> Finally: I am not familiar just off the top of my tired brain what > part of Genesis talks about selling your daughter into sexual > slavery. Can you quote the chapter/lines? > > Best regards, > > Fred > > [anip] > Life is too short to go through and transcribe stuff out of the OT. I seem to remember it came either when Lot or Noah had some travelers over to his house and he offered up his daughter for their pleasure.
Here is a quote in the same tone. I hope it will be as helpful to you as it has been to me. I just never know what to do with my slaves: Exodus Chapter 21, verse 1: Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life. I am so happy we have the OT because it tells us how to live morally. The trick is not to cherry pick g-d's word that would be making our own moral distinctions. Better to take it as a whole. s.
