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So when the Midianites had sent their daughters, as Balaam had exhorted
them, the Hebrew men were allured by their beauty, and came with them,
and besought them not to grudge them the enjoyment of their beauty, nor
to deny them their conversation. These daughters of Midianites received
their words gladly, and consented to it, and staid with them; but when
they brought them to be enamored of them, and their inclinations to them
were grown to ripeness, they began to think of departing from them: then
it was that these men became greatly disconsolate at the women's departure,
and they were urgent with them not to leave them, but begged they would
continue there, and become their wives; and they promised them they should
be owned as mistresses all they had. This they said with an oath, and called
God for the arbitrator of what they promised; and this with tears in their
eyes, and all such marks of concern, as might shew how miserable they thought
themselves without them, and so might move their compassion for them. So
the women, as soon as they perceived they had made their slaves, and had
caught them with their conservation began to speak thus to them: -
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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