That's an explanation, in your opinion, Thomas?
"It says that if the woman does not scream, she must be killed."
That's it? That's an explanation? Or a restating of partly what is written?
Partly, as you did not even mention anything of verse 24.
Also, the passage includes the following verses...
If you read on, after the rape, it says....
“With that he called his young attendant and said: “Get this person out of my presence, please, and lock the door behind her.” 18 (Now she was wearing a special robe, for those were the garments that the virgin daughters of the king wore.) So his...
this passage is about having sex with an engaged woman in town - engaged with someone else.
It says that if the woman does not scream, she must be killed.
If I understand your posts #131 and #155 right, you seem to infer that rape implies screaming or, to put it differently, no screaming no...