The Bible holds women in an inferior position, as property.
See also Prostitution, Polygamy, Abandonment of
Wife
A mother is unclean for twice as long after the birth of a
daughter as after a son (Lev 12).
Adam blames Eve for his sin in the Garden (Gen 3:12).
Eve's curse is that Adam shall rule over her (Gen 3:16).
A wife is listed among her husbands property, after the
house (Ex 20:17, Deut 5:21).
God gives the Israelites rules and regulations for selling their
daughters (but not their sons) into slavery (Ex 21:7-11).
Moses enslaves 32,000 virgins (Num 31:18, 35).
Israelites slaughter their fellow Israelites of Jabesh-Gilead to
obtain wives (Judg 21:1-14).
Males of Benjamin are advised to get wives by abducting women of
Shiloh (Judg 21:16-23).
A divorced woman is as unclean as a whore and unsuited as the
wife of a priest (Lev 21:7, Ezek 44:22).
A woman cannot remarry her first husband if she married another
and was widowed or again divorced (Deut 24:1-4).
Rules for taking a captive woman to wife and what to do if you
decide you don't like her after all (Deut 21:10-14).
A rape victim must marry her rapist. The rapist must pay a
penalty to the victim's father, but not to her (Deut 22:28-
29).
If a man has sex with another man's female slave, the slave is to
be scourged, but the man will be forgiven if he offers a ram
as sacrifice (Lev 19:20-22).
A man may divorce his wife, but there is no provision for a wife
to divorce her husband (Deut 24:1, Jer 3:8, Isa 50:1, Matt
19:9, 1 Cor 7:10, Rom 7:2-3).
The Levite and the Israelite offer to the mob a concubine and a
virgin daughter for the mob to "humble" them and do "what
seemeth good unto [them]." The men in the mob abuse the
concubine all night. The Levite then kills her (or finds
her dead?) and dismembers her body (Judges 19:22-29;
Saul uses his daughter Michal for his own ends, by giving her to
David "to be a snare to him" (1 Sam 18:21).
Absalom has sex with his father's (David's) concubines to insult
him. David then punishes the concubines by imprisoning them
for life (2 Sam 16:21-22, 20:3).
David purchases Michal from Saul (2 Sam 3:13).
Amnon loves Tamar until he rapes her, then he hates her and casts
her out (2 Sam 13:1-17).
God orders Hosea to purchase a harlot (Hos 1:2, 3:1-2).
God will punish the men by causing their wives to be ravished
(Isa 13:16, Zech 14:2).
The woman is subordinate to the man (Gen 3:6, 1 Cor 11:3-11, Eph
5:22-33, 1 Pet 3:1-6).
Women should keep silent in church (1 Cor 14:34).
No woman should have authority over a man (1 Tim 2:12)