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𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐱 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞

Mohamad Mostafa Nassar

Twitter@NassarMohamadMR

Rape is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable.  Yet few people know that the Bible often condones and even approves of rape.  How anyone can get their moral guidance from a book that allows rape escapes me.  Perhaps they have been lied to about the Bible and carefully detoured around all the nasty stuff in the Bible.

So grab your Bibles and follow along as I show you all the nasty rapes that your priests and preachers don’t want to tell you about.  Note that in many places in the Bible there are references to “taking a wife”.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that these were voluntary marriages.  This first quote clearly shows that murder and force were used to “take” these wives.

𝟏) 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐉𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐡-𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 (𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟏:𝟏𝟎-𝟐𝟒 𝐍𝐋𝐓)

So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-Gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children.  “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.”  Among the residents of Jabesh-Gilead, they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who was living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-Gilead who were spared were given to them as wives.  But there were not enough women for all of them.  The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. 

So the Israelite leaders asked, “How can we find wives for the few who remain since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead?  There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever.  But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God’s curse.”

Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem.  They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, “Go and hide in the vineyards. 

When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife!  And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, ‘Please be understanding. 

Let them have your daughters, for we didn’t find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-Gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.’”  So the men of Benjamin did as they were told. 

They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance.  Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them.  So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.

Obviously, these women were repeatedly raped.  These sick bastards killed and raped an entire town and then wanted more virgins, so they hid beside the road to kidnap and rape some more.  How can anyone see this as anything but evil?

𝟐) 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 (𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝟑𝟏:𝟕-𝟏𝟖 𝐍𝐋𝐓)

They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men.  All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle.  They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.  Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. 

They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived.  After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp.  But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle.  “Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded. 

“These are the very ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor.  They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD’s people.  Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man.  Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬

𝟑) 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐃𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝟐𝟎:𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟒)

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor.  But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.  When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder.  You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲?

𝟒) 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐞 (𝐃𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝟐𝟐:𝟐𝟖-𝟐𝟗 𝐍𝐀𝐁)

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.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫? 

𝟓) 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.

It is clear that God doesn’t give a damn about the rape victim.  He is only concerned about the violation of another mans “property”.

𝟔) 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!

𝟕)  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 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞.

𝟖)  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)

𝟗) 𝐒𝐞𝐱 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)

𝟏𝟎) 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)

Except for murder, slavery has got to be one of the most immoral things a person can do.  Yet slavery is rampant throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments.  The Bible clearly approves of slavery in many passages, and it goes so far as to tell how to obtain slaves, how hard you can beat them, and when you can have sex with the female slaves.

Many Jews and Christians will try to ignore the moral problems of slavery by saying that these slaves were actually servants or indentured servants.  Many translations of the Bible use the word “servant”, “bondservant”, or “manservant” instead of “slave” to make the Bible seem less immoral than it really is.  While many slaves may have worked as household servants, that doesn’t mean that they were not slaves who were bought, sold, and treated worse than livestock.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤.

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.  You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.  You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.  You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.

If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years.  Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.  If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year.  But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him.  If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master. 

But the slave may plainly declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children.  I would rather not go free.’  If he does this, his master must present him before God.  Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl.  After that, the slave will belong to his master forever. (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)

Notice how they can get a male Hebrew slave to become a permanent slave by keeping his wife and children hostage until he says he wants to become a permanent slave.  What kind of family values are these?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲.  𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞?

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)

So these are the Bible family values!  A man can buy as many sex slaves as he wants as long as he feeds them, clothes them, and has sex with them!

What does the Bible say about beating slaves?  It says you can beat both male and female slaves with a rod so hard that as long as they don’t die right away you are cleared of any wrongdoing

When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.  If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)

You would think that Jesus and the New Testament would have a different view of slavery, but slavery is still approved of in the New Testament, as the following passages show.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear.  Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)

Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed.  If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful.  You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts.  Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠.

The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it.  “But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly.  Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given.” (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)

𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞-𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧

Quran (4:24) (Marrying Slave Women)?

No authentic evidence that slave women used to walk around bare-breasted

Treatment of Slaves in Islam, Does Islam promote Slavery?

Biblical Law Permits Rape of Female Captives 

Islam Condemns Forceful Coitus

𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞

Islam and the Question of Slavery

Is Slavery Allowed in Islam?

How the Christians Opposed the First Commandment of the Bible —“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods besides Me.”

Rape & Sex Slaves in the Bible

The Terror in the Bible

Islam and the Question of Slavery

Islam and slavery

How the Christians Opposed the First Commandment of the Bible —“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods besides Me.”

What is the ruling on intimacy with slave women?

Allah knows Best