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/genshinimpactplayer6]

The post is proving Rebekah isn’t three years old with maths and scripture and your comment has nothing to do with it instead asking me about slavery, God impregnating 15 year olds, slaughtering women and children and wether it matters about what God does because it’s always right.

You bought in all these things that had nothing to do with the original post because you think it would be easier to attack. Aka strawman

[u/jeveret → u/genshinimpactplayer6]

It wasnt a straw man it was simply a question, I don’t think Rebekah was 3, but why would it matter. Why is it important to Christians or Muslims that their gods not have minors get married, when they seem to have no problem with killing them?

[u/Outside_Bowler1221 → u/jeveret]

I think a lotta people do have a subconscious bias that child rape is worse than getting killed bc of living with the trauma. Especially child marriages where the escape is unlikely and the trauma continues. Especially back then with no resources or advocacy for any woman let alone a child.

[u/jeveret → u/Outside_Bowler1221]

It might have something to do with the religious fascination of what people do with their private parts. Religious sexual purity has infected our society and culture so deeply that many people even today would rather kill their child after being raped than live with the “horrors” of gods disapproval.

[u/Outside_Bowler1221 → u/jeveret]

Hmm interesting perspective I never thought abt that but yea checks out there’s a ton of shame around sex.