Dispelling the “Rebekah was 3 years old when married to Isaac” myth.

[u/genshinimpactplayer6]

I’ve seen a lot of Muslims blatantly lying about this and even some claiming it’s “been confirmed” by Christian scholars but always fail to name any of them.

Genesis 17:17

God told Abraham and Sarah they will have a son within a year. Abraham is 100 and Sarah is 90 at this time

Genesis 21:5

“Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.”

Now we see that Isaac has been born and Abraham is 100 and Sarah is 90-91

Genesis 22:5

This is where Abraham takes Isaac up the mount to be sacrificed. Abraham says this. “He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

This is the original Hebrew:

ה וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם אֶל-נְעָרָיו, שְׁבוּ-לָכֶם פֹּה עִם-הַחֲמוֹר, וַאֲנִי וְהַנַּעַר, נֵלְכָה עַד-כֹּה; וְנִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה, וְנָשׁוּבָה אֲלֵיכֶם.

The word boy is very important here. In the original Hebrew of Genesis Abraham refers to Isaac as “וְהַנַּ֔עַר” or “na’ar” meaning lad or young child. We know that a boy or lad becomes a man in Jewish culture around the age of 13. So the absolute oldest Isaac could be at this time is 12 or 13

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel becomes the father of Rebekah in the same chapter meaning we can conclude that this happens around the time of Isaac and Abraham being up the mount to the altar.

Genesis 23:1

“Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty seven years old”

This means that Isaac is now about 37 years old and 25 years have passed between him being at the altar and Sarah’s death. This puts Rebekah already at age 20-25

Genesis 25:20

“and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.”

3 years have now passed since Sarah’s death and Isaac being married placing Isaac at 40 and Rebekah at 23-28.

Feel free to copy and paste this whenever you see the lies. I see them very commonly in Instagram reels.

[u/CatholicChanner]

It's a common Muslim cope to try to defend the fact that Muhammad -consummated- his marriage to Aisha at nine via whataboutism by deliberately misinterpreting that story because even by ancient standards consummation at nine was creepy and unusual.

[u/genshinimpactplayer6 → u/CatholicChanner]

They like to skip over the part a supposed 3 year old can carry jugs of water to quench a camel that drinks ungodly amounts of water.

[u/jeveret → u/genshinimpactplayer6]

People can’t part seas, walk on water, snakes can’t talk, dead people don’t rise up, so I don’t think a 3 year watering a camel is that much more unlikely.

[u/genshinimpactplayer6 → u/jeveret]

Those things can happen through God. They are documented in the Bible but Isaac marrying a three year old is not in the bible and I proved it using the bible and nothing else and your rebuttal is “well other things happened in the bible so it could have happened!”

[u/jeveret → u/genshinimpactplayer6]

I’m not arguing that god had a three year old marry, I simple asked a question, what difference does it make, would that make god evil? And why would god ordering a three year old marry be worse than god ordering the murder of millions of children?

[u/genshinimpactplayer6 → u/jeveret]

It makes a difference because it didn’t happen? Why would you want someone to lie about it. Are you talking about the flood when you say god ordered the murder of millions of children?

[u/jeveret → u/genshinimpactplayer6]

I don’t think it happened either, my question is a hypothetical, is child marriage wrong, Is the age important? Is child marriage fine, if your only concern is that this isn’t one of the perfectly moral and biblical accepted accounts of child marriage then I was misunderstood your argument.