I’m sorry, but this has to be the most pathetic attempt at bashing a Bible passage that I’ve ever seen. How is providing a place for someone to stay while they wait for their trial a bad thing? That is exactly what is done in every country. If someone in the US is on trial for murder, we keep them away from the public because they might be wrongfully killed if they are innocent. Do you have a problem with this? Or is it only when it’s in the Bible that it is a problem? And of course someone is to be put to death only after they have their trial. The purpose of the trial is to determine whether or not the person is guilty. I honestly cannot tell if you are joking or not. If I didn’t know any better I would think you were a Christian doing a parody to troll atheists.
There's a moral here - if you are going to kill somebody do not use anything metal or wooden or a rock, that would make you a murderer. Strangulation or poisoning is a far safer method because it seems you will not be considered a murderer.
Something just occured to me while reading your comment. God says he lives among them. God is a murderer. Were the cities of refuge just created so God could have somewhere to hang out where the avenger of blood wouldn't hassle him?
"...They must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest." I feel like there's a pretty big loophole for someone accused of murder right in that sentence.
@@toddfallon179 The real commandments are like these: If a woman tries to help her husband win a fight by grabbing the other man's genitals,she must have her hand cut off.Have no pity. ( Deut.25:12 )
I can't speak as to the times of Moses, but in Medieval times, an executioner's sword usually had inscribed on it, "cast in the name of God, ye not guilty." Essentially, if you were the executioner, and the person you were executing was genuinely innocent, you couldn't be held accountable for murder.
God very specifically said iron, stones and wood were murder. I guess if the executioner went with a bronze or copper type weapon he should be fine, or perhaps a rope. If all else fails God can just fall back on his typical double standard approach.
i think you are missing the point, the point is that if someone has the "intention" to kill.for no reason.doesnt matter by what ,means to be put to death, an accidental killing isnt murder,, that is why that Derek Chauvin dude should not be in prison,,he is only in prison for the same reason OJ is not.,that floyd guy drugged out.everyone knows it.
Africans say God bless you... Westerns say Bye... what is wrong with us westerns??? The West is so fucked up, dude. And whoever deny it is an hipocrite.
This is the way the priesthood and Aaron's descendants the privileged landholding on top of all the Gold and food offerings... seems more like the priests want all the good land and cities and sit back in luxury... wow the fundamentalist are right the mega Pastors win.
Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right??? May God bless you anyway.
@@SnarkyRC Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right??? May God bless you anyway.
@@Mar-dk3mp "live without attacking what you do not believe" alright, you first. Take a clue from your prophet and pick the straw out of your eye before criticizing others. Christians are obsessed with imposing the Bible on everybody and have the explicit objective of forcing the entire world to become Christian, if you keep imposing your ideas on others then we get to keep discusing them. You don't let us live our godless lives in peace in first place.
You have to remember that this particular book, Numbers, is the fourth book of the Bible and was written (supposedly) by Moses. He supposedly wrote the first five books, the Pentateuch. You are correct, God allegedly told all these things to Moses (always when Moses was alone, he never spoke to or revealed himself to the masses) and Moses passed them onto the Israelites, God's chosen people. The priests get a really easy ride, they get a percentage of all the offerings made by the people, all the animals and food etc. The priests were Moses sons - so not at all questionable then. Sounds very sketchy to me. Seems like nepotism was rife even back then.
By attempting to extrapolate the meaning of this ancient text without the guidance of the Tulmud sets you up to look like an ignominious. I would encourage you to dig a little deeper into the reasoning behind these laws. Also, to suggest that the Levites weren’t ‘part of the family’ is a gross assumption of a culture you seem to know very little about; the Levites housed the tribes of the priests and these lands were awarded to assist the Levites with making a livelihood while still honoring their exclusive obligations in the Temple.
Does this chapter push for killing of high priests cause three times it says you are basically locked up until the priest dies. So if you kill someone, make sure you follow that up with killing the high priest. Do only suicidal people apply to be high priest?
That was a weird combination of being oddly specific and frustratingly vague. Why are the murder weapons so specific? I have to assume they are just intended as examples, but it doesn’t actually say that. And then that last bit about not killing anyone ever. Does this only apply to killing Israelites? They are supposed to have slaughtered everyone in the towns, so there’s plenty of blood on the ground already. Presumably the bloody avenger guys are exempt, except this section talks about general bloodshed, not the murder that they are exempt from in their section.
