Read you bible... If you do -- earnestly -- you'll find it full of horrific stuff.

It's like a menu at a chinese restaurant. Pick 1 from column A and 2 from B. Focus on those passage that reinforce your hate and ignore those you find inconvenient.

I believe if you read the entire context you will see that the father was a debtor. This was a very common practice in the ancient world to repay debts, so the Law supplied restrictions and regulated conduct to protect the woman's life, security and any property that she may accumulate. The servitude was usually not permanent; only until the debt was deemed paid. The *owner* or his son was free to marry her then she was the wife or treated as a "daughter".

It is still condoning slavery and showing women as being second class citizens.

I believe men also went into servitude...not unlike our indentured servants who came to America.

Frankly, it beats the debtor's prisons of Europe.