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To: Enosh
Maybe. In the original story the daughter's motives are not explained although they may be deduced.

This tale is still current throughout North Asia ~ it's an old favorite of the Shamen.

Interestingly enough, the oldest version is clearly feminist in structure; the newer version found in the Bible is patriarchal.

The moral of the story is that the parent(s) must see to their children's marriages or trouble will ensue.

56 posted on 07/10/2007 6:57:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
"... or trouble will ensue."

How appropriate in Lot's case, which yielded Moab and Edom. We know what a hoot they turned out to be.

82 posted on 07/11/2007 3:01:35 AM PDT by Enosh (†)
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