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#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery

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The Importance of Protecting Women

If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has broken faith with her. If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. These types of laws appear throughout the legal collections in the ancient Near East.

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