JUDGES 21:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.”
Israel's elders provide the legal defense: the women's male relatives cannot recover them because Israel did not give them in marriage—they were seized. This legal argument attempts to preserve the fiction that Israel is not violating its oath. The argument is morally sophistic: Israel mandated the kidnappings through explicit instructions.
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