{"id":56836,"date":"2023-12-27T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/live-without-harming\/publications\/rape\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:33:40","slug":"avoid-harm-question-the-passages-of-the-old-testament-that-authorize-the-rape-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-harm-question-the-passages-of-the-old-testament-that-authorize-the-rape-and-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56836\" class=\"elementor elementor-56836 elementor-17432\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-21ff100 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"21ff100\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-883bfad\" data-id=\"883bfad\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5bd911e elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5bd911e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! QUESTION THE PASSAGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT AUTHORIZE THE RAPE AND MURDER OF WOMEN<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a89a8a0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a89a8a0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8a7a7fa\" data-id=\"8a7a7fa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68cb009 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68cb009\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-PERMITEN-LA-VIOLACION-DE-MUJERES.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17434 size-full\" title=\"VERSES THAT ALLOW THE RAPE OF WOMEN\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-PERMITEN-LA-VIOLACION-DE-MUJERES.jpg\" alt=\"VERSES THAT ALLOW THE RAPE OF WOMEN\" width=\"270\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-PERMITEN-LA-VIOLACION-DE-MUJERES.jpg 270w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-PERMITEN-LA-VIOLACION-DE-MUJERES-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>Some Bible verses are devastating for women, allowing their rape and calling for their murder in certain cases even though they have done no harm.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>RAPE IN WARS<\/b><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomio%2021%3A11-14&amp;version=RVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search%3DDeuteronomio%252021%253A11-14%26version%3DRVA&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1703751830122000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0eixFjvIpiXysHqUuX0UdB\">Deuteronomy 21:11-14<\/a><\/span><\/span>: it treats women as a kind of object, so that in a war you can capture women and, if you like one of them, you simply keep her and rape her, and if you get tired of her, you get rid of her, as if she were a pair of shoes or a jacket (to put it in today\u2019s terms).<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Jueces+21%3A10-23&amp;version=RVR1960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search%3DJueces%2B21%253A10-23%26version%3DRVR1960&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1703768906691000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3LNhkaEgBGsnK_CNHm3GIp\">Judges 21:10<\/a>:<\/span><\/span> they exterminate all the men, married women, and children of Jabesh-gilead, but not the 400 unmarried women in that city, whom they later kidnap and rape.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e7789c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e7789c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>RAPE IN PEACETIME<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomio%2022%3A28-29&amp;version=RVR1960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search%3DDeuteronomio%252022%253A28-29%26version%3DRVR1960&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1703751830122000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Fpn4JUhJTgVqoTvPQCXXa\">Deuteronomy 22:28-28<\/a>:<\/span><\/span> it allows any man to rape a woman as long as she is unmarried and, if that rape is discovered, he pays a few coins to the victim\u2019s father and marries her.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=%C3%89xodo%2021%3A7-11&amp;version=RVC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search%3D%25C3%2589xodo%252021%253A7-11%26version%3DRVC&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1703751830122000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3n7TV8x_i-rY-kYu4glZ7x\">Exodus 21:7-11<\/a><\/span><\/span>: it objectifies women again, and therefore allows fathers to sell them as sex slaves to a man, who can try her out and, if he likes her, keep her; and if he does not like her, he can give her to his son, or return her, or get rid of her, as if she were a mobile phone bought on Amazon.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These kinds of passages are what made it common practice in Christian societies until the 20th century that when an army conquered a territory, soldiers had the right to rape its women as part of the spoils of war, all with the approval of the Church.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not exclusive to Christianity; it is also part of the Qur\u2019an, of what Muhammad did (considered the model to follow by many Muslims), and of almost all cultures that emerged from a certain point in the Neolithic, in which the abduction and rape of women was normal. In fact, this remained the case until it was prohibited by International Law only after World War II, specifically in the 1949 Geneva Conventions. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the Harmful Verses above should be understood in that historical context and, consequently, as written by men of their time and not as revelations of a benevolent God.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/understand-every-religious-precept-within-the-historical-context-in-which-it-was-created\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Let us understand each religious precept within its historical context<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/versiculos-daninos-de-la-biblia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARM?: Let us put the Bible\u2019s harmful verses into context<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-harm-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Not for women either<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/fight-for-womens-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Let us defend women\u2019s rights<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">MURDER<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-ORDENAN-EL-ASESINATO-DE-MUJERES-INOCENTES.