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Originally Posted by Alan McDougall
Generally, an unmarried young woman would have been a virgin. If a girl was still living in her father's household, then she would have been unmarried.(How the hek would plundering murdering Israelites take the time to note if each woman they had captured was still living with their father at the time of the invasion? also many elderly woman could have been virgins?)
The reason the midianite women were killed is that they had been the ones who originally caused the Israelites to sin. ( Ahh!!! You just gave me a way out blame someone else for my sins, and then ask god if I can murder/kill them)
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The reason the virgins were kept alive- well, surely you can discern that simply by reading the text! They wouldn't want elderly virgins, even if they existed.
Indeed, the Israelites sinned, and they suffered their own punishment prior to this.
If God commands it, is it a sin?