Injustice in the Bible


Genesis


"Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it."


Why not? What's wrong with knowing right from wrong? 2:17


"In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. ... Thy husband ... shall rule over thee."


God punishes Eve, and all women after her, with the pains of childbirth and subjection to men. 3:16


God likes Abel's dead animals better than Cain's fruits and vegetables. Why? Well, no reason is given, but it probably has something to do with the amount of pain, blood, and gore involved. 4:3-5


Lamech kills a man and claims that since Cain's murderer would be punished sevenfold, whoever murders him will be punished seventy-seven fold. That sounds fair. 4:23-24


"I will destroy ... both man and beast."


God is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and "all flesh wherein there is breath of life." He plans to drown them all. 6:7, 17


"Every living substance that I have made will I destroy."


God repeats his intention to kill "every living substance ... from off the face of the earth." But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. 7:4


"All flesh died that moved upon the earth."


God drowns everything that breathes air. From newborn babies to koala bears -- all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all. 7:21-23


"Into your hand are they (the animals) delivered." God gave the animals to humans, and they can do whatever they please with them. This verse has been used by bible believers to justify all kinds of cruelty to animals and environmental destruction. 9:2


The "just and righteous" Noah (6:9, 7:1) plants a vineyard, gets drunk, and lies around naked in his tent. His son, Ham, happens to see his father in this condition. When Noah sobers up and hears "what his young son had done unto him" (what did he do besides look at him?), he curses not Ham, who "saw the nakedness of his father," but Ham's son, Canaan. "A servant of servants shall he [Canaan] be unto his brethren." This is a typical case of biblical justice, and is one of many Bible passages that have been used to justify slavery. 9:20-25


"I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee."


God will bless you if you bless Abraham and curse you if you curse Abraham. Fuck Abraham. 12:3


To pay Abraham for the use of his "sister", the Pharaoh gave him sheep, oxen and male and female asses and slaves. 12:16


God sends a plague on the Pharaoh and his household because the Pharaoh believed Abram's lie. 12:17


God gives Abraham and his descendants all of the land of Canaan forever. This promise is still used to justify the unending battles over the land in the Middle East. 13:14-15, 17:8


Hagar conceives, making Sarai jealous. Abram tells Sarai to do to Hagar whatever she wants. "And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled." 16:6


The angel tells Hagar to return and submit to her abusive owner, Sarai. 16:8-9


God tells Abram that all males must be circumcised, even those whom Abram had bought with money. There isn't the slightest evidence in this passage, or in any other in the Bible, that the biblical God disapproves of slavery. 17:12-13, 23-27


An uncircumcised boy is to be abandoned by his parents and community. 17:14


Abraham begs God not to kill everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah. [Which is odd, since later (Genesis 22:2-10) Abraham doesn't even question God's request that he kill his own son.] He asks God two good questions: "Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked?" and "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" 18:23-25


"I will not destroy it for ten's sake."


I guess God couldn't find even ten good Sodomites because he decides to kill them all in Genesis 19. Too bad Abraham didn't ask God about the children. Why not save them? If Abraham could find 10 good children, toddlers, infants, or babies, would God spare the city? Apparently not. God doesn't give a damn about children. 18:32


Lot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Peter 2:7-8. 19:8


Lot lied about his daughters being "virgins" in 19:8. But it was a "just and righteous" lie, intended to make them more attractive to the sex-crazed mob. 19:14


God kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family.19:24


Lot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26


God gets angry with king Abimelech, though the king hasn't even touched Sarah. He says to the king, "Behold, thou art but a dead man," and threatens to kill him and all of his people. To compensate for the crime he never committed, Abimelech gives Abraham sheep, oxen, slaves, silver, and land. Finally, after Abraham "prayed unto God," God lifts his punishment to Abimelech, "for the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah." 20:3-18


God "closed all the wombs" because Abimelech believed Abe's lie. 20:18


Sarah, after giving birth to Isaac, gets angry again at Hagar (see 16:5-6) and tells Abraham to 'cast out this bondwoman and her son." God commands Abraham to "hearken unto her voice." So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die. 21:10-14


After the water ran out, Hagar left Ishmael alone to die. But God heard the infant crying, so he had an angel cry to Hagar from heaven, telling her not to worry. God heard the child's cry and opened Hagar's eyes so she could see a well, filled with water. God said he'd make Ishmael a great nation, and the child became an archer. 21:14-20


God orders Abraham to kill Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham shows his love for God by his willingness to murder his son. But finally, just before Isaac's throat is slit, God provides a goat to kill instead. 22:2-13


Abraham shows his willingness to kill his son for God. Only an evil God would ask a father to do that; only a bad father would be willing to do it. 22:10


"Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son."