Are you sure that the 2 witnesses requirement in Jehovah's witnesses does not exclude the victim? After all how can you believe someone who's caused this to happen to themselves?
Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right??? May God bless you anyway.
Here's a thought!! What if the murderer flees to the city of refuge and his relative goes up to Jerusalem and poisons the high priest. (Not one witness). He can then just go up to the city of refuge and say to his buddy. Pack your bags your free.
Not defending the Torah or anything, I do note that a lot of the building they seem to do at the time gets done with unhewn stones. I could imagine that when building a high wall, either someone could nudge a rock over the edge, or someone's crappy building left a rock to fall on someone standing too close. The moral here: stay away from the town walls themselves. People must really enjoy dropping rocks on people.
A lot if bible fables are badly merged different versions of the same story. This chapter sounds like it’s one of them. The men picking and mixing the fables are hopeless at editing.
...far be it from me to play at the 'advocatus diaboli' here, but interestingly, an 'avenger of blood' was like a kind of Wild Bill Hickock or Pat Mastterson for the goat herders... a combination bounty hunter, executioner, frontier tracker/Judge Judy kinda dude. He was legally responsible for hunting down convicts and disposing of them, not the families. However much fun it may be for a family of vigilantes to string up a dude like a piñata it wasn't considered polite And I must protest, good sir, to your assertion that a wooden object isn't considered lethal, having collected and studied, as a hobby, everything from prehistoric throwing sticks & spears (boomerangs ect) to oriental fighting staffs and shillelieghs... lethality is not the question 😉
Didn't anybody proof read that frikken book??? Oh that's right, nobody could read back then. It's like it was written by some sic year old's.... Do people really believe any of this absurd gibberish??
Well, a very great many people who should know better than to believe in a book that they have not read fully, do. The Believers do have their BuyBulls, and they do read their favorite cherry-picked verses, often with bits of tape as bookmakers.
@@Mar-dk3mp Don't know any of those, would Mormons qualify? Scientologists would definitely qualify. What about Catholics? Don't they believe in talking snakes and resurrections? Talk about idiots!!
Thanks for my weekly dose of biblical nonsense unravelled. Looking forward to the first chapter to actually have some real relevance to the world of the 21st Century, it seems to be a long time coming.
Something tells me they didn't understand a coma separated list yet when they wrote that! Anyone who strikes another with an object like a stone, iron rod, wooden club... resulting in their death, is a murderur. Would have made it much easier and concise.
1. Happy New Year, Hemant! 2. How much is a cubit? And "he" did say "around the town", so is one to assume that the town takes up the first 1000 cubits, and then the pasture lands are around it for 1000 cubits in each cardinal direction? 3. What happened to "Thou shalt not kill"? I men, MEH, God breaks that rule all the time, but still. 4. Okay, weird inconsistency: they mention iron, but not bronze. These are Bronze Age texts, or at least the oral tradition of the original thing would have come from no earlier than the Bronze Age. But they mention iron, which means that iron would have to have ben invented , AND already found in Palestine, by the time this version was written. Did you say you're using KJV? I can't remember. But it's definitely NOT the original oral tradition, or else I don't think they would even be able to mention iron, because they wouldn't have known what it was. I told you on Twitter: Religious Studies scholar, right? So we were trained to look for this kind of thing. This would be n outside-historical-context text, then. Look at me nerd out, LOL. 5. I know that Biblical Law doesn't (and shouldn't) translate into real life, but the unintended murder thing MIGH have been where we got the concept of manslaughter. I'd have to look into that. 6. It IS important in a legal sense to have corroborative evidence if it's available, but, say, if you kill my dad right in front of me, and I'm the only person who sees, well...they wouldn't take my testimony seriously anyway, because I'm a woman. I ALSO think it's two or three female witnesses to every one male witness, but that might come later on. 7. You: "I'm glad the rich can't just buy their way out of a punishment..." Me: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...oh...good joke. And THAT is how seriously America takes the Bible, eh?" 8. And I wonder if this outlaws honour killings (i.e. "You are a Levite and married my Benjaminite sister, so now I kill both of you") and mercy killings (i.e. kill the disabled infant before they can grow up to be a burden and to have a hard life, because THAT'S how we were--and still are--seen in some places and times).
