RE: Atrocities in the Bible
February 3, 2017 at 11:15 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2017 at 12:00 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(February 1, 2017 at 4:08 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I think Moses did it twice.It seems that Moses carried the stone tablet three times.
No?
Sunday school was 50 years ago for me . . . .
In Exodus 24:12 God tells Moses to come up to him on the mountain and that God will give him tablets of stone that has the law and commandments written on them. Then in Exodus 31:18 God gives Moses the stone tablets. In Exodus 32:15 Moses zips down the mountain carrying the stone tablets and in Exodus 32:19 he broke them.
Then in Exodus 34:1 God tells Moses to chip out a new set of stone tablets and to lug them back up the mountain for engraving (Exodus 34:4). After forty days and forty nights without food or drink Moses ambles back down the mountain with the stone tablets in his hands.
Despite reading the story numerous times I thought that Moses had carried the stone tablets four times. He only carried them three times. Down, up, down.
What about the one in Deuteronomy 25:11-12 where a woman is not allowed to interfere on the side of her man in a fight?
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 (MSG) = "When two men are in a fight and the wife of the one man, trying to rescue her husband, grabs the genitals of the man hitting him, you are to cut off her hand. Show no pity."