Why did God love Abraham so much? Because he was willing to murder his son for him. (Greater evil hath no man than this, that he is willing to kill his own son for God.) 22:16


God blessed Abraham by giving him lots of slaves. 24:35


"Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac."


Abraham gave everything he had to Isaac, ignoring his other sons (Ishmael, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian,Ishbak, and Shuah), as well as all of his nameless and unmentioned daughters, along with God knows how many other children he had with his other concubines. 25:2


Isaac loved Esau because Esau was a hunter and Isaac loved venison. Rebekah loved Jacob, but God hated Esau (see Romans 9:13). No reason is given for why one son is loved while the other is hated. But since God chose to act this way, it must have been as an example for parents to follow. Have you decided which of your children to hate? 25:28


God blessed Isaac (like his father Abraham before him) with many slaves. 26:12-14


Jacob, with coaching from his mother, obtains Isaac's blessing by lying. God seems to have been fooled as well. 27:19


Jacob offers to work for seven years to pay for Rachel. As it turns out, he is tricked into having sex with her sister, Leah, instead, so he has to work for another seven years so in order to pay for them both. 29:18-30


As part of the deal with Jacob, Zilpah and Bilhah (Laban's slaves) are handed over to Leah and Rachel. 29:24, 29


God inspired Jacob's science experiment (on speckled cattle breeding) so that Jacob could take all of Laban's cattle. 31:9


Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is "defiled" by a man who seems to love her dearly. Her brothers trick all of the men of the town and kill them (after first having them all circumcised), and then take their wives and children captive. 34:1-31


"The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them." 35:5


"And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him." What did Er do to elicit God's wrath? The Bible doesn't say. Maybe he picked up some sticks on Saturday. 38:7


After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to "go in unto they brother's wife." But "Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and ... when he went in unto his brother's wife ... he spilled it on the ground.... And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also." This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of both masturbation and birth control. 38:8-10


After Judah pays Tamar for her services, he is told that she "played the harlot" and "is with child by whoredom." When Judah hears this, he says, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." 38:24


God brought a seven year, "very grievous" famine on the whole earth for no apparent reason (except maybe to make Joseph wealthy). 41:54


Joseph falsely accuses his brothers of stealing his magic devining cup. 44:4-13


Exodus


Moses murders an Egyptian after making sure that no one is looking. 2:11-12


"I will ... smite Egypt with all my wonders." 3:20


Why are some people born with disabilities? Because God deliberately makes them that way. 4:11


God begins the process of "hardening Pharaoh's heart", thus making it impossible for any of the plagues that God sends to have any beneficial effect.


(see also 7:3, 13, 9:12, 10:1, 20, 27, 11:10, 14:4, 8) 4:21


God threatens to kill Pharaoh's firstborn son. 4:23


God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. 4:24-26


Moses and Aaron ask the Pharaoh to let all the Israelites go into the desert to pray for three days, or else God will kill them all "with pestilence, or with the sword." 5:3


God will make sure that Pharaoh does not listen to Moses, so that he can kill Egyptians with his armies. 7:4


"And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD." Who else could be so cruel and unjust? 7:5, 17


God sent flies on everyone in Egypt except for in Goshen, where the Israelites lived. 8:22


God tells Moses and Aaron to smite the river and turn it into blood. This is the first of the famous 10 plagues of Egypt. 7:17-24


The fifth plague: all cattle in Egypt die.


But a little later (9:19-20, 12:29), God kills them again a couple more times. 9:6


The sixth plague: boils and blains upon man and beast. 9:9-12


"For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth." Who else but the biblical god could be so cruel? 9:14


God made the Pharaoh king so that God could show off his power. 9:16


"Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail." 9:26


The seventh plague is hail. "And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast." 9:22-25


God wants to be remembered forever for the mass murder of little children. 10:2


"Let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and jewels of gold."