I don't know about oral traditions, but these texts are definitely iron age, not bronze age. Numbers 35 is from the priestly source, which richard friedman dates to the time of hezekiah, well into the iron age, and which other scholars date even later. I'm not aware of anything in the old testament which distinguishes the testimony of male and females.
Weren't these towns already defiled by the spilling of blood of the previous residents by the Isrealites? Or does that not count? Also why should the death of the high priest automatically pardon any accused.
@@Mar-dk3mp I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Do you mean a "westerner"? What's wrong with a westerner talking about the Bible's rules regarding murder? I admire your attempt at speaking and writing English. It's better than I could do in another language, but please help me understand so we can discuss.
@@susansteinkraus2821 I know that you are western, godless and Souless wester (that is the logic, prove me wrong if you can or do not say anything please ☺️) Atheism is mainly from the west, and west is rich, so people prefer to worship Money, and money produce a materialistic societies... Plus we westerns are very arrogants trhgout God, but we are the worst humans, we created so many wars, so much dengerous tecnology, imperialism and so on. So we think to be at the place of God, that why we do not him... Plus most of those people are youths and youths tend to be Godless and Souless, and they do not care that according to that idea system it makes you not have objective morality, they do not know where they morals come from (because they do not know where their morals come from, right??), plus the Atheism makes you believe you will be nothing once death, but you do not think about that when you are young and strong, but much you get older and closer to the death you become more religious because God and the idea of an Afterlife is the only thing make you go ehaed... So basically you can not prove if there is a creation there is not a creator (can you??? Plaese answer this question with an answer not with another question if you can do) That why the West is so fucked up. Follow the money and bad church decision... By the way can ou prove God does not exist? Plus can you tell me where your morals are from?? Please answer I you can western godless and Souless person. Can you tell what comes from 0 (as you think the Big Bang was created by himself and not with an external Intervention) without using any external intervantion??? (Now let see western and godless logic and stupidity): I do not believe The "Phisics" exist, (of course I do but, let follow your logic) can you prove me with evidence it does?? Neither I believe in Astrology can you prove me with evidence it does not exist? May God Bless you ☺️...
Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right??? May God bless you anyway.
Well.... that was one of the most biased and ignorant critiques of the Bible that I have heard in a long time. I suggest you re-read your source material, then listen to your video... then try again.🙄
The ten commandments. Haha that's too damn funny. Those ten commandments are actually only three. They just simply repeat themselves with different words and different vernacular. There's only three commandments. Hell even George Carlin knew that
Thanks for watching and happy new year, everyone! Please donate if you can! www.patreon.com/hemant
Happy new year to you too and thank you for these videos. I love watching them all for not only education but entertainment
Should I say "God bless"? I don't think it would matter. Happy new year and thank you for everything.
Friendly Atheist Happy New Year 🥳
Happy New Year!!! Thank you for your content and may "god" bless.
I’m sorry, but this has to be the most pathetic attempt at bashing a Bible passage that I’ve ever seen. How is providing a place for someone to stay while they wait for their trial a bad thing? That is exactly what is done in every country. If someone in the US is on trial for murder, we keep them away from the public because they might be wrongfully killed if they are innocent. Do you have a problem with this? Or is it only when it’s in the Bible that it is a problem? And of course someone is to be put to death only after they have their trial. The purpose of the trial is to determine whether or not the person is guilty. I honestly cannot tell if you are joking or not. If I didn’t know any better I would think you were a Christian doing a parody to troll atheists.
There's a moral here - if you are going to kill somebody do not use anything metal or wooden or a rock, that would make you a murderer. Strangulation or poisoning is a far safer method because it seems you will not be considered a murderer.
lead bullets could also work
or drowning...
So samson didn't do any murder that time because he used an asses jaw, other times are still murder.
@@ThomasstevenSlater war isnt murder
and,the fist/hand is mentioned
Given that god did a lot of murder already, it makes total sense he'd help out fellow murderers. "Thou shalt not kill, unless they had it coming."
Something just occured to me while reading your comment. God says he lives among them. God is a murderer. Were the cities of refuge just created so God could have somewhere to hang out where the avenger of blood wouldn't hassle him?
@@willj1598 God can kill who and as many as he wants,rules do not apply, he is God
@@tim37857
Does that make him perfect!!!
@Tim M so that would mean that God wasn't exactly the role model that theist make him out to be?
