Lessons From The Giants In Deuteronomy 2

In Deuteronomy 2 Moses talks about Isreal’s relatives in Canaan (Edom, Moab, Ammon) and the giants they faced to get their land. In this chapter, Moses reveals two things. First, they have no reason to fear the giants dwelling among the Canaanites because these are only a remnant of the Rephaites (giants), the rest of them previously defeated by Israel’s relatives. Second that the promised land is a specific section of geography that God will give to the Israelites, and they should attempt to take land from their relatives unless God hands it over because that is their allotment.

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Marry the Rapist Deut 22:28-29

Does the bible say a woman has to marry her rapist in Deut 22:28-29? Most translations don’t use that word because the Hebrew text doesn’t use that word in these specific verses. That verse actually describes what happens in the case of fornication when a woman is neither married nor engaged and just has sex. If they are caught, no one is stoned to death, and the man is required to pay her dowry and marry her, but only with her father’s permission.

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