God tells the Israelites to steal silver and gold from the Egyptians. 11:2


These verses clearly show that the mass murder of innocent children by God was premeditated. (see 12:29-30) 11:4-6


God will kill the Egyptian children to show that he puts "a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." 11:7


God explains to Moses that he intends to "smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. 12:12


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. 12:29-30


After God killed all the firstborn Egyptians, the Pharaoh told Moses to "go serve the LORD ... be gone, and bless me also." 12:31-32


God encourages the Israelites to steal from the Egyptians. 12:35-36


No stranger, foreigner, or uncircumcised person can eat the Passover. 12:43, 45, 48


"But every man's servant that is bought for money...." Once again, God shows his approval of slavery. 12:44


To commemorate the divine massacre of the Egyptian children, Moses instructs the Israelites to "sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix" -- all the males, that is. God has no use for dead, burnt female bodies. 13:2, 12, 15


"I will harden Pharaoh's heart." 14:4


After hardening Pharaoh's heart a few more times, God drowns Pharaoh's army in the sea. 14:4-28


The LORD shall fight for you. 14:14


"I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour." 14:17


"And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen." 14:18


"And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians." 14:26


"And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians." 14:31


If you do what God says, he won't send his diseases on you (like he did to the Egyptians). But otherwise.... 15:26


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. 16:8


Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword." 17:13


"I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." 17:14


"The Lord has sworn [God swears!] that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." So God is still fighting Amalek. I hope Moses can still keep his hand up. 17:14-16


God favors Israelites "above all people." 19:5


Any person or animal that touches Mt. Sinai shall be stoned to death or "shot through." Did Moses impose such severe penalties because he feared that someone might see him fake his meeting with God? 19:12-13


Like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, nobody can see God and live. 19:21


"I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." Any god that would make such a statement is worse than jealous, although that would be bad enough. He is cruel and unjust as well. 20:5


"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ... manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." In the Bible, slaves (servants in the KJV) are the rightful property of slave-owners; they are his possessions -- like an ox or an ass. 20:17


God gives instructions for killing and burning animals. He says that if we will make such "burnt offerings," he will bless us for it. What kind of mind would be pleased by the killing and burning of innocent animals? 20:24


God sets down the rules regarding Hebrew slaves. You can buy one, but you must set him free on the seventh year. But if you have "given" him a wife and she bears children, then you get to keep the wife and kids. If he refuses to leave his family when his seven years are up, then bore a hole through his ear and keep him forever. (That sounds fair!) 21:2-6


"His master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever." 21:6


How to sell your daughter -- and what to do if she fails to please her new master. 21:7-8


A child who hits or curses his parents must be executed. 21:15, 17


Slavery is approved by God, and those who steal slaves must be killed. 21:16


It's OK with God if you slowly beat your slaves to death. After all, they are your money. 21:20-21


An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 21:24-25


It's okay to beat your slaves; even if they die you won't be punished, just as long as they survive a day or two after the beating (see verses 21:20-21). But avoid excessive damage to their eyes or teeth. Otherwise you may have to set them free. 21:26-27


If an ox gores someone, "then the ox shall surely be stoned." 21:28


If an ox gores someone due to the negligence of its owner, then "the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall be put to death.". 21:29


If an ox gores a slave, the owner of the ox must pay the owner of the slave 30 shekels of silver, and "the ox shall be stoned." 21:32


If a thief is caught and is too poor to make a complete restitution, then he is to be sold to pay for his theft. 22:3


If you "entice" an "unmarried maid" to "lie" with you, then you must marry her, unless the father refuses to give her to you, in which case you must pay him the going price for virgins. 22:16


"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse. 22:18


"Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death." Is it really necessary to kill such people? Couldn't we just send them to counseling or something? 22:19


"He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." If this commandment is obeyed, then the four billion people who do not believe in the biblical god must be killed. 22:20


If you make God angry enough, he will kill you and your family with his own sword. 22:24


"The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt give unto me." (As a burnt offering?) 22:29


God will send an angel to help his people. If they obey him, God will be an enemy to their enemies, cutting them all off. 23:22-23


God promises to "send his fear before the Israelites" and to kill everyone that they encounter when they enter the promised land. 23:27


God has hornets that bite and kill people. 23:28


"The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel."


