Even giving the father the opportunity to let a rapist marry his daughter is vile and disgusting.
What the father is doing is making sure his daughter has the material care she needs. For this reason alone, the rapist is spared.
That doesn't equate to the rapist being able to continue to have sex with or even live in the same house as the victim. Even today, you can be legally married to someone and not even stay in the same house for YEARS (i.e. people who are separated, en route to a divorce).
I've known women who've done that. They've lived separate lives, in separate homes, and have virtually NO contact with their husbands, except as necessary. That tends to happen when kids are involved, as women may stay legally married to their husbands, simply because the husband's job has better health insurance for the kids. Heck, I remember hearing on the news that most divorced women STILL KEEP their ex-husbands' last names, usually for professional purposes or ease of paperwork (i.e. Tina Turner, Cory Everson, etc.).
In short, the marriage has more to do with financial aspects, than romantic or sexual ones. This would also explain why, if the rape victim is already married/betrothed, the rapist GETS EXECUTED. She already has a man to take care of her.
That's irrelevant. Women have the right to refuse ANYTHING their husbands tell them to do. Contrary to the law or not.
They also have the right to suffer the consequences, when their disobedience leads to family deterioration. See below.
Absurdity. Putting a woman (and a man) to death for adultery is ignorant. People have the right to have sex with whomever they want, married or not. It's certainly unethical to go behind someone's back and cheat on them, but it shouldn't be illegal and DEFINITELY SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED BY DEATH.
It's hardly an absurdity, especially in a society where family structure was critical to survival. In addition, to adultery severing that, there's also the matter of things like disease, which could easily wipe out a people. Given that (not to mention other factors), it's easy to see why adultery would be a capital offense. And, of course, ONLY when the woman is a willing participant is she put to death (along with the guy involved).
Granted, it may not fit into your grandiose ideal of being able to screw around without conscience or consequence. But, that matters little in this particular instance.
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. Exodus 21:7
I believe I mentioned this on Stella’s thread about a month or two ago. First, this was done in order to help the daughter escape poverty.
Plus, it appears you missed the rest of the verses. If the master marries the woman (which must happen before any sex takes place), she then becomes a WIFE, hence the reason he still has to take care of her, even if he decides to leave her for another woman. That sounds like an old-school version of alimony (In fact, the son of the former or "hated" wife becomes the man's primary heir, even if he has a son with his new or "loved" wife).
If he arranges the marriage for her and his son, he must treat her as a DAUGHTER And, last time I checked, guys humping their daughters warranted the death penalty, as well.
And, as the last part of the verse indicates, if he doesn't take care of her, she can leave without having to compensate him for the money he spend for her service. And, that's domestic service: cooking, tilling soil, house care.....NOT SEX.
You're insane.
Only during Tuesdays (leg day)!!!