[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

All true of course. We know next to nothing about Joseph. Little is said of him in the Bible just as little is said of Jesus’s childhood and early youth. Much more is known of contemporary Jewish society and family structure at that time. People were expected to be married and produce children. That was the norm, that was what expected. Priests in the Bible too, were married men with families. That was expected, that was the norm. You were considered an outcast if you were single, unless you had a contagious disease, such as leprosy and were excluded from the general population.

[ravenwolf]

That was expected, that was the norm.

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That is true, bishops were to be the husband of one wife a man who could rule his house well.

1 tim 3
4 He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way;