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I'm looking forward to it.. sad you can't be there. And yes, I will be supporting your channel again soon as I can fix my account. Hackers emptied my old bank account and impersonated me too.. left me near homeless. But ol peejay is back jack and soon I'll be good as new .
As an ex-evangelical, I really appreciate the effort, content and time that goes into these vids. Hope I live long enough to see The Friendly Atheist do the last chapter of Revelation. (Hope he lives long enough as well....)
That crackpot, old J. Vernon McGee, did his Buy-bull Bus series in 5 years, sanitizing what this wacky anthology had to say. He'd use his southern accent and "preacher's authority" to convince folks that this "god" was "right-chee-us!" and "we" need to follow "him". McGee is dead now, but his shtick lives on for the hard of thinking. Hopefully Hemant will undo most of the damage that these evangelists have done by not actually READING, but MANGLING the nonsense in the bible.
The thing about Aaron's other two sons being punished for making fire wrong is so obviously the kind of warping religious people do when describing ordinary events. A mistake when using flammable oils causes some people to burn to death and instead of it being "fire is dangerous so be more careful" it's "This was clearly God's wrath for getting the ceremony wrong.". It's like when Christians after the fact describe successful events as caused by God's grace and unsuccessful events as caused by God's wrath.
Funny that I, as an atheist, am opposed to abortion because I don't think people should kill each other and I feel if we can't agree on when they become people perhaps we should err on the side of caution. God, who is allegedly at the root of the pro-life movement, whacks anything that looks at him wrong or gets in his way on a bad day
Yes their relationship with Yahweh is definitely an abusive one. And if it was any other situation like this people would tell you to run and keep running.
Thank you Hemant for your commitment in continuing this essential Bible reading series. Having started at Genesis 1, and now 120 chapters later we have arrived at Numbers 3. We are grateful to you for persisting through these bloody, violent, and myth based narratives with us, revealing that the Bible is not the greatest story ever told, but rather the most rudimentary, bloody, and haunting.
Here, Here! Cheers Jeanine. I recall being told to watch "The Ten Commandments" for homework. My Gran laughed all the way through and pointed out many errors from the Original Novel. If the book is Fiction, then the Movie can be even more Fictiony as well.
@@tomsenior7405 Hello Tom! I assume you are speaking of the Charleston Heston version? Unfortunately that film portrayed glammed up, and completely different characters and narrative than what is told in the barbaric rudimentary buybull.
@@jeanine219 Yes it was good old Gun Loving Heston. My main lesson from the Movie was that people will accept whatever Bible Story they are given. Even if it is Glammed up with with different Characters and not told as portrayed in the 'good' book. it seems it doesn't matter. Heck if such garbage was endorsed by our RE Teachers, then what is the point of Canon? My conclusion; As long as Christians get their "Feels" then the truth doesn't matter.
"Anyone that approaches the sanctuary shall be put to death" I think we need more info on this. How close can you get? Is there a demarcation line? What if you were walking by or passing through? If you approach area 51 there is a fence that tells you that you'll get shot if you cross it.
All God needed was motion detectors. Anyone triggering one of these and causing the doors to the tabernacle to automatically open would be met with an instant kill.
David Kent Did you miss “Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law - over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it.”
@@Daniel-cz7kd I read that part, but you lay out a rule and dont give context a lot of problems can arise. I can be on the east side of the U.S. and head west, I'm heading in the direction of California, I'm technically approaching California, but still thousands of miles away. It's like in Gremlins, don't feed them after midnight! Then when can I feed them as 8 a.m. is technically after midnight. I think when you write a book you should outline it so you don't ramble on and hit all the important points.
@@davidkent5626 I was thinking the same thing. I bet the authors left it vague on purpose to give themselves a blank check to murder anyone they wanted and claim "he was approaching the magic place!"
@@davidkent5626 Well done, so you must have read the part where Moses, Aaron and his sons where encamped on the east side of the tabernacle; do you need more context?
@@boomanchu2 you are not understanding the concept of the Bible being overlapped wiling mythology. We know that Rituals to worship Dionysus involved wine and bread like the last supper. Osiris has a shepherds hooked staff like the “good shepherd” so one would expect Jesus to be a shepherd or grape farmer but not so. The evidence suggests that the father was Yusef the husband of Miriyam legally but she could have been raped by a Roman then many religious ppl say it was a form of a God or 1/3 of a God called the wind in Hebrew or Holy Spirit in English. I obviously have no way to know the answer 100%.
