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To: buffaloguy

I couldnt find any doing a google search... only thing close is this... its pretty sickening really. Just like the muzzie scum would do...

Deuteronomy 22:20-1 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house.


15 posted on 02/10/2017 6:20:47 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: wyowolf

It is always worthwhile to read the sections before and after a quote in the Bible.

Deuteronomy 22:20 is a part of a long list of laws concerning marriage and there are some very severe punishments for violating those rules. Our current society brushes many of these violations off.

Why would the punishments be so severe? Because 4,000 years ago there were no antibiotics and no birth control. If a woman was not a virgin one would not know if she had std or not which could leave the sterile or which be passed on to the husband. Not good.
I suspect that stds were a real problem at that time.

There is also the question concerning whether that child that they just had was actually his or not. Inheritance laws were pretty tough in those days and a woman who was promiscuous was not wanted as the potential complications would be difficult.

I’m 66 and my dating life started before the pill and all guys were scared to death of getting a girl pregnant and being married at 17.

We are looking at ancient social laws with modern sensibilities and we frequently draw the wrong conclusions.


19 posted on 02/10/2017 7:40:33 AM PST by buffaloguy
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