@@patelk464
Correct!
"...They must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest."
I feel like there's a pretty big loophole for someone accused of murder right in that sentence.
I wonder if there were high priests that lived to be 100 years or more like Moses??
I wonder how many high priests managed to stand or walk below "accidently" falling boulders
I can't help but have the feeling the biblical definition of "inheritance" sounds like "self justified robbery".
The whole thing there about what constitutes "murder" is amazing. Simply incredible. You're telling me all this time, THIS is the book?
@The Great Gazoo Wait, westerns talking about murdering...🤣🤣🤣🤣
@The Great Gazoo Ah, but it's also full of rape.
The thou shall not kill commandment seems not to exist any more.
I think all of them are more polite suggestions than commandments, really 😆😅
Yeah it's always been on a case by case basis, otherwise God wouldn't be constantly commanding his sheeple to kill all throughout the bible
@@toddfallon179 The real commandments are like these: If a woman tries to help her husband win a fight by grabbing the other man's genitals,she must have her hand cut off.Have no pity. ( Deut.25:12 )
If jesus ever comes back, he better be packin' an AR-15 or he's titters!
@@mrcurly1147
But which version of jesus are we going to get and which version of jesus will Christians accept?
Those rules defining murder are incredibly broad. And it leads me to wonder how the executioners don't get defined as murderers.
I can't speak as to the times of Moses, but in Medieval times, an executioner's sword usually had inscribed on it, "cast in the name of God, ye not guilty." Essentially, if you were the executioner, and the person you were executing was genuinely innocent, you couldn't be held accountable for murder.
Stoning is generally a group effort....
God very specifically said iron, stones and wood were murder. I guess if the executioner went with a bronze or copper type weapon he should be fine, or perhaps a rope. If all else fails God can just fall back on his typical double standard approach.
Or the avengers...
I can't figure out what hurts my head more: the raging hangover or the ridiculous word salad of god.
And why did God make us so we like ethanol but then it makes us feel terrible the next day? He's such a jerk
Yes
This is why I always use an object made of plastic for my fatal blows
I send a MMA fighter to do my dirty work.
Or play with fuel air bombs
i think you are missing the point, the point is that if someone has the "intention" to kill.for no reason.doesnt matter by what ,means to be put to death, an accidental killing isnt murder,, that is why that Derek Chauvin dude should not be in prison,,he is only in prison for the same reason OJ is not.,that floyd guy drugged out.everyone knows it.
I use poison to murder! Nanana nana!!!
@@Bob-of-Zoid fear the plastic mallet
The coolest thing about The Mose were his horns after he came down from the mountain . Also the shiny face . Very striking .
Numbers 35 - Moses check: Still alive, somehow.
You'll be waiting a while.
@@FriendlyAtheist1 I know, I'm just doing the moses check/countdown
@@TheMostAwesomeMan2424 *Begins to re-think this moses check sthick*
@@Dorvin55 It takes God a reeeeeaaalllly long time to get around to killing the people he wants dead.
*Darn Holy Dial Up"
It sounds like God didn't consult a lawyer when creating these rules as they are full of strange anomalies and contains contradictions.
Happy New Year! Keep up the good work = thanks for all your posts!
Africans say God bless you... Westerns say Bye... what is wrong with us westerns??? The West is so fucked up, dude. And whoever deny it is an hipocrite.
This is the way the priesthood and Aaron's descendants the privileged landholding on top of all the Gold and food offerings... seems more like the priests want all the good land and cities and sit back in luxury... wow the fundamentalist are right the mega Pastors win.
If planes had existed at the time, they would have had a whole fleet of luxury private jets.
The "avenger of blood" sounds really cool, like a biblical Judge Dredd.
I am the law!
Sounds like a character in "Astro City."
Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right???
May God bless you anyway.
@@SnarkyRC Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right???
May God bless you anyway.
@@Mar-dk3mp "live without attacking what you do not believe" alright, you first. Take a clue from your prophet and pick the straw out of your eye before criticizing others. Christians are obsessed with imposing the Bible on everybody and have the explicit objective of forcing the entire world to become Christian, if you keep imposing your ideas on others then we get to keep discusing them. You don't let us live our godless lives in peace in first place.
Thank you for the Wholly Fables humor. I needed a good laugh before new year breakfast.
Revenge is not justice
Who say so??? For God it is.
