Do not degrade your daughter and make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land be filled with depravity.
[JPS translation]
Suggested Discussion Questions:
1. In what ways do we degrade women in our society? How does this affect our community?
2. This text suggests that allowing one person to be degraded will result in a society falling into depravity. In what ways is this true? Bring examples from the world today.
1. In what ways do we degrade women in our society? How does this affect our community?
2. This text suggests that allowing one person to be degraded will result in a society falling into depravity. In what ways is this true? Bring examples from the world today.
Time Period: Biblical (early ancestors to 165 BCE)