The Christian Right uses this verse to justify an absolute flat tax, where everyone, rich or poor, pays the same dollar amount in taxes. 30:15


Wash up or die. This is a good verse to use when reminding the kiddies to wash their hands before supper. 30:20


Whoever puts holy oil on a stranger shall be "cut off from his people." 30:33


And whoever uses God's favorite perfume will be exiled. 30:37-38


Those who break the Sabbath are to be executed. 31:14


Aaron makes a golden calf and tells the people to take off their clothes and dance around naked. God then punishes them mercilessly for following their divinely appointed religious leader. 32:1-35


"And the Lord repented of the evil which he though to do unto his people." But how could a good God even consider doing evil to anyone? 32:14


Moses burned the golden calf, ground it into powder, and then forced it down the throats of all the people. 32:20


God orders the sons of Levi (Moses, Aaron, and the other members of their tribe that were "on the Lord's side") to kill "every man his neighbor." "And there fell of the people that day about 3000 men." 32:27-28


"Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." 32:33


But God wasn't satisfied with the slaughter of the 3000, so he killed some more people with a plague. 32:35


God says that he visits "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation." 34:7


God drives out the pagan tribes and commands the Israelites to destroy their altars and places of worship. 34:11-14


If you can't redeem him, then just "break his neck." Hey, it's all for the glory of God. 34:20


Whoever works, or even kindles a fire, on the Sabbath "shall be put to death." 35:2-3


Leviticus


The offering for an individual who sins through ignorance: An unblemished bullock 4:1-12


The offering for a congregation that sins through ignorance: A bullock (blemished or unblemished) 4:13-21


The offering for a ruler who sins through ignorance: A young unblemished male goat 4:22-25


The offering for a common person who sins through ignorance: A young unblemished female sheep or goat 4:27-35


If you sin without knowing that you've done anything wrong, kill an unblemished ram for God. 5:14-15


"If a soul sin ... though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity."


If you sin against your own will, you are still guilty. 5:17


"If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day ... it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity."


Don't eat any of your dead sacrificial animals on the third day after you kill them. That is an abomination to God and he will never forgive you for it! 7:18


Don't eat any sacrificed animals while you have your uncleanness upon you. If you do, you'll be exiled. 7:20


If you touch any unclean thing (like "the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any other abominable unclean thing") while eating sacrificed animals, you will be exiled. 7:21


Don't eat the fat of ox, sheep, or goats; or of an animal that dies of natural causes; or of burnt offerings. Whoever eats these things will be exiled. 7:23-25


Don't eat blood. Whoever does will be exiled. 7:26


Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord" and "there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord." 10:1-2


Moses tells Aaron that his sons were burned to death to sanctify and glorify God. 10:3


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. 10:4-6


If priests misbehave at the tabernacle by uncovering their heads, tearing their clothes, leaving with holy oil on them, or by drinking "wine or strong drink", then God will kill them and send his wrath on "all the people." 10:6-9


God will kill any priest that leaves the tabernacle. 10:7


If priests misbehave at the tabernacle by by drinking "wine or strong drink," then God will kill them and send his wrath on "all the people." "It shall be a statute for ever." 10:9


"She shall bring a lamb ... for a burnt offering, and... a young pigeon, or dove, for a sin offering."


After a woman gives birth, a priest must kill a lamb, pigeon, or dove as a sin offering. This is because having children is sinful and God likes it when things are killed for him. 12:6


Lepers must tear up their clothes, not wear hats, cover their upper lips, and cry "unclean, unclean."They are defiled, unclean, and must live alone, away from everyone else. 13:45-46


"When ye be come into the land of Canaan ... I put the plague of leprosy in ... the land of your possession."


