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What ages would men and women be married in first century
Palestine? Why?

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Jewish girls were able to be promised in marriage at the age of twelve. A girl's father had the right to sell her as a slave. At twelve and a half, the young girl could be married. Women could not show their face in public, and were not allowed to speak to men.

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