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Originally Posted by thunaer  One problem with number #3.. In most society's that allow very young brides (example would be 10 years of age), it is usually the father giving over his daughter to a man to be his wife...... All done with Parental consent... In a depraved world as ours we need a firmer understanding of marriageable age like found in Ezekiel 16.
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Originally Posted by py3ak So we actually have 3 scriptural arguments.
1. The Biblical definition of the age for love, taken from God's example in Ezekiel 16.
2. The divine intention for marriage requiring more than sexual maturity in Genesis 2.
3. The parental responsibility to protect their daughters from Exodus 22 and Deuteronomy 22.
This may challenge our thinking as to what is a marriageable age, but we can also see that it is not God's will that little girls should be delivered over to a lifetime of a debilitating and humiliating relationship. | | Number 3 is grounded in the truth of numbers 1 an 2.
Add to that the biological/developmental considerations from general revelation which Jacob quoted from me above (which also matches the Scriptural data) and I think you have a clear cut case to answer your freind. 
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