And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. 7:5
"The LORD met him [Moses], and sought to kill him." 4:24-26
God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. Luckily for Moses, his Egyptian wife Zipporah "took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he [God] let him go." This story shows the importance of penises to God, and his hatred of foreskins.
"All the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die ... that ye may know how the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." 11:7
God will kill every firstborn Egyptian child to show that he likes Israelites more than Egyptians.
"I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast." 12:12
God explains to Moses that he intends to kill every Egyptian fristborn man and beast.
"When your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses." 12:26-26
When your children ask you, "Why do we celebrate the passover," tell them, "Because God passed over our houses when he was killing Egyptians and didn't kill any of us."
"At midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt ... and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." 12:29-30
After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh's heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished "there was not a house where there was not one dead." Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too.
"A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof ... No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." 12:43, 45, 48
No stranger, foreigner, or uncircumcised person can eat the Passover.
"If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD ... I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians." 15:26
If you do what God says, he won't send his diseases on you (like he did to the Egyptians). But otherwise....
"Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD." 16:8
When the people complain to Moses, he tells them they aren't complaining about him, but about God, making them apostates and heretics, and therefore deserve severe punishment. Religious leaders have used this tactic ever since.
"Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." 17:13
Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword."
"The Lord has sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." 17:14-16
God swears that he is still fighting Amalek. I hope Moses can still keep his hand up.
The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." 17:14
The God of peace will always be at war with the Amalekites.
"Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." 19:5
God favors Israelites "above all people."
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 20:3
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." 22:18
Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse.
"He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." 22:20
If this commandment were obeyed, then the four or five billion people who do not believe in the biblical god would be killed.
"Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." 23:13
Don't even mention the names of the other gods.
"I will be an enemy unto thine enemies." 23:22-23
If you obey him, God will be an enemy to your enemies, cutting them all off.
"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods ... but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." 23:24
Don't allow others to worship a different god. Conquer them and destroy their religious property.
"I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people." 23:27
God promises to "send his fear before the Israelites" and to kill everyone that they encounter when they enter the promised land.
"Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land." 23:32-33
Stay away from those who worship a different god.
"A stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy." 29:33
Don't let any strangers attend your animal sacrifices.
"Whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people." 30:33
Whoever puts holy oil on a stranger shall be "cut off from his people."
"Ye shall keep the sabbath ... every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death." 31:14
Those who break the Sabbath are to be executed.
"Let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation." 32:10
When God sees the people dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf, he gets so angry that he wants to kill everyone - except for Moses, of course, from whom he will make a great nation. So he plans to kill all the Israelites and replace them with Moses's offspring.
"Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." 32:33
"And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." 32:35p>
But God wasn't satisfied with the slaughter of the 3000, so he killed some more people with a plague.
"I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite ... ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves." 34:11-14
God drives out the pagan tribes and commands the Israelites to destroy their altars and places of worship.
"The LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." 34:14
God, "whose name is Jealous", will not tolerate the worship of any other god.
"Thou shalt make thee no molten gods." 34:17
"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death." 35:2-3
Whoever works, or even kindles a fire, on the Sabbath "shall be put to death."