God "put the plague of leprosy" on the Canaanites. 14:34


God warns Aaron that he might have to burn him to death like he did his sons. (10:1-2) 16:1


God explains the use of scapegoats. It goes like this: Get two goats. Kill one. Wipe, smear, and sprinkle the blood around seven times. Then take the other goat, give it the sins of all the people, and send it off into the wilderness. 16:8-28


"Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities." 16:21-22


God is angry at the people for sacrificing to devils and going a whoring after them. Whoever does so must be exiled. 17:7-9


"Whosoever shall commit any of these abominations ... shall be cut off from among their people." 18:29


Don't eat sacrifices on the third day or God will cut you off from among your people. 19:6-8


If a man has sex with an engaged slave woman, scourge the woman, but don't punish the man. (Even if he raped her?) 19:20-22


"Whosoever ... giveth ... his seed unto Molech ... the people ... shall stone him with stones." 20:2


If you refuse to kill someone who gives his seed to Molech, God set his face against you and your family. 20:4-5


Stay away from people with familiar spirits and don't "go a whoring" after them either. 20:6


"For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." Couldn't we try spanking first? 20:9


Both parties in adultery shall be executed. 20:10


If a man has sex with his father's wife, kill them both. 20:11


If a man "lies" with his daughter-in-law, then both must be killed. 20:12


If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. 20:13


If you "lie" with your wife and your mother-in-law (now that sounds fun!), all three of your must be burned to death. 20:14


If a man or woman "lie with a beast" both the person and the poor animal are to be killed. 20:15-16


People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death. 20:27


A priest's daughter who "plays the whore" is to be burned to death. 21:9


Handicapped people cannot approach the altar of God. They would "profane" it. 21:16-23


Anyone with a "flat nose, or any thing superfluous" must stay away from the altar of God. 21:18


A man who is unclean, or is a leper, or has a "running issue", or "whose seed goeth from him", or who touches any dead or "creeping thing" ... "shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean." 22:3-5


No stranger or slave can "eat of the holy thing." 22:10, 13


"But if the priest buy any soul with his money ..." It must be OK to buy slaves; even priests do it. 22:11


If a priest's daughter marries "a stranger" she can't eat any holy things. 22:12


Don't do any work on the day of atonement or God will destroy you. 23:29-30


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." 24:10-23


Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community. 24:16


"He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death." 24:17


"If a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him." 24:19


"Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again." 24:20


"He that killeth a man, he shall be put to death." 24:21


God's instructions for buying your brother for a slave. 25:39


God tells the Israelites to make slaves out of their neighbors and their families. The "heathens" and "strangers" are to be their possessions forever. 25:44-46


God tells the Israelites to "chase" their enemies and make them "fall before you by the sword." He figures five of the Israelites will be able to "chase" a hundred of their enemies, and a hundred will be able to "put ten thousand to flight." 26:7-8


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


All "devoted" things (both man and beast) "shall surely be put to death." 27:28-29


Numbers


God shows his hospitality with the admonition: "The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 1:51, 3:10, 3:38


Two of Aaron's sons are killed by God for "offering strange fire before the Lord." 3:4


All firstborn men and beasts belong to God, since God killed all the firstborn of Egypt. 3:13


Don't touch or "go in to see when the holy things are covered." God kills people who touch or look at covered holy things. 4:15, 20


God tells the people to expel from camp "every leper, every one that hath an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead." So by God's instructions, the sick are abandoned and left to suffer and die alone. 5:1-4


The Law of Jealousies. If a man suspects his wife of being unfaithful, he reports it to the priest. The priest then makes her drink some "bitter water." If she is guilty, the water makes her thigh rot and her belly swell. If innocent, no harm done -- the woman is free and will "conceive seed." In any case, "the man shall be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity." 5:11-31


"And the spirit of jealousy come upon him ... and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him ... and she be not defiled."


