The Lord said to Moses, "You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured. Divide the spoils equally between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community. Number 31: 25-27
The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man. Numbers 31:32-35
What proud father wouldn't, moments before his slaughter, hope for his young, innocent daughter to be divided by his murderers as a victory spoil? (Note: Notice that sheep, cattle, and donkeys ranked ahead of the virgin women on the list of spoils. Scholars still debate whether these nomads found the livestock to be more valuable than the girls, or if they merely preferred screwing the livestock because the young girls wept so forcefully during the non-consensual sex.)
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