Sexual Violence

Judges 19:22-30: The story of a Levite and his concubine, where she is brutally raped and killed.

• "But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go."

2 Samuel 13:1-22: The rape of Tamar by her brother Amnon.

• "But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, 'Come to bed with me, my sister.'"

Deuteronomy 22:28-29: Law concerning rape and marriage.

"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."