [The prohibition is to be explained] in accordance with R. Huna. For R. Huna pointed out a contradiction: It is written, Kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him, (9) but if she hath not known, save her alive; from this it may be inferred that children are to be kept alive whether they have known or have not known [a man]; and, on the other hand, it is also written, But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves, (3) but do not spare them if they have known. Consequently (10) it must be said that Scripture speaks of one who is fit (11) for cohabitation. (12)

— Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yebamoth 60b Soncino 1961 Edition, page 402

The doctrine that Jewish men may have sexual intercourse with non-Jewish children ("proselytes") under the age of three is expanded in the following passage; "Rabbi" is Judah the Prince.

GEMARA. … R. Jacob b. Idi stated in the name of R. Joshua b. Levi: The halachah is in agreement with R. Simeon b. Yohai. (13) Said R. Zera to R. Jacob b. Idi: Did you hear this (13) explicitly or did you learn it by a deduction? What [could be the] deduction? — As R. Joshua b. Levi related: There was a certain town in the Land of Israel the legitimacy of whose inhabitants was disputed, and Rabbi sent R. Romanos who conducted an enquiry and found in it the daughter of a proselyte who was under the age of three years and one day, (14) and Rabbi declared her eligible to live with a priest. (15) — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yebamoth 60b

Soncino 1961 Edition, page 403

The translator, Rev. Dr. Israel W. Slotki, amplifies the text with footnotes

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There you have it Yahweh allowed child pre pubescent marriage, through killing an entire nation!!!! 

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3 year old “infant” girls for taken as brides

But all the INFANT GIRLS (Taph) who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves to Devour (Lachem). (Numbers 31:18)

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Commentary by Rabbi Eliezer ben Ya’akov confirms Numbers 31:18 is referring to 3 year old “infant” girls’

§ The mishna states that Rabbi Eliezer ben Ya’akov says that the daughter of a convert and a Jewish woman is fit to marry into the priesthood. It is taught in a baraita: Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai says: A female who converts at less than three years and one dayold is fit to marry into the priesthood, as it is stated after the war with Midian: “But all the female children who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves”(Numbers 31:18), i.e., you may marry them. (Talmud Kiddushin 78a:19)

Chizkuni ben Manoach Commentary

'וכל הטף בנשים אשר לא ידעו איש וגו, “but any children among the women who have not had carnal knowledge, etc.” you shall let live for your benefit. This formulation prompted Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai to state that a female convert who has not attained the age of three years and a day, is fit to marry a priest. [as she could not have been contaminated through carnal intercourse) 

Ramban commentary on taph

 

That they may hear, and that they may learn: [refers to] the men and the women, since [the women] also hear and learn to fear God. And their children, who have not known, will hear, and learn (verse 13): Those are the taf ("the little ones" referred to in verse 12), as they will hear and inquire and the fathers will [help them understand] and teach them. Since these taf are not suckling babes, but [rather] they are those of few years, that are close to being [old enough to be] educated. And this is the explanation of "and learn to fear" (verse 13) - that it is in the future, since above [concerning the men and the women], it states, "and they will learn and fear" [immediately as they learn]. But our rabbis said (Chagigah 3), "'the men' to learn 'and the women' to listen 'and the taf,' why should he come? To give reward to those that bring them."  (Ramban on Deuteronomy Chapter 31:12)

The horror of Numbers 31:17-18. three year old sex slaves (with benefits) Chizkuni commentary composed in mid-13th century (1220 - c.1260 CE) Question is, did Jesus of the bible speak up against such horrific rulings on infants. Note the Hebrew word taph is used