Ok, so: iron, stone and wooden weapons are bad, but steel weapons and lead bullets are perfectly fine.
Silver bullets?
I love 'numbers' ow let me correct myself ...I love to hear FA reading them ;)
I'm getting kind of numb to Numbers.
Check out the age of reason, by Thomas Paine.
Once again, the priests wrote a book that tells everyone else to give stuff to the priests
You have to remember that this particular book, Numbers, is the fourth book of the Bible and was written (supposedly) by Moses. He supposedly wrote the first five books, the Pentateuch. You are correct, God allegedly told all these things to Moses (always when Moses was alone, he never spoke to or revealed himself to the masses) and Moses passed them onto the Israelites, God's chosen people. The priests get a really easy ride, they get a percentage of all the offerings made by the people, all the animals and food etc. The priests were Moses sons - so not at all questionable then. Sounds very sketchy to me. Seems like nepotism was rife even back then.
By attempting to extrapolate the meaning of this ancient text without the guidance of the Tulmud sets you up to look like an ignominious. I would encourage you to dig a little deeper into the reasoning behind these laws. Also, to suggest that the Levites weren’t ‘part of the family’ is a gross assumption of a culture you seem to know very little about; the Levites housed the tribes of the priests and these lands were awarded to assist the Levites with making a livelihood while still honoring their exclusive obligations in the Temple.
I like how the "Avenger of Blood" doesn't have to be defined or described.
Can I get that on my resumé?
Does this chapter push for killing of high priests cause three times it says you are basically locked up until the priest dies. So if you kill someone, make sure you follow that up with killing the high priest.
Do only suicidal people apply to be high priest?
CSI Palestine. 'Well,' puts on sunglasses, 'Guess he threw the first stone.'
That was a weird combination of being oddly specific and frustratingly vague.
Why are the murder weapons so specific? I have to assume they are just intended as examples, but it doesn’t actually say that.
And then that last bit about not killing anyone ever. Does this only apply to killing Israelites? They are supposed to have slaughtered everyone in the towns, so there’s plenty of blood on the ground already. Presumably the bloody avenger guys are exempt, except this section talks about general bloodshed, not the murder that they are exempt from in their section.
And I am supposed to get my morals and ethics from this book?
Happy New Year ✌Good luck everybody! 😁
This is obviously an effort to suppress the cycle of revenge. The Hebrews must have been Hatfield & McCoy-ing constantly...
I guess Thou shall not kill has lost all meaning?
Hold your horses: If somebody kills someone ACCIDENTALLY it is not murder!
Great post. How messed up is all that shit.
Happy new years
Sounds like the Black Adam Avenger mode of punishment!
I killed black Adam last night. He died like a punk. Everyone laughed.
Are you sure that the 2 witnesses requirement in Jehovah's witnesses does not exclude the victim? After all how can you believe someone who's caused this to happen to themselves?
Deuteronomy - Dude, there on to me.
Guess god has no thoughts on killing with guns. Almost like an "all knowing god" didn't know they would exist in the future
Great video
Thanks
Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right???
May God bless you anyway.
Thank you so much for this! It's very appreciated :)
Yahweh's making an awful lot of concessions for murderers, it seems!
Or maybe I should not be so surprised 😉
What's that saying? - Birds of a feather flock together.
Late but here
2000 cubit radius is not very much land for grazing. Only 3000 ft or so from the walls
Concerning the death of Jesus: "Truly no man can ransom another or give to God the price of his life." (Psalms 49:7 )
Just like there is the "Tiger Rule," in Golf, there is the "Jesus Rule," in The New Testament.
Mosses days are numbered...punt intended 🤣😂😅
And just like that YHWH Really made the first Leviton.
Here's a thought!! What if the murderer flees to the city of refuge and his relative goes up to Jerusalem and poisons the high priest. (Not one witness). He can then just go up to the city of refuge and say to his buddy. Pack your bags your free.
If real church service was thus entertaining!
Church services usually have music, don't they? Hermant needs to sing a few hymns.
Not defending the Torah or anything, I do note that a lot of the building they seem to do at the time gets done with unhewn stones. I could imagine that when building a high wall, either someone could nudge a rock over the edge, or someone's crappy building left a rock to fall on someone standing too close. The moral here: stay away from the town walls themselves. People must really enjoy dropping rocks on people.
