First, I find Eve was Not blamed , but Adam was.
The slavery of old was Not the same as the slave-trade business of the Old South.
Woman were made in God's image. Man and women were to co-operate, Not compete, with each other.
The Old Law said to 'honor' mother...
Pregnant women where given honorable consideration at Exodus chapter 21.
Women could obtain a field, vineyard, besides run her own business - Proverbs 31:11; Proverbs 31:16-19.
Women could run a profitable business - Proverbs 31:24.
Women had a personal relationship with God such as Hannah did at 1 Samuel 1:11; 1 Samuel 1:24-28.
The woman of 2 Kings 4:22-25 consulted Elisha on Sabbath days.
Men did seek advice from Deborah and Huldah (women) as per Judges 4:4-8; 2 Kings 22:14-16; 2 Kings 14:20.
Women were included to education about the Law - Deuteronomy 31:12; Nehemiah 8:2; Nehemiah 8:8.
Women served at the tabernacle as per Exodus 38:1; 1 Chronicles 25:5-6
Women were to share in educating male children - Proverbs 31:1.
Children were Not to forsake the law of the mother as per Proverbs 1:8.
The woman who was unfairly treated, God stepped in at 2 Kings 4:1-7.
Women could inherit even if No sons were in the family - Numbers 27:1-8.
Jesus did Not treat women as inferior. Remember the Woman at the Well.
Older woman treated as mothers, and younger women as sisters - 1 Timothy 5:2.
Women's place was Not just for the kitchen - Luke 10:38-42.
Jesus chose ' women ' to bear witness to his resurrection first.
Husbands are to assign honor to their wives 1 Peter 3:7; Genesis 21:12.
The ' promised land ' area was promised by God so that land was under His regulations.
The Golden Rule of Leviticus 19:18 also applied to foreigners - Leviticus 19:33-34.
The Gibeonites chose to accept God's regulations and they could stay in the promised land.
Those who were executed (not murdered) were for the sake of justice for the righteous.
We have discussed all of this.
Women are secondary in the Abrahamic religions. Telling a slave she is a good mother, so you kids treat her right, does not make her less a slave.
Yes women could inherit a small portion. Usually it went to a related male. The verse you are using is about a special condition in a war in Israel. There are no males to get their tribal lands, so the women are told they can inherit the land.
Num 26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able
to go to war in Israel.
Num 26:53
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Num 27:3
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin,
and had no sons.
Num 27:4
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son?
Give unto us therefore a possession/LAND among the brethren of our father.
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Slavery WAS exactly like slavery in the south - as they could beat, breed, and keep slaves forever. Only Hebrew indentured servants had to be set free.
Lev 25:45 Moreover of
the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you,
of them shall ye buy, and of
their families that are with you, which they begat in your land:
and they shall be your possession.
Lev 25:46 And
you shall take them for inheritance to your sons after you, to hold for a possession;
you may enslave them forever. But on your brothers, the sons of Israel, one over another, you shall not rule over him with severity.
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You think 21:22 is consideration of pregnant women? Women and children were property of the male. If the broodmare lives (to pump out more kids) - and only the fetus dies, - the male causing the damage to the property is fined. If the broodmare dies, more loss = more payment/judgment..
Exo 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart
from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges
determine.
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Also - pregnant women could be forced into abortions if their husbands thought they were unfaithful.
Num 5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
Num 5:13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
there be no witness against her, neither she be taken
with the manner;
Num 5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Num 5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth
part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it
is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Num 5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
Num 5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put
it into the water:
Num 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which
is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand
the bitter water that causeth the curse:
Num 5:19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness
with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
Num 5:20 But if thou hast gone aside
to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Num 5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Num 5:22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make
thy belly to swell, and
thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
Interesting, yes? Forced abortion.
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