@@Daniel-cz7kd which is the Unholy bible? Every bible. Because they are said to be holy, and they're not. the term "holy" means nothing. And if something is not holy, it is unholy
Damn, the writers missed a wonderful opportunity: to name every one of the thousands just counted. Numbers is obviously written to bore all readers to death and failed.
Finally peejay ( the real me) has come back... 🔙 to the Friendly Atheist! I've missed you, Hemant. I've been missing these bible studies. Everything wrong with - is my favorite still.
Having just watched a breakdown of the 2 second F1 racing pit stop yesterday, I am now envisioning the tabernacle being taken down and put up during the 40 years of wandering in this way.... "Kid, this is your tent peg.... Make sure you're in place for the speed assembly and don't lose it while we're walking.... Your cousin will be right there with the hammer for that one peg, and your uncle will have the rope it holds down.... " 😂🤷♀️
A couple of stuff I think you will be interested in (as an ex religious jew): You talked a couple of times about the two sons of Aaron that were killed by god. In the jewish tradition you should read one section of the Torah (which is called parasha, but I don't know the translation to English) every shabat (with exceptions) and so you will read all the Torah every year. One of those "Parasha"s is called "After the death of" because it starts with the saying that god killed them. So this fact is well know, even to kids. You calulated that every family had at least 45 children. It makes sense with the legend that each birth was of 6 children every time for the israelites in egypt. The ceremony of "buying" the first born back from god is done by taking 5 coins made of silver and giving them to someone from the bloodline of Aaron, and most people don't have such coins, so they buy them from the priest at around 50$. Priests in jewdaizm are not Rabbis, they are just from the bloodline of Aaron, if that bloodline wasn't corrupted by marrying a women who got divorced or in many other ways.
Hi, I have questions I hope you are willing to take the time and answer. In the jewish tradition and not what is thrown around..why did God kill Aaron's sons?? Why did God forbid Moses from entering the holy land? Why was God ok with Moses breaking the tablets? Do jews really think that Moses is half God? How come God was ok that Moses married a cushite? I hope you can answer me.. thank you
@@hocuspocus123 wow, those are a lot of questions. I'll try to answer them tomorrow (in my timezone it's after midnight right now). But I can answer the easy one right now, I never met anyone that thinks that Moses is half God. A part of the problem for Jews with Christianity is the idea that God can become a human and "enter" the material world as a creature in it.
@@hocuspocus123 In the jewish tradition God killed Aaron's sons because of a couple of reasons (different traditions, which are said to not be contridictory but both to be the saying of god) One is that they were drunk while sacrificing, and you can learn it from the text because god told Aaron afterwards to not be drunk when serving God. The other reason is that they were very knowledgeable in the sayings of God, and so they preached to the people infront of they betters (Moshe and Aaron), so they got punished for this. This resoning is being used endlessly to tell people that they should never contradict their elders or rabbis, or teachers. My father is a rabbi, and while I was growing up it was always said to me that it's wrong to talk back to him or to say anything that might sound like I contredict him, or anything that might sound like I want to teach people because it will be prideful like the way that the two sons of Aaron acted. God forbade Moses from entering the holy land for a number of reasons (just like the previous case). One is that him entering to the holy land must be when the israelites would be ready for the redemption, because of how pure he is. Another is that he have done somwthing wrong in the eyes of the lord, at Numbers 20 8 God tells Moses that for giving the israelites water he needs to go and talk to a rock that will give them water, and he struck the rock insted (which of course made water to come out of the rock), so god told him that for this show of a lack of faith in god he would be punished by dying without getting into Israel. Another one is that by tradition (and by Deuteronomy 1 35-39) except 2 righteous man no one of the people that came from Egypt will go into the promise land. And Moses was 120 years old at that time, so for all the people that are currently alive from the israelites Moses is the cool duded that talks to god and breaks the sea and generates water from rock and a whole bunch of miracles, so they will see him as a kind of a god and might worship him insted of worshiping god, so he must not enter for them to have a better chance of serving god. About why god was OK with Moses breaking the tablets there is an abundance of reasons, One is that once Moses got close to people the israelites worshiping the calf the holiness of the tablets was gone, so there was no reason for him to keep holding