by jimwalton » Sat Jan 14, 2017 6:22 am
I assume you're referring to Numbers 31.9. The verse says nothing about sex with children. Or are you talking about v. 18: "...but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." There is nothing in the phrase "save (keep alive) for yourselves..." implying sexual pleasure. It simply means, "Don't kill them, but let them live." You don't understand that in Israelite culture, all herem was considered to be the possession of God. Deuteronomy 21.10-14 makes clear that it was against the law for a Gentile female POW to be used as a sex object. Rape is excluded, and so also pedophilia.
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