Insults to women in Leviticus

1. Only unblemished males are to be killed and offered to God. Females don't even make good burnt offerings. 1:3, 10

2. When a king sins only the best sacrifice will do -- he must offer a male goat to God. But if a commoner sins, a female will do. 4:22-28

3. Women are dirty and sinful after childbirth, so God prescribes rituals for their purification. If a boy is born, the mother is unclean for 7 days and must be purified for 33 days; but if a girl is born, the mother is unclean for 14 days and be purified for 66 days. This is because, in the eyes of God, girls are twice as dirty as boys. 12:1-5

4. After a woman gives birth, a priest must kill a lamb, pigeon, or dove as a sin offering. This is because having children is sinful and God likes it when things are killed for him. 12:6-8

5. God lays down the law on menstruating women. Such women are to God both filthy and sinful, and anyone who comes near them is contaminated by them. 15:19-30, 33

6. A man who has sex with a menstruating woman "shall be unclean seven days." 15:24

7. "Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is apart for her uncleanness," Don't even look at a menstruating woman. 18:19

8. If a man has sex with an engaged slave woman, scourge the woman, but don't punish the man. (Even if he raped her?) 19:20-22

9. If a man has sex with his father's wife, kill them both. 20:11

10. If a man has sex with his daughter in law, kill them both. 20:12

11. If you "lie" with your wife and your mother-in-law (now that sounds fun!), then all three

12. If a woman "lies with a beast" both the woman and the animal are to be killed. 20:15

13. If a man has sex with a menstruating woman, they both "shall be cut off from among their people." 20:18

14. Women with "familiar spirits" are to be stoned to death. 20:27

15. Priests can't marry "whores", "profane", or divorced women. Why? Because "he is holy unto his God" and they would defile him. 21:7

16. A priest's daughter who "plays the whore" is to be burned to death. 21:9

17. A priest can only marry a virgin. No harlots, widows, or divorced women will do. (God really likes virgins.) 21:13-14

18. If a priest's daughter marries "a stranger" she can't eat any holy things. 22:12

19. God defines the value of human life in dollars and cents. Of course, to God, females are worth considerably less than males (50 - 60%) -- but neither are worth much. 27:3-7