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Well, don't you know that women are incapable of providing for themselves and taking care of themselves. What would they do without a big, strong, intelligent man to watch over their weak, stupid selves?
I agree with you. He "will turn her over." Not she will make her own autonomous decision to join in marriage with another human being, but HE will TURN HER OVER. Disgusting. Not to mention the implications that his sons are free to marry without his needing to relenquish them, but his daughters must somehow be released from his possession before doing so.
Nothing wrong with having a large family, if you so choose and are committed to providing both physically and emotionally for many children. However, using this movement as some way to "keep women in their place" (ie, inferior and subservient to men) is reprehensible and not at all biblical.
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