them. Another is that the tablets were too heavy for him to carry, but the words written on them carried the tablets by themselves, and when Moses got close to the israelites and the calf the words literraly flew away from the stone, and so Moses couldn't hold them anymore. About Moses marrying a cushite, it's a subject that no matter how I'll address it will sound very very racist, so I'll just say in advance that I don't belive that what I say is true, nor that one race is superior or inferior. The word cushite is the female way of saying cushi, which in Hebrew is used as a slur for saying black people. Moses maried a midianite woman, as you can see in Exodus 2 21. Moses siblings talked about the cushite wife he took in Numbers 12 1, but according to a lot of interpertrs of the Torah (I think it's even mentioned in the Talmud, but I'm not certain. it was definitely written hundrends of years before the Talmud) that this saying was a "Sagi Naor" which basically means that they are saying the oposite. And because that being black makes you look horible, that by saying he has a cushite wife they acctually meant that he had a beautiful wife. and they gossiped about it because that how can he have a beautiful wife and serve god. After all of this, you should know that for every quistion you asked I am 100% certain that people argued about it for years and years, and you can put a 5 hours lecture only of the different ways of interperting the relevant passages and their meaning. And I only put here a tiny bit of it, and I already invested way to much time in it. Hope you find this informative enough.
@@hodsinay6969 you really took the time to answer me.. I am so thankful 🙏 I completely understand what you are saying about how many interpretations each passage has. I have read the Torah and the rest of Tanakh, didn't read the Talmud yet but I think I should as most of the interpretation are there as I have been told, and I need to understand what is there that is not available to us readily. I don't know where you stand in your beliefs but for me I dropped religion a long time ago and just want to understand the roots of the 3 Abrahamic religions and how the Torah and the main characters interpreted especially in third and forth reading. Thanks again!
Actually with the number of people who had to take care of the sanctuary it would be a pretty gravy job, especially once they got settled, especially if you consider the life of the common folk of the day.
The missing 300 died in an epic battle near some hot springs while fighting of the vast armies of Logic and Reason. Only one returned but sadly died near the Isrealites' camp when making fire the wrong way.
I must confess I do not remember the dimensions given in previous chapters for the tent of meeting, the tabernacle etc but I find it hard to believe there would be enough work involved in maintaining and cleaning them to keep so many thousands of people gainfully employed on a permanent basis.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 Not sure what you mean. I should apply a little logic to a story which defies all logic? Over a million people wandering about in a desert for over 40 years when the journey should have taken just a few weeks apparently finding sufficient food and water to sustain themselves despite being in a desert. Tell me where the three million litres of water per day came from.
@@andystokes8702 Andy, you are the same guy that thinks a mask stops viral transmission & there are more than 2 genders..& you are going to try to talk to others about “logic” just lol. What a joke.
Nadab and Abihus' Mother asks: Hey! Has anyone seen Nadab and Abihu around today? The reply: No! They got killed by God yesterday for using the wrong fire. Nadab and Abihus' Mother: Oh! That’s okay then, I was just wondering where they were. When God kills so many of his chosen favourite people they just seem to chalk it up as an everyday blasé occurrence.
I love how the bible retcons itself with things like "YOUR FIRSTBORN IS MINE" eventually becoming, "We had a contract negotiation and we are going to replace firstborns with the population of the various cities of Levites."
Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu were burned alive by the yahweh god when they made an offering with unauthorized fire? So even the fire itself had to be authorized by this war god?
@@natsusatsujinki8342 That is an interesting interpretation. In my opinion based on the most current archeological evidence, the Torah was likely written and assembled by priests, scribes, and leaders of Judaism around the 5th to 4th century post exile period BCE. I believe it was extracted and pieced together from Hebrew oral myths and traditions, embellished, edited. I think they intended it to ultimately serve as a useful written and permanent template for patriarchal priests and religious leaders of Judaism to extract what they wanted from their religious patrons, using promotional stories of an extremely vengeful, violent and bloody god ......fear tactics just as in a ruthless dictatorship with Yahweh being the invisible dictator, and the Judaistic leaders being his representatives and beneficiaries.
