Rape, like murder, is one of those acts that really is an abomination in my mind. But in the Bible, rape, like murder, seems to be not all that abominable when the victims are plucked from enemy populations. Earlier we noted how the Almighty instructed Moses to “keep alive for yourselves” all the virginal Midian “women children.”39 Elsewhere God lays down a general mandate on how to handle “a beautiful woman” taken in war. Drag her away from her family and her people and make her your captive, strip her of her alien garments, shave her head, pare her nails, lock her in your house for a full month while she weeps and wails for her parents, then rape her into matrimonial submission. But if, after you have forcefully taken her as your wife, you find that you “have no delight in her,” you can “let her go whither she will” rather than sell her for money