If a husband is jealous, his wife must submit to the law of jealousies whether she was "defiled" or not. 5:14


"Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest ... And the priest shall ... set her before the LORD ... and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse." 5:15-17


"And the priest shall ... say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee ... be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse." 5:19


"Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell." 5:20-21


"But if ... some man have lain with thee beside thine husband ... The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell." 5:22


"And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse." 5:24


"And when he hath made her to drink the water ... if she be defiled ... the water that causeth the curse shall ... become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people." 5:27


"And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed." 5:28


"Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity." 5:31


The Israelites are God's favortite people, and the Levites are his favorites among the Israelites. 8:15-16


All firstborn Israelites, "both man and beast", belong to God. He got them the day that he killed every Egyptian firstborn child and animal. 8:17


If you don't keep the Passover you'll be "cut off" from your people. 9:13


The people begin to whine about not having any meat. So God says he'll give them meat, alright. He'll give them "flesh to eat," not for just a few days, but "for a whole month, until it come out of [their] nostrils, and it be loathsome to [them]." Yuck. 11:4, 19-20


"And while the flesh [of the quails] was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. "The Bible isn't too clear about what these poor folks did to upset God so much; all it says is that they had "lusted." 11:33


Miriam and Aaron (Moses' brother and sister) criticize Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman and thus breaking the law of God. But God makes it clear that his rules don't apply to his favorites, and he strikes Miriam with leprosy. Notice that only Miriam is punished, though both she and Aaron complained.  12:1, 9-10


More plagues and pestilence sent by God. God repeats one of his favorite promises: "your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness." 14:12, 29, 32-37


God punishes the children for the failings of their great-great grandfathers. 14:18


So Moses talked God out of killing everyone. He'll just see to it that no one over 20 years old survives the trip to Israel. Their "carcases shall fall in the wilderness." 14:20-35


God killed the ten spies that gave a discouraging report with a plague. 14:36-37


To further punish the Israelites for whining and plotting against Moses, God will send the Amelekites and Canaanites to smite them. 14:43-45


"If any soul sin through ignorance ..." but how can someone sin through ignorance? Don't you have to know that an action is wrong for it to be sinful? Oh well, if you do happen to sin through ignorance, you can be forgiven by God if you kill some animals. 15:27-30


The Israelites find a man picking up sticks on the sabbath. God commands them to kill him by throwing rocks at him. 15:32-36


Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, the first freethought/democracy martyrs, refused to follow Moses blindly, saying that everyone is holy and should be free to think for him or herself. God killed them and their families for daring to challenge Moses. 16:1-35


Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."


God warns everyone to get away; he's going to kill some more people. 16:20-21


"Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me ... if the LORD make ... the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit..."


Moses tells the people that if the ground opens up and swallows the rebels and their families, then you'll know that God's on his side. 16:28-30


"The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah ... They ... went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them." 16:31-33


"And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." 16:35


After burning the the 250 guys that offered incense, God tells Moses to keep their censers (because they are holy) to remind everyone not to offer incense without a license. 16:36-40


After God killed Korah, his family, and 250 innocent bystanders, the people complained saying, "ye have killed the people of the Lord." So God, who doesn't take kindly to criticism, sends a plague on the people. And "they that died in the plague were 14,700." 16:41-50


"Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment."


God threatens (again) to kill everyone (but his special friends, Moses and Aaron). 16:44-45


"For there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun ... they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred." 16:46-49


God threatens to kill those who murmur. To which the people reply, "Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish .... Shall we be consumed with dying?" 17:12-13


"They shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die."


Stay away from holy things and places -- like churches. God might have to kill you if you get too close. 18:3


God shows us how to make new friends by saying : "The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 18:7


God describes once again the procedure for ritualistic animal sacrifices. such rituals must be extremely important to God, since he makes their performance a "statute" and "covenant" forever. Why, then don't Bible-believers perform these sacrifices anymore? Don't they realize how God must miss the "sweet savour" of burning flesh? Don't they believe God when he says "forever"? 18:17-19


"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die." 18:22


"Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die." 18:32


"This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded."


These absurd rituals, cruel sacrifices, and unjust punishments are vitally important to God. They are to be "a perpetual statute" for everyone on earth. 19:1-22


Moses is punished for hitting the rock with his staff (like he did before in Exodus 17:6) to get water, rather than just speaking to the rock (as God asked him to do this time). For messing up the magic trick, Moses will never get to the promised land. 20:8-12


"And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities." This verse demonstrates the power of prayer: If you ask God, he will destroy entire cities for you. 21:3


God sends "fiery serpents" to bite his chosen people, and many of them die. 21:6


God delivers the Amorites into Moses' hands. (You're in God hands with Moses.) So Moses does the usual thing, killing everyone "until their was none left alive." 21:34-35