It is unbelievable that the bible should be called "literature". Not speak of those who considder it the greatest piece of literature in human history. Every comic book has a better style of writing. 🤣
@@dragowolfraven3806 The Bible is so obviously man written.I would expect much,much more from a so-called supernatural God. His holy book should be far superior than anything humans could write-enough to blow everybody's mind.
My brother was redeemed, so was his son, and my firstborn kid, all on the same Hebrew date 42 years apart. It’s a lovely ceremony, redeeming the firstborn. Don’t knock it.
2:54 in fairness, thou shall not kill is generally interpreted as "though shall not kill when it is against the law" aka murder. And since god makes all the rules what that effectively means is "thou shall not kill unless told otherwise".
I was always taught not to round off numbers before doing a calculation, because the outcome would be off by too much. First do the maths, then round off the outcome. They would have needed to round off their numbers, because by the time they finally reached the end of the chapters, with their endless repetitions, some people would have died and new ones would be born.
Like I said last time, all these names listed and the repeating of the same thing over and over reminds me of a kid in school trying to hit a word count. "I'll just list random names or explain how we counted every single group every time and I'll be to enough words in no time!"
I would say that of the whole book, yes, every verse "the name of the guy is Bob and Bob is the name of the guy and I am god your lord because I am your lord, blah, blah, blah." This God would fail any basic English composition class for sure.
I love how god talks to his Bible characters. When I was still following my birthright born into Christianity, I gave up my voice of logic and gave the intelligence I possess to god. God led my words. Now no god or voice of god in my head were puppeteering me. But the brainwashing I went through caused me to give my own brain to God. I take back all the credit that I have given god credit for. There is no Loving God. If there was a loving god, this god would not make you wait until you are dead to have a safe place to live.
The fact that when good things are attributed to god's good will, and bad things happen because "it was god's plan" makes them indistinguishable from "things just happen".
Yeah.And he keeps telling them that he's the God that took them out of Egypt.He held that over their heads for so damn long it makes me want to throw rocks at the sky! Unconditional love anyone??
@@shriggs55 Even my kids, 35 and 31, have informed me that the statute of limitations for pointing out that "I gave birth to 2 almost 9-pound babies" has run out.
So excited and grateful that someone as intelligent as you is doing this to enlighten others to the metaphorical-myth like tales of this book…some good things in here and some really bad. Lol! I am soo looking forward to Revelation!😂😊🤣
Interesting that between the many many MANY males named so far, I have not been able to see anyone with the same name. I might have missed something, but they all seem to have different names. Take a random group of 100 people. There will be plenty of overlap in their names. Not so much in the bible. What are the odds that no one else was also named Moses.
@@chrismassey7563 The VAST MAJORITY of Jewish and Christian scholars have come to the conclusion that there is no evidence for the existence of Moses or the Exodus and a great deal of evidence to contradict both, including that so many people moving through the desert together for decades would have left quite a bit behind to be found and NOTHING has ever been found.
@@chrismassey7563 Sounds more like editing. "So you've named your main character Bruce Micheal Smith?" "Well, lots of people are named that so it stands to reason..." "Hardly memorable though, eh? Have you tried something unique, like uh, Twazzwilligar Evilington? People will remember that Twazz is an important guy."
When god killed all the first born in Egypt was there an age limit? I mean the pharoah was probably a first born son. If the father in a family was a first born was he killed along with his own first born? How did this work? What were the rules?
he killed all the firstborn. period. it doesn't say firstborn sons. However, this is just another example of how god disrespected women since they didn't get to be killed. and he killed all the firstborn cattle, sheep, you name it. probably the nile was full of first born male fish bodies floating belly up. But really, this is a literary theme; the pharoah killed the first born children back when moses was a babe, now god gets revenge and kills the egyptians and later Herod kills the jewish babies, of course that would only have been males since they were the only the ones who would threaten his authority. I doubt women realized how lucky they were to not count. haha
cgirl111 The babies god killed in Egypt where all Israelite boys, as for age limit, what is written is right after birth, after any baby boy, so basically the toddler age.
How in the hell are those tribes supposed to maintain those tent decorations when only the sons of Aaron are going to be allowed to go there without being put to death??