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"VERSES THAT COMMAND THE MURDER OF INNOCENT WOMEN\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-ORDENAN-EL-ASESINATO-DE-MUJERES-INOCENTES.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-ORDENAN-EL-ASESINATO-DE-MUJERES-INOCENTES.jpg 543w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERSICULOS-QUE-ORDENAN-EL-ASESINATO-DE-MUJERES-INOCENTES-300x169.jpg 300w\" alt=\"VERSES THAT COMMAND THE MURDER OF INNOCENT WOMEN\" width=\"543\" height=\"306\"><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomio%2022%3A22-25&amp;version=RVR1960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search%3DDeuteronomio%252022%253A22-25%26version%3DRVR1960&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1703751830122000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Pwu6i0s-luZiXjJWc-Jdm\"><span style=\"text-decoration-line: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Deuteronomy 22: 22-25<\/span><\/span><\/a>: woe to a married woman who is raped in a town or city and does not scream, because as if the trauma of being raped were not enough, the author of this verse orders that she be cruelly killed by stoning. By contrast, it \u201cspares the life\u201d of the woman raped in the countryside who does not scream, because if it is an isolated place, screaming is useless if no one can hear you.  <\/p><p>But as unjust as the above is that it punishes the man not for the harm he causes the raped woman, but for the harm he has caused her husband, since she is merely another one of her husband\u2019s possessions. That is why rapists of married women are penalized, but not those of unmarried women. <\/p><p><span style=\"text-decoration-line: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomio%2022%3A13-21&amp;version=RVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search%3DDeuteronomio%252022%253A13-21%26version%3DRVA&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1703751830122000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1QysyQRzEcO1KIk95KcWbQ\">Deuteronomy 22:13\u201321<\/a><\/span><\/span>: When we buy an item on Amazon, we almost always want it to be brand new. If it is sold to us as new and turns out not to be, we simply return it, but we do not destroy it. However, the author of this verse shows far less consideration for a woman who has already been sexually \u201cused\u201d by another man, ordering that she be stoned to death if she does not successfully pass the virginity test.  <\/p><p>It is revealing that if the husband falsely accuses his wife of not having been a virgin when she married, he does not have to compensate her but rather her father, since she is a mere object that the father transfers to the husband, like a jar that, if cracked, requires some kind of repair.<\/p><p>If the woman does not reach marriage as a virgin, the punishment falls on her; but if it turns out she is a virgin and it is her husband who has falsely accused her of not being a virgin, the compensation for defamation goes to her father. That is the justice of whoever wrote this biblical precept. <\/p><p>Another verse that says something similar is Leviticus 21:9.<\/p><p>All these texts are what have led for centuries to degrading virginity tests for women and the punishment (sometimes causing them great suffering) of those who did not reach marriage as virgins.<\/p><p>If we want a Christianity free of cruelty, these texts should be understood in the context of the patriarchal societies that have existed in almost the entire world from a certain point in the Neolithic until the triumph of the liberal ideas of the Enlightenment. Therefore, for a benevolent reform of Christianity, it is advisable to regard these biblical precepts not as the word of God, but as rules preached by specific individuals who were educated in that deeply sexist mindset of their time, and for whom those rules were convenient. <\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/reformemos-la-parte-danina-de-cristianismo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read THE REVOLUTION OF LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Let us reform the harmful part of Christianity<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reform-the-harmful-part-of-religions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LET US LIVE WITHOUT HARM! Let us reform the harmful part of religions. <\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p>It would also be advisable to reject other deeply sexist verses. Read more at&#8230; <\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/versiculos-daninos-de-la-biblia\/sumision-mujeres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8230; LIVING WITHOUT HARM: <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Let us invalidate the Christian doctrine that enforces the subjugation of women<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Thank you for sharing to help end the scourge of 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class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-338579d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"338579d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong> Xavier Paya <\/strong><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b>Living Without Harm initiative<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" 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text-decoration: underline;\"> articles<\/span> from LET US NOT HARM!&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-485316d elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"485316d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>With the <b>Living Without Harm initiative<\/b>, we strive to prevent any kind of suffering or harm from being caused to you, your loved ones, and others.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! 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