Originally posted by Zahlanzi
have a chill pill. i was responding to a point made by someone else. i already responded to you and your nauseating excuse of daughters being sold as sex toys/slaves without any input from the daughter.
The passage has absolutely nothing to do with selling a daughter as a sex slave. You're ignorant.
The passage has to do with debt servitude which was an unfortunate part of ancient near eastern culture.
Today in the sports world we talk of one team "owning" certain player or of someone being "sold" from one team to another. This does not mean they are dehumanized property does it ?
Compared to the ancient Hebrew laws given by Moses, the treatment of slaves was far less humane in other surrounding cultures.
In this passage an impoverished family hires out a daughter as a temporary dept servant. In the process of her service the master desires to MARRY her. That is not rape her and that is not toy with her. That is he desires to follow other laws about Hebrew marriage and take her for a wife.
Got that? A slave or servant who becomes a master's WIFE. Now divorce was also a sad fact of life then as it is today. So God made provision for divorce, which God says He hates
(Malachi 2:16).
This portion of Exodus is instructions in the complicated case in which a husband of his servant wife he decides he wants to divorce. There is a provision included in case he decides that he wants to give the former wife / servant to his son.
While it would take more time to study the case more fully, I can see the essence of it. It is more about protecting the woman in that situation.
You say you quoted a portion of the passage on purpose. I like to think that there are some people who are seeking explanations to honest problems they have in the Bible. In your case I think you only wish to establish criticism. And your approach to do so is not commendable. It is more like dirty politics.
Anyway, the law appears to be more concerned with preserving the dignity and rights of the female servant.
This is a case law describing what to do in a complicated situation. It is not God's command to go off and get into that situation.