Laws of Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not
engaged, he must pay
fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman
because he violated
her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
Death to the Rape Victim (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and
has relations with her,
you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them
to death: the girl
because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the
man because he
violated his neighbors wife.
David's Punishment - Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing, and God's "Forgiveness"
(2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own
house. I will take your
wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your
neighbor. He shall lie
with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but
I will bring it
about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan
answered David: "The
Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you
have utterly spurned
the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child
dies seven days later.]
This has got to be one of the sickest quotes of the Bible. God
himself brings the
completely innocent rape victims to the rapist. What kind of pathetic
loser would do something
so evil? And then he kills a child! This is sick, really sick!
Rape of Female Captives (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God,
delivers them into
your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the
captives and become
so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her
home to your house. But
before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and
lay aside her
captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full
month, you may have
relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your
wife. However, if later
on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she
wishes it; but you
shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under
compulsion."
Once again God approves of forcible rape.
Rape and the Spoils of War (Judges 5:30 NAB)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or
two for each man,
Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in
the spoil. (Judges
5:30 NAB)
*** Slaves (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at
the end of six years as
the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow
her to be bought back
again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the
one who broke the
contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to
marry his son, he may no
longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.
If he himself marries
her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or
fail to sleep with
her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as
a free woman without
making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
God Assists Rape and Plunder (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in
your midst. And I
will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall
be taken, houses
plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the
rest of the people
shall not be removed from the city. (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
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