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In the Bible, the covenant is usually between the bride's father and the groom (or groom's father on behalf of the groom, perhaps, in the case of Samson.)
And what bearing does that have outside theocratic Israel and its unique civil laws and/or customs upon new covenant believers today? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" />

In 1Cor 7:9 and 36, Paul is addressing individual men and women in regard to their entering into marriage, enjoining them to do so personally. If there was any place where O.T. Israelic marriage practices might be expected to be mentioned, it would have been there. Yet, we see nothing mentioned. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratchchin.gif" alt="" /> Nor is there any other place in the entire N.T. where the male head of a household is instructed to contract a marriage for his children.

In His grace,

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