In the Jewish Torah, not a single woman is ever born. Women lived in this time and were mentioned lightly, but had no rights or voice. Christine de Pizan gave the idea in The Book of City of Ladies that men were liberated from Egypt, while women were moved from Egypt but remained in suffering. This radical idea suggests that the freedom of the Israelites was not beneficial to women. Although most believe that Moses led all of his people to freedom, women continued to be greatly neglected. The Book of the City of Women is considered the first feminist novel written. Pizan writes, “Now, however, it is time for [women] to be delivered from the hands of Pharaoh.” (Book 11). He highlights the fact that women were neglected during the exodus from Egypt by exaggerating that women were so mistreated that they were not even freed from slavery. There is very little evidence that women actually left Egypt because they are rarely mentioned in Exodus. The flight from Egypt must have been characterized by an extreme amount of neglect and mistreatment to ignore an entire genre. After the exodus from Egypt, laws and commandments were issued for the new Jewish people. The most important laws enacted during this period are the Ten Commandments. These were the only laws spoken by God directly to the people. The last of these laws was: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." (Exodus 20:17). This commandment forbids envy towards the objects of others. That said, the wife was considered an object, a property. The wife was on the same level as the servant and the servant,...... in the center of the card... family. When Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt, he distanced the Jews from the Egyptian culture that had more feminism than his own. The women of the Bible were not liberated when the Jews left Egypt. This radical concept is overlooked and unappreciated. The Judeo-Christian faith has always had a lot of power in the world and its roots are tainted by anti-feminism. Is it possible that the roots of Patriarchy today derive from the anti-feminism present in the Bible? Work Cited: “KJV Dictionary Definition: To Seduce.” AV1611.Com King James Bible Page. Np, nd Web. May 12, 2014."Passages that treat women as inferior to men." THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Np, nd Web. May 12, 2014. Pizan, Christine De. The Book of the City of Ladies. New York: Persea, 1982. Print. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Trenton: I. Collins, 1791. Print.