Okay, I get what you're saying, but it's important to pay attention to the historical context there. Back then, women were only seen as valuable/good potential for a wife if they were virgins. Whether you consented to losing your virginity or not didn't matter to the people. So, if a woman was no longer a virgin, she had little to no chance of a man wanting to marry her. (This applied to widows as well.) Because not a virgin = tainted in their eyes.
This was also a time when women could not work and take care of themselves or their families. But their husband would be able to provide for them and keep them safe. Things have changed since then, obviously, but at the time, all God was doing was ensuring that the woman would be taken care of. Marrying your rapist must not have been a very happy fate, but some of the women most likely preferred it to never being married, because of what that meant in their society.
God couldn't just say "Don't rape" and end it with that, because there are some people who know it's wrong and are just going to do it anyway. But he could give many men an incentive not to even consider it, and make sure that the women had someone to take care of them in case it happened.
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This was also a time when women could not work and take care of themselves or their families. But their husband would be able to provide for them and keep them safe. Things have changed since then, obviously, but at the time, all God was doing was ensuring that the woman would be taken care of. Marrying your rapist must not have been a very happy fate, but some of the women most likely preferred it to never being married, because of what that meant in their society.
God couldn't just say "Don't rape" and end it with that, because there are some people who know it's wrong and are just going to do it anyway. But he could give many men an incentive not to even consider it, and make sure that the women had someone to take care of them in case it happened.