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Not her life, her virginity. Why do you think it states after he fulfilled his vow "And she had never been intimate with a man". Maybe bec
ause it was verifying her lifelong chastity? And do you honestly think women were going to be celebrating an outlaw human sacrifice for 4 days every year? That would be an awesome party, don't you think? Do you think they celebrated with a BBQ? There is no way this would have been acceptable..the guy would have been thrown out of the community or killed himself. Give it a res

So you conveniently ignore the HE FULFILLED HIS VOW part, huh?

Listen, you can believe whatever the fuck you want but when the words on the page say one thing and you read it as another then you are simply being dense. Xtians frequently twist their balls in a knot in order to make excuses for your bible so you aren't doing anything different than most of them but I'm on to you, boy.

It's a load of shit.

Further researching this, based on a 12 century translation by hebrew scholars, judges 11:30-31 reads:

vowed a vow to God and he said, "If you will give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever will go forth from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammorites will be to God or I will bring it up as a burnt offering.

So the proposition is between human beings and animals..and since it was his daughter, he gave her over to lifelong service to the Lord, which again is why it says that after he fulfilled his vow "and she had never been intimate with a man."

And I'm not twisting anything. What's apparent is that you really want this text to be about a human sacrifice. The text clearly indicates to me that the sacrifice was that she was consigned to lifelong service and celebacy.