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Let us look at Exodus 21:7-8 "And in case a man should sell his daughter as a slave girl, she will not go out in the way that the slave men go out. If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master so that he doesn't designate her as a
concubine but causes her to be
redeemed,he will not be entitled to sell her to a foreign people in his treacherously dealing with her."
When I looked up the word "concubine" in
www.dictionary.com, I found:
1- Law. A woman who cohabits with a man.
2- In certain societies, such as imperial China, a woman contracted to a man as a secondary wife, often having few legal rights and low social status.
(
Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words)
And when I looked up the word "cohabits", I found:
1- To live together as spouses.
2- To live together in a sexual relationship when not legally married.
(
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=cohabits)
So in the Bible, the FATHER HAS THE RIGHT TO SELL HIS DAUGHTER TO BE FORCED TO SLEEP WITH OTHER MEN according to Exodus 21:7-8, and if she tries to be redeemed (to be set free), then her punishment is to be STUCK WITH HER MASTER!