titus 1:6-9, similar to 1 timothy 2 above where paul says women are not to have any authority or speak in church or teach and must be quiet, women are not allowed to be elders in the church or have any positions. titus 1:6 and 1 timothy 3:1-3 say elders must be "faithful to their wives", doesn't even outright say women should not be in these ranks because who would even propose that!
genesis 3:16 is a classic but a good one, God punishes eve by making her husband rule over her. you'll also note that adam's punishment -- hard work to produce food, dust you are and dust you will return, etc -- is also a punishment for women, because it's not like women don't also have to work to produce food and return to dust. so eve gets the punishment of pain during childbirth and having her husband "rule over her" and adam's punishment, and adam gets a punishment he will share with women. hm.
you'll notice this "rule over you" is used right afterwards, in genesis 4:7, where God says "sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you but you must rule over it." which, to me, reads like sin and women are something equally deserving to be ruled over, controlled, dominated.
women make up less than 15% of all people mentioned in the bible, most of them being prostituted women or women who couldn't have children but needed them. 188/205 female characters have names, and almost 1,200 male characters have names.
abraham is honored as one of the most important, most righteous figures in the bible, and he gave his wife up to be raped several times saying she was his sister, and had many concubines whom he also would've raped (genesis 25:6)
in genesis 29:31-35, leah, one of jacob's several wives, has 4 sons to get him to love her (never daughters, you'll notice. daughters are not valued and rarely mentioned, and often not even named as abraham's weren't). and God makes rachel, the wife jacob loves, barren, because jacob hated his other wife, leah, who was able to have sons.
genesis 30:9-22 details jacob raping a female servant, who had a son, and rachel also had a son because God remembered her, never daughters.
genesis 31:17 jacob also had "concubines" whom he would've also raped. again, a very common theme with famous men in the bible, king solomon had 700 of these women.
genesis 35:17 is where rachel dies in childbirth, but it's ok because it's a son
leviticus 12:1-5 a woman is "unclean" for twice as long after birth if she gives birth to a daughter rather than a son. she is forbidden from touching anything sacred during this time, same if she's on her period.
leviticus 20:12 the theme of punishing women for being raped arises again, if a man rapes his daughter in law, they're both to be killed
leviticus 27:1-7 is literally God telling moses how much money people are worth, the women are always worth about half the money men are. for example, a man between 20-60 years old is worth 50 shekels of silver, a woman the same age is worth 30 shekels.
in numbers 12, miriam and aaron oppose moses for marrying a cushite woman, so God strikes miram with leprosy and forces her into confinement outside the camp for 7 days, and does not punish aaron.
numbers 27:8-11 is where God says who gets the inheritance after a man dies. first it goes to his son. if he doesn't have a son, it goes to his daughter. no daughter, it goes to his brothers. no brothers, it goes to his father's brothers. it only goes to a woman if she is his daughter and he doesn't have any sons.
numbers 30:3-6 a woman's vow is null if her father opposes it, but if he doesn't she's fully responsible. same with if she is married, her husband can nullify her vow but also holds no responsibility if he doesn't. complete control over her with none of the consequences.
deuteronomy 21:11 God tells the israelite men that if they see a beautiful woman while going to war, they can take her as captive and make her their wife (rape and sexual enslavement). if the man is not "pleased with her", he can let her go free. he is not to sell her as a slave because he has "dishonored her."
deuteronomy 21:16 adds more onto inheritance. if a man has multiple wives and doesn't love the one who had his firstborn son, he still has to give that son his inheritance when he dies, because this son is the "first sign of his father's strength". daughters and wives are to get nothing.
deuteronomy 24:1-4 if a man marries a woman who "becomes displeasing to him", he can divorce her. if she marries again, and that husband also dislikes her and divorces her, she can't remarry the first husband because she has been defiled and it would be detestable to God.
deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he dishonor's his fathers bed. again, the theme of crimes against women actually being crimes against the men who "own" them.
shall i go on! because there's really just so much material here.
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