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I Promised to Give to God What I First Saw When I Came Home
The focus here is on virginity, sexual abstinence and celibacy. As we learn from sa a and rebecca and rachel, the desire to have posterity is all consuming in ancient israel as it should still be in today's world. She returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow, which he had vowed. And she knew, no man. Now is this child sacrifice? Is this a burnt offering of his own flesh and blood? I would say no because of this focus on she's going to bewail her virginity. But thenat the end, again, she knew,no man.