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.
Time Period: Biblical (early ancestors to 165 BCE)