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The father even has the right to sell his daughter as a servant
(slave girl) to other men: "If a man sells his daughter as a
servant, she is not to go free as menservants do. If she does not
please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let
her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners,
because he has broken faith with her. (From the NIV Bible,
Exodus 21:7-8)"
"...and the birth of ANY daughter is a loss. (From the New
Jerusalem Bible, Ecclesiasticus 22:3)"
"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have
conceived seed, and born a MALE child: then she shall be
unclean SEVEN DAYS; according to the days of the separation
for her infirmity shall she be unclean. And in the eighth day the
flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. And she shall then
continue in the blood of her purifying THIRTY THREE days;
she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary,
until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. But if she bear a
FEMALE child, then she shall be unclean TWO WEEKS, as in
her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her
purifying SIXTY SIX days. (From the NIV Bible, Leviticus
12:2-5)"
Matthew 18:8,'' The verse, from the New Testament, reads ``If
your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it
away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than
to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire