It doesn't say to make amends, it just says that you have to. This is partially because it was also considered rape to have sex with a woman without her father's permission. It was a shotgun wedding provision.
And in every case(at least that I can recall) of it happening in the bible where it wasn't warfare related or a murder-rape, the girl's full blood brother (Simeon, Levi, Absalom) killed the rapist with nothing more than a quick talking to as punishment for the killing. In the case of murder-rapes the community killed the rapists, in two(arguably three) cases the rapists entire community was also genocided.
The brother thing is probably important as he is taking on the responsibility of caring for his sister into old age without the rapist to provide for her.(which the father would be too old to do).
I also do not recall any specific cases of warfare related rape, but it is made clear that there were rapes in several warfare related incidents, just no names.
Edit: forgot, there are specific cases of rapists raping a married woman, but those have a separate law and punishment if I recall. In the case I can think of (also Absalom, but he was the rapist that time instead of the brother, he died shortly after incidentally)
By the way, this is all from memory, so feel free to fact check, I left names to do so.
the girl's full blood brother (Simeon, Levi, Absalom)
But that is 2 Samuel 13. But later at the end of 2 Samuel 16 he almost certainly commits rapes of married women, and dies at the beginning 2 Samuel 17. that is what I was referring to here.
(also Absalom, but he was the rapist that time instead of the brother, he died shortly after incidentally)
It doesn't say to make amends, it just says that you have to. This is partially because it was also considered rape to have sex with a woman without her father's permission. It was a shotgun wedding provision.
And in every case(at least that I can recall) of it happening in the bible where it wasn't warfare related or a murder-rape, the girl's full blood brother (Simeon, Levi, Absalom) killed the rapist with nothing more than a quick talking to as punishment for the killing. In the case of murder-rapes the community killed the rapists, in two(arguably three) cases the rapists entire community was also genocided.
The brother thing is probably important as he is taking on the responsibility of caring for his sister into old age without the rapist to provide for her.(which the father would be too old to do).
I also do not recall any specific cases of warfare related rape, but it is made clear that there were rapes in several warfare related incidents, just no names.
Edit: forgot, there are specific cases of rapists raping a married woman, but those have a separate law and punishment if I recall. In the case I can think of (also Absalom, but he was the rapist that time instead of the brother, he died shortly after incidentally)
By the way, this is all from memory, so feel free to fact check, I left names to do so.
Also remember that marriage, before the 60s, meant you had to financially provide for your wife for the rest of your life and not marry anyone else.
Iirc Absalom killed his half-brother for raping his sister, not that he raped her himself.
Correct, as I said
But that is 2 Samuel 13. But later at the end of 2 Samuel 16 he almost certainly commits rapes of married women, and dies at the beginning 2 Samuel 17. that is what I was referring to here.