If you sell your daughter as a slave....
Exodus 21:7-11 And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
PERSONAL COMMENTARY
If you're this young lady, here's your fate:
1) You are sold by your father as a slave
2) If you do not please your master, you must be redeemed
3) You cannot be sold to foreigners
4) If you're selected to marry your master's son, you become a daughter
5) If your husband then marries another you cannot be deprived of your marital rights
6) However, if you are deprived of these, you must go free
Two opportunies for freedom. Not bad.
13 comments:
This is the way things were done in this culture at this time.
Anon,
This is written as God speaking so he's the one giving this law here NOT a culture's view of slavery at a given time.... but God's view.
Is that not the case?
Paul
We're opposed to slavery because we live in an era that's anti-slavery. Anon is right - slavery 4000 years ago was commonplace. It wasn't wrong to have slaves back then. God is implementing rules to ensure slaves were properly looked after, the first whiff of worker's rights.
For the slavery section consider adding Eph 6:5, Tim 6: 1-4 (the last one is very strong)
1 Tim 6: 1-4 (correction)
@Jason
Couldn't God have used his omniscience to ensure the Bible was an eternally relevant doctrine?
God is such a silly idiot.
@Jason: Cool! Thanks!
The Bible only speaks to life at that time. So, I should ignore all the parts of The Bible more than a hundred or so years old. I have so much less to study now!!
Many thanks!!
The New Testement overrules the Old Testement. You have to remember the Bible was created from probably thousands of books to form the current document.
Wow the bible is the most contradictive work of fiction ever written. The god portrayed in the bible is an evil controlling hypocrite. God Instructs how to take virgin sex slaves, and he slaughtered thousands of babies. God of the bible is a perfect example of "Do as I say, not as I do". The new testament was a bandaid for the hypocritical and immoral garbage of the old testament. Adding the new testament was an ingenious move by the church to maintain peace and control over the changing masses by showing a god they could Love instead of Fear. Reminds me of Nazi propaganda. Tell the people whatever makes them compliant.
I thought the bible told you not to take slaves... Or sell slaves...
Guys - you all have such a limited view/definition of slavery. Slavery today exists and for a very importnat reason - punishment - what exactly do you think state prisons are - country clubs? DO you have any idea why God allowed slavery to exist in the first place - are u aware that the nations that surrounded Israel during this period in history were worshipping the god Molech - guess what, they had a common practice of sacrificing their children. Why do you think God commanded the Hebrews to destroy these wicked nations - in reality, slavery of these barbarians was actually a display of grace by God. YOu all need to research the history surrounded the commonplace ideas in the Bible. Use extra-Biblical sources to do so, not just the Bible - you might discover there is a legitimate reason for why certain things were allowed
So original Bible was for old times so its irrelevant for this time? So
New Testament, a man-altered version is better than God-send version?
Why would ANY benevolent, loving God ever allow slavery?
Since the Bible represents the culture at the time and teaches many things we now know are untrue - Doesn't it seem obvious that it was written by men and not a god?
Isn't it apparent that man created God and not the other way around?
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