And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. 15:17
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. 15:17
"There went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." 10:1-2
Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord", so God burned them to death.
"And Aaron held his peace. 10:3
Moses tells Aaron that his sons were burned to death to sanctify and glorify God. And Aaron said nothing.
"And Aaron held his peace. 10:3
Moses tells Aaron that his sons were burned to death to sanctify and glorify God. And Aaron said nothing.
"Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people." 10:4-6
Moses tells Aaron's cousins to drag the burned bodies out of the camp, and he warns Aaron not to mourn the death of his sons or God will kill him too, along with everyone else.
"She shall be unclean." 12:1-5
Women are dirty and sinful after childbirth, so God prescribes rituals for their purification. (And baby girls make them twice as sinful and dirty as baby boys do.)
"If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days ... And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days." 12:2, 4
If a boy is born, the mother is unclean for 7 days and must be purified for 33 days.
"But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks ... and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days." 12:5
If a girl is born, the mother is unclean for 14 days and be purified for 66 days. This is because, in the eyes of God, girls are twice as dirty as boys.
"She shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or dove, for a sin offering ... and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood." 12:6-7
Women must be cleansed from the blood of childbirth with the bloody sacrifice of an animal to God.
"For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death."
Couldn't we try spanking first? 20:9
"And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." 20:11
If a man has sex with his father's wife, kill them both.
"If a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them." 20:12
If a man "lies" with his daughter-in-law, then both must be killed.
"And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they." 20:14
If you "lie" with your wife and your mother-in-law (that sounds like fun!), all three of your must be burned to death.
"If a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off." 20:17
Don't see your sister naked or let her see yours.
"And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister." 20:19
Don't see your aunts naked.
"In shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless." 20:20
Don't have sex with your uncle's wife - or you'll both die childless.
"If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless." 20:21
Don't have sex with your brother's wife - or you'll both die childless.
"And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." 21:9
A priest's daughter who "plays the whore" is to be burned to death.
"Thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids ... of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever" 25:44-46
God tells the Israelites to make slaves out of their neighbors and their families. The "heathens" and "strangers" are to be their possessions forever.
"Ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." 26:16
"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children." 26:22
If you disobey God, he'll send wild beasts to kill your children.
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." 26:29
If you disobey God, he'll force you to eat your children.
