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Re: Why did Lot offer his daughters who ...??
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Originally Posted by DAII
The Judges 19 story is eerily similar to the Lot story ...
Each seems to hinge on the Middle Easter ethos of the treatment of strangers in the home ... in which somehow it is more honorable to give up one's own daughter or concubine rather than harm being done to a visiting stranger in one's home.
Hard from our 20th century Western view to fathom. |
I can't fathom it at all. 
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