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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Sometimes out of economic necessity a man would sell his daughter into slavery. Of course no father would want to do that but in biblical times there was no social security, no welfare, no unemployment agency to tide one over until better times came. You either sold your daughter into slavery so as to replace a dead milk cow which was the only source of income, or everyone starves to death.

Those were very different and difficult times. Notice the statute is how to treat the slave justly. It does not say "And you can beat her near to death if it pleases you oh happy slave owner."

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Of course the statutes on slavery do not apply to these modern times because wonderful capitalism and our advanced economies of scale render unnecessary selling one's daughter into slavery.[/quote]

In other words, the passage is an anachronism that has outlived its usefulness.

And your argument on slavery is that, well, it wasn't REALLY slavery, just indentured servitude?  Wow.

The upshot of this is that you feel free to ignore some Old Testament passages, but insist on rigorous adherence to others, without any principled distinction between the two (other than "because of social security, it's not economically necessary to sell your children into slavery").  If you can't see the hypocrisy there, there's really no hope for you.

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