Show n Student Life when he began his service had t6 go out of the service he un- married unless he were given a wife by his master If he was his wife married however to ' have q shoqld gojwith him “If his master had given him a wife and she had borne him sons and daughters the wife ahd her children should be his master’s and he shall go out by himself” If however the loved his master and wife and children he could bind himself for life to his master This of course related to but shows woman’s position at the same time as property in a wray of the master Another law concerns the women directly “And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid servant she shall not go as do” If the man who bought her and was betrothed to her was not pleased after marriage then he must let her be redeemed He had no or sell to her into power right an alien race because it was considered a fact that he had man-serva- nt man-eervan- ts men-servan- ts deceived her If the man who bought the daughter betrothed her to his son she was considered his and dealt with acdaughter cordingly If this man should take another wife the law provided that the food raiment and duty of the marriage to this first wife should not be dimin:hed And if he did not tise do namet': three things above “Then shall' she go out free v th out money” That is she did not have to buy her : ’ freedom There is an interesting verse in Proverbs which says: “When a man hath taken a new wife he shall not go out to war ? neither shall he be charged with any business but he shall be free at home one year and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken” The law regarding divorce was all in favor of the man If a man had a wife whom he no longer liked and who found “no favor in his eyes because he found some uncleanness in her then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house “And when she is departed out of his house she may go and be another man’s wife” If however the woman is divorced a second time she is thought to be worthless The oldest daughter was expected to marry before a younger sister The only thing in the Bible which indicates this is the fact that Laban wanted to “marry off” Leah before Rachel the younger sis? ter The good woman was admired and respected her position as a mother and a wife being one of the highest attainable The Hebrew woman was perhaps the most loved and respected woman of all times in his book on Saleely “Parenthood and Race Culture” says “ — -- In a better material environment but a far inferior maternal enviro- nment’ “The Jewish mother |