We all know by now just how dangerous it was to work for god, back in the Day. Where is god now? We see false Prophets and vitriol spouting Pastors becoming filthy rich. What happened to all the smoting? Once Upon a Time god Smote this person, Then he smote that City, then he Smote 'til the Cows came Home. Come on god, pull your finger out. Start smoting your bad employees again. We know you have a lot to choose from, but seeing the worst offenders smoted Live on Air... It may help turn your plummeting figures around.
Ha ha. Such great humor. And along the same lines, why does god seem to be exclusively "smoting" the over 250,000 children globally who die from starvation each month? While so many evil dictators, serial killers, pedephiles, drug cartel participants, damaging con-artists, etc live relatively long comfortable lives? Statistically there is no difference between the misfortune that befalls the innocent vs the most vile. That can be translated as no signs of intervention from alleged benevolent invisible gods.
@@jeanine219 Nice one. Let me see. According to the "Apologetics Bumper Book of Explanations for Boys", the answer is: God's Plan... Mysterious Ways... Jingle the Keys... Look at the Trees... Burn in Hell... Aha! here it is: "I am The Lord Thy God. Shut your Face".
@@tomsenior7405 🤣 Those apologists have it so easy. A multiple choice script of several word homilies, and that’s all they got. No knowledge of science, empirical evidence, philosophical pondering, logic or deductive reasoning needed.
The all loving God freed them from slavery and then held them prisoners in the desert, feeding them the same prison food everyday until all those he "freed" died.
@@Daniel-cz7kd yes but reason not matter. Definition of prisoners is people who are confined against their will. This and other passages shows a vindictive God who will not let his people forget that he loves to kill anyone that does not follow his rules or trust him. He ensures that they do not forget by making them celebrate his love of killing of first born every year. Maybe creationist will someday explain how all 3m people and livestock managed a 1000km trek over 40 days considering the Egyptian were supposed to be starving the people. Or how the population grew from 70 to 600,000 over 450 years with the expansion in land settlement and resources that would have entailed. Note that the population over the last 2000 years only grew by a factor of 25. Or how all dissenters died within 40 years when creationist think that 120 years is young.
seems like satan would be the most benovolent choice, if one wanted to stay alive and untaxed to death.. why would you want to live under such a repressive system.
Nowhere in the Bible does it give credit to satan for the atrocities,torture and brutality that he is accused of.That's all God's doing,unless god used satan to do his dirty work.Lying? Sure. Tempting? Yeah.But burning people alive? God.Allowing,or even commanding his men to rip open pregnant women or telling his men it was okay to rape them or smashing infants against rocks? That was God too.Satan was nowhere in sight.
Tbh i think this is a good video to study bible, since the words used in bible are quite hard to understand(old words). especially for those english isn't their first language
Friendly Atheist, Hemant, Imade the live, too, for once. This was so much better with you! And this, well, among so much else, shows the 'grifting game' that is religion. And kids , like women, in the Bible, are disposable property. Well, I guess that was the norm then with most humans. Ugh. 👍💙🥰✌
@@shriggs55 Well, it could be worse, I guess. But I hope things are great for you! And thankyou for the good thoughts. Love and peace sent your way, too! 😘🥰💙✌
How do you make fire wrong?? You either succeeded in making fire, or you failed... in which case you only made smoke. Made fire in the wrong way?? How many different ways did they have to make a fire? Synonyms for a self-centered dictator: Yhwh
"The writers have the benefit of hindsight" - I have a hunch that it is a single writer. And no, he does not have a benefit of hindsight, because he hasn't discovery-written the rest yet. Those who were copying it were afraid to make changes.
@@Daniel-cz7kd God probably is not behind of anything and bible is man made book. My comment was a joke how badly bible is written and how badly human is if it is designed designed.
Imagine Jesus, instead of the anger and rage he showed with the money changer in the house of him/dad,... He sees Moe counting and dealing of humans...
Thanks for another reading from the book of fables. My they must have been doing it, wouldn't it be quite dusty or Sandy? And those Levites are still milking from others, while others do all the hard work!
The further I read/listen the more I can’t believe the absolute scam Moses and his family had going on. All these rules and commands from god that only come through Moses conveniently put him and Aaron at the top in control of everything with tons of perks like free food from the offerings, money from things like this chapter and tithes, and so on. Just pure madness.
