[Grig]

"Exodus 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. "

In Judism, a maidservant (or a manservant) had pretty much the same status as a hired worker. Calling them a slave is decpetive, their life was NOTHING like that of slaves in the early USA.

Now are you going to follow up with some silly question about burnt offerings? It's part of the same ignorant sarcasm gays use to sneer at religion with.

[jlogajan]

In Judism, a maidservant (or a manservant) had pretty much the same status as a hired worker. Calling them a slave is decpetive

Exodus:
21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

You get to "buy" these "hired" workers. They have to serve you for six years. You have to let them go after seven years -- unless they want to stay with the wife you've bought for them, in which case they have to serve you for the rest of their lives.

Doesn't seem to be an option where female "hired hands" ever get to leave.

Oh, but none of that is slavery, no. Couldn't be. Nope.