Wooden objects can be dangerous. e.g. baseball bats.
Interresting idea that these refugee-cities were for people awaiting trial. I don't see it in the text, but an interresting interpretation nontheless.
So .... poison is okay in goods eye?
A lot if bible fables are badly merged different versions of the same story. This chapter sounds like it’s one of them. The men picking and mixing the fables are hopeless at editing.
Pooe Kelly she has no God... she always commenting, but none cares about her...
@@Mar-dk3mp says the moronic spammer, get a life.
And if I kill an attacker with a stone in self defense it's still considered murder...?
Metal, stone & wooden weapons are a no-no, so, does that mean bone weapons are OK? Sampson will be pleased.
who knew malice aforethought was a biblical term 😨😨
...far be it from me to play at the 'advocatus diaboli' here, but interestingly, an 'avenger of blood' was like a kind of Wild Bill Hickock or Pat Mastterson for the goat herders... a combination bounty hunter, executioner, frontier tracker/Judge Judy kinda dude. He was legally responsible for hunting down convicts and disposing of them, not the families. However much fun it may be for a family of vigilantes to string up a dude like a piñata it wasn't considered polite
And I must protest, good sir, to your assertion that a wooden object isn't considered lethal, having collected and studied, as a hobby, everything from prehistoric throwing sticks & spears (boomerangs ect) to oriental fighting staffs and shillelieghs... lethality is not the question 😉
Cricket bats
Didn't anybody proof read that frikken book??? Oh that's right, nobody could read back then.
It's like it was written by some sic year old's.... Do people really believe any of this absurd gibberish??
Well, a very great many people who should know better than to believe in a book that they have not read fully, do. The Believers do have their BuyBulls, and they do read their favorite cherry-picked verses, often with bits of tape as bookmakers.
Yes, we do. Any problem western godless and souless idiots???
@@Mar-dk3mp Don't know any of those, would Mormons qualify? Scientologists would definitely qualify. What about Catholics? Don't they believe in talking snakes and resurrections? Talk about idiots!!
Thanks for my weekly dose of biblical nonsense unravelled. Looking forward to the first chapter to actually have some real relevance to the world of the 21st Century, it seems to be a long time coming.
None of them are relevant today.
Well, you could be building a wall and drop a rock on someone working on the other side.
Wall building does seem a popular theistic hobby.
So yeah.
Only 14 weeks left until the story of Jesus!
How do you figure that? There are 46 books in the OT.
@@visaman through the power of prophecy, of course!
@@mrcombustiblelemon2902 Of course.
Something tells me they didn't understand a coma separated list yet when they wrote that!
Anyone who strikes another with an object like a stone, iron rod, wooden club... resulting in their death, is a murderur. Would have made it much easier and concise.
I'd assume the original wasn't developed enough and later translations just kept the convoluted phrasing because gawd's infallible word.
And the Lord said, Harken Into the voice of this Atheist, and for sure your soul will be saved! And all the Believers of this truth Say Amen 😁
1. Happy New Year, Hemant!
2. How much is a cubit? And "he" did say "around the town", so is one to assume that the town takes up the first 1000 cubits, and then the pasture lands are around it for 1000 cubits in each cardinal direction?
3. What happened to "Thou shalt not kill"? I men, MEH, God breaks that rule all the time, but still.
4. Okay, weird inconsistency: they mention iron, but not bronze. These are Bronze Age texts, or at least the oral tradition of the original thing would have come from no earlier than the Bronze Age. But they mention iron, which means that iron would have to have ben invented , AND already found in Palestine, by the time this version was written. Did you say you're using KJV? I can't remember. But it's definitely NOT the original oral tradition, or else I don't think they would even be able to mention iron, because they wouldn't have known what it was. I told you on Twitter: Religious Studies scholar, right? So we were trained to look for this kind of thing. This would be n outside-historical-context text, then. Look at me nerd out, LOL.
5. I know that Biblical Law doesn't (and shouldn't) translate into real life, but the unintended murder thing MIGH have been where we got the concept of manslaughter. I'd have to look into that.
6. It IS important in a legal sense to have corroborative evidence if it's available, but, say, if you kill my dad right in front of me, and I'm the only person who sees, well...they wouldn't take my testimony seriously anyway, because I'm a woman. I ALSO think it's two or three female witnesses to every one male witness, but that might come later on.