God says to Balaam, "If men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them." Men come, and Balaam goes with them, just as God had commanded. "And God's anger was kindled because he went" -- but he was just following God's instructions! 22:20-22


After the people "commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab," Moses has them all killed. Then God tells Moses to hang their dead bodies up in front of him; God says that this will satisfy him. 25:1-5


When one of the Israelite men brings home a foreign woman, "Phinehas (Aaron's grandson) sees them and throws a spear "through the man .. and the woman through her belly." This act pleases God so much that "the plague was stayed from the children of Israel." But not before 24,000 had died. 25:6-9


For impaling the interracial couple, God rewards Phinehas and his sons with the everlasting priesthood. 25:10-13


God tells Moses how to care for his neighbors by saying: "Vex the Midianites, and smite them." 25:16-17


The ground swallow Korah and his companions and a fire consumes 250 men. 26:10


"And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord." When you go camping avoid making any unusual fires. 26:61


God tells Moses to climb Mount Abarim, where he will see the promised land. After seeing it, Moses will die -- since he struck the rock to get water out of it (instead of just talking to it). See Num 20:6-12 27:12-14


Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! (Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins.) 31:1-54


"The prey that was taken, both of man and of beast" was offered as a "heave offering of the LORD." 31:26-29


God killed all the Egyptian firstborn. 33:4


God tells Moses to exterminate the residents of Canaan and destroy all of their religious symbols and possessions. 33:50-52


But if the Israelites don't kill them all, then God will make them pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides. And he will do unto the Israelites as he planned to do to the inhabitants of Canaan. 33:55-56


If a person accidentally kills someone, then she should go to a city of refuge. If she can get to the city of refuge before the "revenger of blood" (the victim's closest relative) can catch her, then she is safe, at least until the high priest dies (I don't know what he has to do with it). But if she is caught outside the city of refuge, then the revenger of blood can kill her. 35:11-12


"The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." The "revenger of blood" (the victim's closest relative) must murder the murderer just as soon as he sees him. 35:19, 21


"But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge ... and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood. Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest" If the accidental killer leaves the city of refuge and is caught by the revenger of blood, then the revenger can legally kill the accidental killer. 35:26-28


"Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death." 35:30


"The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." 35:33


Deuteronomy


"The Lord ... had slain Sihon ... and Og." 1:3-4


"God ... shall fight for you." 1:30


"The hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed."


God killed all the Israelite soldiers -- slowly. It took him 38 years to kill them all, but he finally got the job done. 2:14-16


"The Lord destroyed them before them" -- the general treatment of the people who were supposedly displaced by the Israelites. 2:21-22


"I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle." 2:24


All nations shall be terrorized by the followers of Yahweh. 2:25


God hardened the heart of the king of Heshbon and so that he could have him and all of his people killed. 2:30


At God's instructions, the Israelites "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain." 2:33-36


The Israelites, with God's help, kill all the men, women, and children of every city. 3:3-6


"And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city." 3:6


Moses promises Joshua that God will massacre kings and kingdoms for him, too. 3:21


When going to war, don't be afraid. God is on your side; "he shall fight for you." 3:22


"What God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works?" What other God can kill so many people? 3:24


God destroyed the followers of Baalpeor. 4:3


God is "a consuming fire, even a jealous God." 4:24


If someone makes an image of anything (like a bird or flower) then God will destroy the entire nation. 4:25-26


God brought the Israelites out of Egypt "by war ... and by great terrors." 4:34


God, by his own admission, is a jealous God who unjustly punishes great-great grandchildren for the failings of their long-dead ancestors. 5:9


"Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's ... manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's." In the Bible, slaves (servants in the KJV) are the rightful property of slave-owners; they are his possessions -- like an ox or an ass. 5:21


If you worship the wrong god, God will get jealous and kill you. 6:15


God instructs the Israelites to kill, without mercy, all the inhabitants (strangers) of the land that they conquer. 7:2


If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly." 7:4


God prefers the Israelites to everyone else. It's not that he's prejudiced, he just like them better. 7:6


God will kill those who hate him. 7:10


God's favorite people will never be infertile (neither will their cows!) and will never get sick. (God will send infertility and diseases on the other guys.) 7:14-15