I was going to answer but brother اسلامي عزي put it wonderfully , However there are two points I am going to talk about , pandora said:

Is God right to be angered by godless behaviour and sin?? Where is the problem with God dealing with sin according to His divine knowledge and justice? Who are you to say God is not acting with mercy in ordering the deaths of children? You know all there is to God now????

Where is the wisdom in killing thousands of babies???

Your bible is your bible we do not believe in it so that you would come and say this is from god so you cannot say anything !!! This is just a statement from your side to run away from the facts


You also said :

..Not sure why you're asking Christians when this is ancient Judaic law that is no longer in force. Anyway... At that time it wasn't uncommon for poor families to give their children up to slavery. Although Slavery wasn't as bad as we think of it today.. It was more like indenture or servitude. Instead of families letting their children starve or die from sickness, they would send them to be maids or farmers under a Master so that they could receive food, water, shelter, clothing, income, etc.. These "slaves" were treated more like servants or workers contract rather than our definition of slaves.


To respond :

First it does not matter if it was ancient law it is still as you claim from god the same god of peace and love in the new testament So we have a contradiction and the same god permitted such things

Second:
The idea that people would give up their sons and daughters to be slaves is a claim from your side with no evidence , there is a difference between being a servant and being a slave

Third : Even so our point is not about slavery rather upon selling daughters to strange men to be there concubines . You probably already know that slave women during those times and in ancient judaic law can should ingage in sexual intercourse with her male master if he pleases. Therefore when someone sells his daughter at that time she is considered allegable for sex with her master. The same context itself talks about pleasing there masters and them being designated for there masters:

7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

You also said :

This passage is discussing the treament of female "servants" in specific. Women were highly protected under the Jewish law due to the fact that they were highly vulnerable in society. This is why we see so many extra laws of protection revolving around women

Again there is a difference sometimes in the bible between servants and slaves .

Second the jewish law did NOT PROTECT WOMEN rather most of it was done to take advantage of their vulnerability :

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say ... these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. Deuteronomy 22:13-21

What if the husband is lying what if he consumated the marriege and then accused her , how in the world can she prove her virginity ????

She is condemed to death anyways there is no way to prove her virginity !!!! This law shows that the girl whether innocent or guilty is going to be stoned anyways !!! because he has already came unto her :

22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her

Another example is at the case of rape of a married woman or a woman to be married:


Deuteronomy

She dies because she did not shout loud enough !!!!!

In the case of rapping an unmarried virgin she should marry her rapist !!!!: