3415.- Female Children by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

3415.— Female Children

By Editor

Please explain Num. 31:18. What was done with those female children? Were they kept for slaves or for marriage? Some skeptical persons bring up some texts of the Bible which I can not always explain. G.

If we knew the customs of those days we would know that imperfect as the Israelites were, they were far ahead of surrounding nations, so that slaves in Israel were, many times, better off than free men and women in other lands. They were treated much more humanely. These female children may have been kept part for slaves and part for wives. See Deut. 21:10-14 as to how Israelites should deal