If a soul sin through ignorance.... 4:2
Trivia: According to the Bible, a 20 to 60 year-old man is worth 50 shekels of silver. How much is a woman of the same age worth?
If a soul sin through ignorance.... 4:2
Trivia: According to the Bible, a 20 to 60 year-old man is worth 50 shekels of silver. How much is a woman of the same age worth?
"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.
"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.
"When ye be come into the land of Canaan ... I put the plague of leprosy in ... the land of your possession." 14:34
God "put the plague of leprosy" on the Canaanites.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." 18:22
Male homosexual acts are an abomination to God.
"Keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations ... that the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you." 18:26-28
"Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." 19:27
Don't round the corners of your head or beard.
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you." 19:28
Don't get any tatoos.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards." 19:31
Stay away from wizards and people with familiar spirits.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards." 19:31
Stay away from wizards and people with familiar spirits.
Don't "go a whoring" after Molech (a neighboring god) or "commit whoredom" with him. 20:5
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 20:13
If a man has sex with another man, kill them both.
"A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them." 20:27
People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death.
"Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God." 21:16-17
No one with a blemish cannot approach the altar of God.
"Whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken ... he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God." 21:18-21
No blind, lame, short, or otherwise defective people (in God' eyes) may appoach God's altar.
No stranger or slave can "eat of the holy thing." 22:10, 13
If a priest's daughter marries a stranger she can't eat any holy things. 22:12
"Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them." 22:25
God won't accept animal sacrifices from strangers, since strangers have blemishes and are corrupt.
"Whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people." 23:29-30
Don't do any work on the day of atonement or God will destroy you.
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Bring forth him that hath cursed ... and let all the congregation stone him." 24:10-14
A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded."
"He that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him." 24:16
Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community.
"Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones." 24:23
Moses commanded the people to stone to death a man who cursed. And the Israelites did as God commanded Moses.
"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.
If you don't follow all of the laws in the Old Testament, God will shower you with all of the curses in the next 25 verses. 26:14-15
"I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." 26:16
"I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies." 26:17
"And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." 26:18
"I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." 26:21
"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle." 26:22
"I ... will punish you yet (another) seven times for your sins." 26:24
"I will bring a sword upon you ... I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." 26:25
"And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me ... then ... I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins." 26:27-28
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." 26:29
"I will ... cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." 26:30
"And I will make your cities waste." 26:31
"And I will bring the land into desolation". 26:32
"And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." 26:33
"And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth." 26:36
"And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies." 26:37
"And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." 26:38
"And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them." 26:39
God defines the value of human life in dollars and cents. Of course, to God, females are worth considerably less than males (50 - 60%) -- but neither are worth much. 27:3-7
