--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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.
Stu, you've got an evil sense of humor on you. If you were to join Curtis and Geez in Fairfield for their party-down I might have to show up just to be able to share a few beers with the bunch of you.
