FoodBanter.com - Andrew B Chung Bible Study of the Day: It's Okay to Sell Your Daughter Into Slavery (Exo 21:7)

Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting Ass wrote:
> Why not, you own there uterus, you might as well own everything else!
>
> http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ex/21.html#7
>
> How to sell your daughter -- and what to do if she fails to please her
> new master. 21:7-8
>
> EXODUS
>
> 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not
> go out as the menservants do.
> 21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself,
> then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation
> he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

Here are the verses you cite in the proper context:

2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But
in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he
comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he
comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she
bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to
her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and
children and do not want to go free,' 6 then his master must take him
before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and
pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
7 "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as
menservants do. 8 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. (Exodus
21:2-8)

May the LORD continue to bless the writing of HIS Word here in the
USENET newsgroups. Amen.

May the LORD help you appreciate the strength of the truth someday,
dear Yang whom I love, in Jesus' most precious and holy name :-))

Now this is about the works of the four riders on horseback from the
6th chapter of the Book of Revelation (we are now in the 6th year into
the third millenium after the birth of the Son of Man)

(1) Crowned rider wielding a bow and riding a white horse:

"See you on the other side. It's not bad. We are just going to
sleep." - missive (missile) from one of 12 born-again Christian miners
who gave up their lives to save the youngest among them after being
trapped by an explosion in a W.Va mine.

(2) Rider wielding a sword and riding a fiery red horse:

Ariel Sharon, the world's hope for lasting peace in the middle east,
suffers a massive bleeding stroke. Violence and bloodshed in Iraq
escalates. U.S. now less likely to pull out of Iraq anytime soon.

(3) Rider wielding a set of food scales and riding a black horse:

The rate of increase of the number of people worldwide using the
2PD-OMER Approach (which advocates the use of food scales) accelerates
with growing worldwide concerns about the obesity epidemic:

http://www.HeartMDPhD.com/wtloss.asp

(4) Rider on a pale horse given the authority to kill a fourth of the
world's population "by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts
of the earth":

The H5N1 Avian Flu Pandemic is he

http://tinyurl.com/amj4a

Yes, the migratory birds spreading H5N1 virus are wild beasts of the
earth.

Would be more than happy to "glow" and chat about this and other things
like cardiology, diabetes and nutrition that interest those following
this thread here during the next on-line chat (01/19/06) from 6 to 7 pm
EST:

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For those who are put off by the signature, my advance apologies for
how the LORD has reshaped me:

http://tinyurl.com/bgfqt

Prayerfully in Christ's love,

Andrew
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