2007-01-24 19:30:47 · 10 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
So these are the Bible family values! A man can buy as many sex slaves as he wants as long as he feeds them, clothes them, and screws them!
2007-01-24 19:44:07 · update #1
Amazing, the number of answers saying "nowhere"! Don't these people know that to lie is a sin ?
Fortunately there are a few honest bible readers that give the proper information.
2007-01-24 21:03:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The strange thing is that in some versions of the bible is says Servant girl. Others it says slave others say indentured servant. This was due to interpretation of semantics. Mind you it's not the same as translation.
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
( don't see any sex in there. )
If she does not " please "
( this can mean sexualy please but there is not context for it. Haven't you ever " not been pleased " by the service at Burger King? )
the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.
( simply put keep in the neigborhood. A deal is a deal. )
And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son,
(In this era there were many arranged marrages this doesn't necassarly mean she was forced to sleep with him prior to marrige. given that it wasn't socially acceptable to do so. )
he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment
(Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
Everything after arranging a marrige basicly gives the once servent full rights to be a wife and freedom to leave If he doesn't perform the Husbandly dueties set for by God. The most common belief is that it means you can have a slave and make her a sex slave. Others believe that it means that you can have a servant and make her into a wife.
2007-01-25 03:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by x0zx 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Slavery was permitted in the Bible because of sin in the world. It existed before the Jews were formed as a nation and it existed after Israel was conquered. God allows many things to happen in the world such as storms, famine, murder, etc. Slavery, like divorce, is not preferred by God. Instead, it is allowed. Where many nations treated their slaves very badly, the Bible gave many rights and privileges to slaves. So, even though it isn't the best way to deal with people, because God has allowed man freedom, slavery then exists. God instructed the Israelites to treat them properly.
The Bible acknowledged the slave’s status as the property of the master (Ex. 21:23; Lev. 25:46),
The Bible restricted the master’s power over the slave. Ex. 21:20).
The slave was a member of the master’s household (Lev. 22:11)
The slave was required to rest on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10; Deut. 5:14)
The slave was required and to participate in religious observances (Gen. 17:13; Exodus 12:44; Lev. 22:11).
The Bible prohibited extradition of slaves and granted them asylum (Deut. 23:16-17).
The servitude of a Hebrew debt-slave was limited to six years (Ex. 21:2; Deut. 15:12).
When a slave was freed, he was to receive gifts that enabled him to survive economically (Deut. 15:14)
The reality of slavery cannot be denied. Slaves were "slave labor played a minor economic role in the ancient Near East, for privately owned slaves functioned more as domestic servants than as an agricultural or industrial labor force."1
Why did the Virgins not get killed in Numbers 31?
The virgins were spared because they obviously had had no role in the Baal of Peor incident nor could they by themselves perpetuate the Midianite peoples."1
Some may object that the Israelites then married the virgins, the daughters of those whom they had killed and that this would be a horrible thing for the virgins. Perhaps it was a horrible thing for them. But, their lives were spared. Also, in that culture at that time, warfare and plunder was a necessary evil. The reality of taking women as wives was unfortunate but true.
Why was God so harsh with those in idolatry?
We must understand that God dealt very harshly because it was through the people of Israel that the Messiah would later come. Satan, in his perpetual effort to oppose God, sought to have the people of God fall into false worship and through intermarriage with other people, to destroy the messianic line and make not only the promises of God null and void, but destroy means by which the Messiah could be born. If this could be accomplished, then none would have any hope of deliverance from sin. Therefore, we see in the Old Testament God being very harsh and strict according to the Law.
2007-01-25 04:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by Sternchen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Numbers 31:1-54
Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! (Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins.)
Judges 21:7-23
To find wives for the Benjamites (they were unwilling to use their own daughters), the other tribes attacked and killed all occupants of a city except for the young virgins. These virgins were then given to the Benjamites for wives.
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
2007-01-25 03:42:00 · answer #4 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No where that I know of, peace to you.
Several cultures held traditions that said if a woman could not conceive she could give her maidservant to her husband, as Sarah did with Abraham. But this is CLEARLY against Biblical teachings regarding adultery.
Sarah was wrong for giving Hagar to Abe, and he was wrong for accepting it. What a different world we would live in today if they had made the right choice.
2007-01-25 03:36:53 · answer #5 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Even if it was the Old Testament it has no bearing on today or the New Testament. You must be thinking of quaran.
2007-01-25 03:41:40 · answer #6 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No where God says clearly it is better for a man to never have sex,but if He can not contain himself ,Then Marry.
2007-01-25 03:41:10 · answer #7 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I do not think it does but in genesis the women often gave their maids to their husbands to bare children for them. Abraham was given hogger by Sarah but he gave her back to Sarah. and Jacob was given the maids of both his wives to bare him son's.
2007-01-25 03:37:00 · answer #8 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nowhere that I know of but I think I did read it in the Quran.
2007-01-25 03:36:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No where.
2007-01-25 03:35:27 · answer #10 · answered by Milo 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