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The Bible lets an Israelite soldier who sees a beautiful woman among the captives take her home as his wife. She shaves her head and mourns her parents for a month. Then "thou shalt go in unto her". She is never asked. If he no longer wants her, he must let her go, "because thou hast humbled her". In Numbers, Moses orders every boy and every woman who had known a man to be killed. He tells the soldiers to keep the girls who had not "for yourselves". In Judges, the men of Benjamin are told to seize girls dancing at Shiloh as wives. Islam found slavery everywhere and bound it with rules. Today Muslim scholars hold slavery forbidden.

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