Excuse me, but didn't Yahweh promise: 25 So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you. 26 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Isn't it obvious that they had to.put to death anyone who discovered that this Tabernacle had nothing in it, and Moses and Sons were conning all the Israelites? This is the reason Bel and the Dragon was removed from the bible. Bel and the Dragon was an early story where priests were conning gullible followers into worshipping a non existent god who lived in a sacred temple. God is still acting as a pawnbroker, too!
It would be interesting to see the real life writing of Numbers. Since this is probably related to tribal distribution rights, there was probably a gaggle of tribal leaders demanding a hell of a lot of edits. "No! We have WAY more people (percentage)!
I did and enjoyed every moment of these awesome videos.... And i am sure there are many others who loved it too. And were inspired to become an atheist too. I was a believer before but now a proud atheist.
The chapter, in which Joseph slept with 4 different women, was really inspiring... I'm still wondering, how the script of a porno managed to sneak into the bible...
@@timmick6911 to have the courage to leave the bondage of religion and be an atheist.... Otherwise I wouldn't have the courage to say that i don't belive in an all knowing and all loving God.
@@PassivesAbseits Yeah and when God killed all the first born of Egypt and later when he killed arons sons just because they lit fire in the wrong way... That was like the mind blowing.... And previously when he ordered Abraham to kill Ishmael to prove that he is a true servant of God... I mean Wtf..... Kill your own son to show me your devotion. That's some twisted stuff there itself man... If anyone still thinks that we should follow this book as a base for good behavior then they are misguided in many ways. Seriously.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The priest are the ones making the rules. Sin offering. Blood offering. Redemption money. What ever you call it, it sounds like extortion to me.
If the Levites were sentenced to a lifetime of housekeeping, maybe their tribe should have been called the Consuelaites. Nooooo...no enter tent of meeting without blood sacrifice....noooooo.
Verse below is 100% murder by the god of Judaism/Christianity. Killing people simply for complaining is 'murder'. Other passages reveal the god of Judaism/Christianity personally murdering innocent children. Pure evil. Should not be a surprise. A verse actually confirms the Lord personally creates 'evil'. Numbers 11:1 kjv - And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the FIRE OF THE LORD BURNT among them, and CONSUMED THEM that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Why did God tell Moses to count the Isrealites, shouldn't an all powerful God know the figure automatically? Afterall bible says god knows the number of hairs on our head.
Well of course god knew, but you gotta have them do something right. It's busy work. ...and he was probably hoping to kill someone if the numbers didn't match.
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I'm looking forward to it.. sad you can't be there. And yes, I will be supporting your channel again soon as I can fix my account. Hackers emptied my old bank account and impersonated me too.. left me near homeless. But ol peejay is back jack and soon I'll be good as new .
Hemant you obviously read The Bible, do you know who The Word is? Only Christians know.
Your first-borns math can be thrown far out of whack if enough first-borns are already dead and you don't account for them.
As an ex-evangelical, I really appreciate the effort, content and time that goes into these vids.
Hope I live long enough to see The Friendly Atheist do the last chapter of Revelation.
(Hope he lives long enough as well....)
That crackpot, old J. Vernon McGee, did his Buy-bull Bus series in 5 years, sanitizing what this wacky anthology had to say. He'd use his southern accent and "preacher's authority" to convince folks that this "god" was "right-chee-us!" and "we" need to follow "him". McGee is dead now, but his shtick lives on for the hard of thinking. Hopefully Hemant will undo most of the damage that these evangelists have done by not actually READING, but MANGLING the nonsense in the bible.
The thing about Aaron's other two sons being punished for making fire wrong is so obviously the kind of warping religious people do when describing ordinary events. A mistake when using flammable oils causes some people to burn to death and instead of it being "fire is dangerous so be more careful" it's "This was clearly God's wrath for getting the ceremony wrong.". It's like when Christians after the fact describe successful events as caused by God's grace and unsuccessful events as caused by God's wrath.
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Funny that I, as an atheist, am opposed to abortion because I don't think people should kill each other and I feel if we can't agree on when they become people perhaps we should err on the side of caution. God, who is allegedly at the root of the pro-life movement, whacks anything that looks at him wrong or gets in his way on a bad day
Jackson Sneed Very true, and correct, along with being a murderer and liar.
@@willj1598 Damned fig tree! Okay, that was Jesus, but same thing, right?
