"Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine." 13:2, 12, 15

To commemorate the divine massacre of the Egyptian children, Moses instructs the Israelites to "sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix" -- all the males, that is. God has no use for dead, burnt female bodies.

"Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives." 19:15

Moses, like a coach giving instructions to the team before the big game, tells the men to "come not at your wives" before he goes up to Mt. Sinai.

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, ... nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's." 20:17

In the Bible, women are the property of men; they are his possessions -- like an ox or an ass.

"If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant ... If she please not her master...." 21:7-8

How to sell your daughter -- and what to do if she fails to please her new master.

"If he take him another wife...." 21:10

God's instructions for taking a second wife.

"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." 21:22

If a man causes a pregnant woman to miscarry, he must pay the woman's father some money. But if the woman dies, the man must be killed.

This passage shows that the biblical author considered a woman's life to be more valuable than that of the fetus.

"If a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife." 22:16

If you "entice" an "unmarried maid" to "lie" with you, then you must marry her, unless the father refuses to give her to you, in which case you must pay him the going price for virgins.

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." 22:18

Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse.

"Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God." 23:17

Three times a year God wants to see all of the males. The females he never wants to see.

"Their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods." 34:16

God always blames the women; it is they who "go a whoring" and then "make" the men "go a whoring."

"Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God." 34:23

"Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord." But what about the "women children"? Don't they ever get to appear before the Lord?