An Historical Account of Ten Tribes Settled Beyond the River Sambatyon in the E
An Historical Account of Ten Tribes Settled Beyond the River Sambatyon in the E
Moses Edrehi
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, and T. Guedalia, Esq. I hope the Almighty will reward them for their good actions, and for pre- serving such a work of consequence and utility to the public. The marriages of that country are very religiously celebrated, and make a beautiful ceremony, which it is impossible to describe by writing or explaining, and you must understand that it is the most elegant and beautiful ceremony, and particularly in those mar- riages which are observed by the Jews; they keep strictly the holy and sacred... writ, and they marry at the age of eighteen years, according to the law, chapter 21, V. 13, Leviticus. " And he shall take a wife in her virginity, " which is (ramez) toi from the holy text ny n^Sinna nii^a Nnm, the word of Nim— it A BOOK OF MIRACLES. 153 amounts to 18. Also in ^I13^^ *p"lL)- they say there nt3*nS Dy\^y nr)^^:^* p, which means, that from eigh- teen years is the marriage. They never court or even see one another beforehand, till the day of their mar- riage. Among the Jews, and among the Mahometans, their ceremonies of marriage take place in the evening, and that is their custom in the whole of Africa and Turkey ; and that rule is taken from the holy text at the time of the patriarch Jacob ; for when he was married, it was evening.
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