7. You: "I'm glad the rich can't just buy their way out of a punishment..."
Me: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...oh...good joke. And THAT is how seriously America takes the Bible, eh?"
8. And I wonder if this outlaws honour killings (i.e. "You are a Levite and married my Benjaminite sister, so now I kill both of you") and mercy killings (i.e. kill the disabled infant before they can grow up to be a burden and to have a hard life, because THAT'S how we were--and still are--seen in some places and times).
I don't know about oral traditions, but these texts are definitely iron age, not bronze age. Numbers 35 is from the priestly source, which richard friedman dates to the time of hezekiah, well into the iron age, and which other scholars date even later.
I'm not aware of anything in the old testament which distinguishes the testimony of male and females.
A cubit is about the length from your elbow to your finger tip.
@@SnarkyRC so the Levites probably sent the man with the longest arms to measure the land.
Weren't these towns already defiled by the spilling of blood of the previous residents by the Isrealites? Or does that not count?
Also why should the death of the high priest automatically pardon any accused.
The High Priest was the ruler, when he died, the rules died with him.
@Albert Giesbrecht God was suppose to be the giver of rules. So why should rules die with the death of the high priest? Makes no sense.
Numbers 35? I thought 35 was 1 number 🤷
So, I guess if I use poison or strangulation, rather than a stone or a wooden object, it's not murder...?
A western talking about murder? ridicolous... The west is fucked up.
@@Mar-dk3mp I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Do you mean a "westerner"? What's wrong with a westerner talking about the Bible's rules regarding murder? I admire your attempt at speaking and writing English. It's better than I could do in another language, but please help me understand so we can discuss.
@@susansteinkraus2821 I know that you are western, godless and Souless wester (that is the logic, prove me wrong if you can or do not say anything please ☺️)
Atheism is mainly from the west, and west is rich, so people prefer to worship Money, and money produce a materialistic societies...
Plus we westerns are very arrogants trhgout God, but we are the worst humans, we created so many wars, so much dengerous tecnology, imperialism and so on. So we think to be at the place of God, that why we do not him... Plus most of those people are youths and youths tend to be Godless and Souless, and they do not care that according to that idea system it makes you not have objective morality, they do not know where they morals come from (because they do not know where their morals come from, right??), plus the Atheism makes you believe you will be nothing once death, but you do not think about that when you are young and strong, but much you get older and closer to the death you become more religious because God and the idea of an Afterlife is the only thing make you go ehaed... So basically you can not prove if there is a creation there is not a creator (can you??? Plaese answer this question with an answer not with another question if you can do) That why the West is so fucked up. Follow the money and bad church decision...
By the way can ou prove God does not exist?
Plus can you tell me where your morals are from?? Please answer I you can western godless and Souless person.
Can you tell what comes from 0 (as you think the Big Bang was created by himself and not with an external Intervention) without using any external intervantion???
(Now let see western and godless logic and stupidity): I do not believe The "Phisics" exist, (of course I do but, let follow your logic) can you prove me with evidence it does??
Neither I believe in Astrology can you prove me with evidence it does not exist?
May God Bless you ☺️...
The LORD said, the LORD said, so I’ll expect something sensible words will come out but 😅😂😮
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If you killed someone by accident then it wasn't intentional. As in a workplace accident. Seems plausible 🤷
The joke is on ewe ...
oh wow the book of deontology is coming soon
Hemant or friendly atheist Interesting form of stupid things to explain murders.
Why you western godless and souless idiots are so obsessed with the Bible, with God and so on? live you western godless and souless idiot without attacking what you do not even believe right???
May God bless you anyway.
Well.... that was one of the most biased and ignorant critiques of the Bible that I have heard in a long time.
I suggest you re-read your source material, then listen to your video... then try again.🙄
I suggest you mind your own business.
@@teresah268 well said Teresa 🤣.
I think this might be a parody video to troll atheists
The ten commandments. Haha that's too damn funny. Those ten commandments are actually only three. They just simply repeat themselves with different words and different vernacular. There's only three commandments. Hell even George Carlin knew that
If you lived to be 100 and posted each and every day, you could not list all of the things wrong with the Bible!
Ok, so: iron, stone and wooden weapons are bad, but steel weapons and lead bullets are perfectly fine.
Or... Bronze, a metal that actually existed around that time. To be a real smart ass: Steel is made out of iron.
Thanks