3- Women in the bible is just like property of her father. At marriage, her ownership was transferred to her new husband
Exodus 20 -New International Version
The Ten Commandments
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house
. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
It is important to realize that a manservent and a maidservant were male and female slaves. They were not a hired butler and maid. The tenth commandment forbids coveting your neighbor's house, wife, male slave female slave, animals or anything else that the neighbor owns. The wife is clearly regarded as equivalent to a piece of property.
Exodus 21 -New International Version
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.
A slaveowner was permitted to give a woman to his male slave as a wife. There is no indication that women were consulted during this type of transaction. After serving six years, he would leave, but his wife and children would remain slaves of the slaveowner. Again, there is no indication that the woman was consulted on this arrangement
Exodus 21 - New International Version
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...21&version=NIV
7 "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do
A father could sell his daughter as a slave. Even though a male slave is automatically given his freedom after 6 years, a female slave remained a slave forever.
to be continued