[PieterCasparzen]

Remember, these stories all come out of the Middle East. To the men who wrote the Bible, women and children were pretty much replaceable commodities, and if the new woman was younger than the old one, hey... he traded up.

Honoring women is quite fundamental to God's Word, but it has to be honestly studied to find that truth.

The "table(s) of the law" (commandments) are foundational, and they reveal a requirement for true honor of women.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We’d lie if we said that the earlier parts of the bible often glossed over such issues. We don’t see Lot being explicitly criticized for his efforts to flummox the homosexual perverts drooling at his door by offering his daughters to them (only for them to be misused and Lot not even coming back out to help), for instance. But the bible isn’t advertised as a complete account of every situation that its documentation touches upon.