RE: Reading the bible: please help!
October 5, 2018 at 11:42 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2018 at 11:50 am by Drich.)
(October 5, 2018 at 4:53 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote:(October 4, 2018 at 1:23 pm)Drich Wrote: a donkey can not equal a ox work ability.
Tell that to Neddy on Blackpool beach.
most donkeys weigh between 180 to 400 lbs and ox weighs 1500 to 3000 lbs.. the ox pulls more in free body mass than the donkey can pull fully loaded.
(October 5, 2018 at 7:35 am)unfogged Wrote:(October 4, 2018 at 1:23 pm)Drich Wrote: oxes are 10x stronger than donkeys. the way a yoke works is it puts pressure/pain on the animal who works less. If a ox is tied to a donkey in a yoke the donkey no matter how hard he works is always under a great deal of pain. The yoke is designed to spread the weight equally. a donkey can not equal a ox work ability.
Yes, and it's obviously much more important to codify something that everybody knew or would find out the moment they tried it than to order them not to have slaves or that women should be treated equally. Why is it that the book records only things that people of that culture could be reasonably expected to understand and already believe? It hasn't been given the name "the goat herder's guide to the galaxy" for nothing.
The implication goes much further than that bright side.. maybe into areas where people would not think to not pair something or people unequally. The idea is if this law pertains to the lowly donkey and ox then it also applies to things of greater status. Perhaps this is a way to give a sect of people rights, in a way that would be ignored or cause civil anger otherwise. Like don't pair a young strong slave with an old weak one and expect the same work to be done, or this could also carry over to a woman not being expected to do things that a man could more easily do in such a society.
