[108] In fact Moses gives direct permission to captives to wed. _Deuteronomy_ 21. vv. 11-13., “... and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, ... after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.” Comp. besides _Ruth_, Ch. 1. v. 4., Ch. 4. v. 13.—1 _Chronicles_, Ch. 2. v. 17.—1 _Kings_, Ch. 3. v. 1., Ch. 14. v. 21. Only after the exile was matrimonial connection with foreigners forbidden. _Ezra_, Ch. 9. v. 2., Ch. 10. v. 3. _Nehemiah_, Ch. 13. v. 23. _Josephus_, Antiq. Jud., XI. 8. 2., XII. 4. 6., XVIII. 9. 5.
[109] Vita Mosis, (Life of Moses), Bk. I., Works Vol. II. p. 130.
[110] Ch. 5. v. 5., “... but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.”.
[111] _J. Laurentius_, “De adulteriis et meretricibus Tractatus,” (Treatise on Adultery and Courtesans), in _Gronovius’_ Thesaurus Antiq. Graecor. Vol. VIII. pp. 1403-16.—_G. Franck de Franckenau_, “Disp. qua lupanaria sub verbo Hurenhäuser ex principiis quoque medicis improbantur,” (Disputation wherein Brothels (under the name “Hurenhäuser”—brothels) are condemned on medical as well as other grounds), Heidelberg 1674. 4to., in the author’s Satirae Medicae, (Medical Satires), pp. 528-549.—_J. A. Freudenberg_ (C. G. Flittner) “Ueber Staats- und Privatbordelle, Kuppelei und Concubinat, in moralisch-politischer Hinsicht, nebst einem Anhange über die Organisirung der Bordelle der alten und neuen Zeiten,” (On Public and Private Brothels, Procuration and Concubinage, in their moral and political Aspects; together with an Appendix on the Organization of Brothels in Ancient and Modern Times), Berlin 1796. 8vo. We have not been in a position to make use of this book.
[112] _Michaelis_, “Mosaisches Recht,” (Mosaic Law), Pt. V. p. 304. From 1 Kings Ch. 3. v. 16. it might indeed be gathered that such establishments were in existence; but strictly speaking the passage proves only that two women of this character dwelt in a particular house. Comp. _Philo_, De special. legg. (Works ed. Mangey, Vol. II. p. 308.). The _maidens’ chambers_ that according to 2 Kings, Ch. 17. v. 30. were set up in the precincts of the Temple at Jerusalem were cells with figures of Astarté, in which the Jewish maidens offered themselves to the goddess, and so in fact though not in name brothels.