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Why is there nothing in the ten commandments about rape?

"Thou shall not rape" seems more important than remembering the Sabbath day (which is the second commandment).

Update:

Hey, I know that verse!

“If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are not discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.” Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (NIV)

Update 2:

And BTW, if a husband rapes his wife, how is it by any definition adultery?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    bible condones rape . as long as you pay her father.

  • 1 decade ago

    if he wrote all the commandments needed these days, you would need a wheelbarrow to haul the Bible around. However there are over 600 do nots throughout the Bible, it pretty much covers everything.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i think this falls under the adultery one.

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