Where is the sin against "rape" in the bible?

Question

Moses had laws against rape? Where are they? ...
Oh, you mean the part where he chastised his soldiers for leaving the women and children to live, and told them to go back and slaughter them all, and "take the virgin girls for yourselves",

is that what you mean???

Deutch: do you have a different version of deuternonomy than disturbb?

Answer 1

There isn't one.

Answer 2

There really isn't. Rape wasn't really considered a crime if it was committed against an unmarried woman, cuz then you simply became the husband. If you had sex, willing or otherwise with a married woman, you sinned against the family. This doesn't mean that rape is OK. Remember, Jesus really said nothing morally bad about the prostitutes he hung out with either. This was a very, very different society that had very different social norms and beliefs. But for over the past 1500 years Christianity has held on to the Religious Tradition that rape is a grave sin. And if you know anything about Christian Theology, you know that Tradition (id teachings or practices that have been around a long time) are almost as important as Biblical Verification. This is a case where Tradition is obviously more important. Don't go looking in Scripture for every little issue. The Bible doesn't, not shouldn't, cover every issue for the people who were contemporary to its writing or to us. Where is the sin against abortion????? Abortions were happening, even common among pagan groups, especially the pagan groups Jesus would have encountered as a child and young man in Galilee, yet he says nothing about it! He does preach extreme care and respect for God's earth and sinning against OTHERS, not against God so much, but doing wrong to others, he's really big on that! Funny how most Christians today ignore that part of his message.

Answer 3

The book of Deutoronomy has rules about how to deal with rapists. WIthout quoting the whole thing, here's the rundown:

If a man sleeps with a married woman, both of them must die (regardless of if it was rape or not).

If a man rapes a virgin who's father has promised her to another man, the man should be killed. If the rape occured in a rural setting, nothing should be done to the woman. If it occured in an urban setting, she should be killed also, because she didn't scream loud enough for someone to come and help her.

If a man rapes virgin who is not promised, he must pay her father fifty shekels of silver (1.25 pounds; modern value about $250), then marry her. After they are married, he can never divorce her, as long as they live.

Take that for what it's worth.

Answer 4

In Deuteronomy 22:25-27, there is actual talk of punishment in regards to rape. It is not called rape though. "But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.But you shall do nothing to the young woman;there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter." In general the bible teaches to love and honor one another. Rape is no such act, and it is therefore a sin.
In Deut. 22:27-30 it speaks of a the punishment for a rapist when the girl he raped is not betrothed (promised to another, engaged to a man). He will have to pay a large amount of money to the young woman's father and marry the girl. He is not allowed to divorce her in all his life.
The punishment may not seem appropriate in today's times, but when this happened, it was very tough on the offender, especially the death sentence when a girl is already engaged.

Answer 5

How about the one about stealing? Since rape steals a woman's dignity, her sense of safety, often her virginity and often her sense of self, I think that would apply. Or maybe the one about treating others as you want to be treated?
Rape is a crime of violence, a crime of cowardice, and a crime of theft. Just because the bible does not mention it specifically doesn't make it less heinous. I have heard many Christians allege (may they rot) that rape is "the woman's fault." That makes me want to grab a baseball bat and start swinging. Islam also says it's OK to put rape victims to death. And Muslims have the nerve to question why we think they have a psychotic religion.

Answer 6

In old bible said there is sin to sex with a marriaged woman. In old bible; woman is kind of belonging of man. Kill, altar, conquer are the old bararien action. Woman had never be a leader at that moment. So bible actually is written by man called on behalf of god. If god is power of everything, will he still want people to kill animal to him in alter? He need not to eat and use any thing. Should we still contribute something to him? Bible is written by hollyman at that moment to teach people have a better life droubtlessly.

Answer 7

There are lots of scriptures about fornication in the Bible.

Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints

2 Chron 21:11
Ezekiel 16:26
Ezekiel 16:29
Matt 5:32
Matt 15:19
Mark 7:21
John 8:41

Gen 34: 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

Answer 8

Rape is a sin. Treating others the way you want to be treated is not raping them. That is what makes it a sin as we are asked to love one another not hurt one another.

You can sin against God, You can sin against your fellow man but sinning against rape. An evil act? How do you sin against any act? That is a really hard question. I think you can only sin against proper nouns and not verbs.

Answer 9

it says that if a man rape a virgin then he is to pay her father, and then the girl is to marry him and not leave him.
Deuteronomy 22:27-28

peope here are in a state of denial and going around the truth to your statement and telling you what they think is right or wrong

Answer 10

Deuteronomy 22 (New International Version):
Marriage Violations
13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," 15 then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. 16 The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver [b] and give them to the girl's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, 21 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. You must purge the evil from among you.

22 If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, 27 for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. [c] He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30 A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.

Answer 11

Moses had laws against rape