You ignore the reality of desperate women and girls. Life is difficult enough. Have compassion for them
Hemant, you make this badly-written fairy tale/horror story fun to explore. That there are people who
believe it to be true still boggles the mind.
You read my mind.
I unfortunately have to deal with those people everyday. Even with that being said I still don’t get why they believe that the Bible is true
I don't own a bible, but guess I could find it online. But honestly, this is so much more fun! Hemant, you're such a hoot!
Look online for the Skeptics Annotated Bible.
Yes their relationship with Yahweh is definitely an abusive one. And if it was any other situation like this people would tell you to run and keep running.
Thank you Hemant for your commitment in continuing this essential Bible reading series. Having started at Genesis 1, and now 120 chapters later we have arrived at Numbers 3. We are grateful to you for persisting through these bloody, violent, and myth based narratives with us, revealing that the Bible is not the greatest story ever told, but rather the most rudimentary, bloody, and haunting.
Here, Here! Cheers Jeanine. I recall being told to watch "The Ten Commandments" for homework. My Gran laughed all the way through and pointed out many errors from the Original Novel. If the book is Fiction, then the Movie can be even more Fictiony as well.
@@tomsenior7405 Hello Tom! I assume you are speaking of the Charleston Heston version? Unfortunately that film portrayed glammed up, and completely different characters and narrative than what is told in the barbaric rudimentary buybull.
@@jeanine219 Yes it was good old Gun Loving Heston. My main lesson from the Movie was that people will accept whatever Bible Story they are given. Even if it is Glammed up with with different Characters and not told as portrayed in the 'good' book. it seems it doesn't matter. Heck if such garbage was endorsed by our RE Teachers, then what is the point of Canon? My conclusion; As long as Christians get their "Feels" then the truth doesn't matter.
@@tomsenior7405 CB Demille was a genius when he rewrote the Bible.
The Bible is like a poorly written Game of Thrones.
'How close can we get to the Tabernacle?'
Thunk!(arrow impact)
'Okay... that close ... unhh...'
"Anyone that approaches the sanctuary shall be put to death"
I think we need more info on this. How close can you get? Is there a demarcation line? What if you were walking by or passing through?
If you approach area 51 there is a fence that tells you that you'll get shot if you cross it.
All God needed was motion detectors. Anyone triggering one of these and causing the doors to the tabernacle to automatically open would be met with an instant kill.
David Kent Did you miss “Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law - over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it.”
@@Daniel-cz7kd I read that part, but you lay out a rule and dont give context a lot of problems can arise. I can be on the east side of the U.S. and head west, I'm heading in the direction of California, I'm technically approaching California, but still thousands of miles away.
It's like in Gremlins, don't feed them after midnight! Then when can I feed them as 8 a.m. is technically after midnight.
I think when you write a book you should outline it so you don't ramble on and hit all the important points.
@@davidkent5626 I was thinking the same thing. I bet the authors left it vague on purpose to give themselves a blank check to murder anyone they wanted and claim "he was approaching the magic place!"
@@davidkent5626 Well done, so you must have read the part where Moses, Aaron and his sons where encamped on the east side of the tabernacle; do you need more context?
Knowledgeable and on point. I like this guy. He is more honest about the Christian's UNholy Bible than any Christian. That's the truth 😊
He’s reading from the Jews books called Numbers. No Jesus there.
@@shira1270 and Jesus' daddy is who, according to your mythology?
@@boomanchu2 you are not understanding the concept of the Bible being overlapped wiling mythology. We know that Rituals to worship Dionysus involved wine and bread like the last supper. Osiris has a shepherds hooked staff like the “good shepherd” so one would expect Jesus to be a shepherd or grape farmer but not so. The evidence suggests that the father was Yusef the husband of Miriyam legally but she could have been raped by a Roman then many religious ppl say it was a form of a God or 1/3 of a God called the wind in Hebrew or Holy Spirit in English. I obviously have no way to know the answer 100%.
William Calle Which is that Christian’s UNholy Bible?
@@Daniel-cz7kd which is the Unholy bible? Every bible. Because they are said to be holy, and they're not.
the term "holy" means nothing. And if something is not holy, it is unholy
Damn, the writers missed a wonderful opportunity: to name every one of the thousands just counted. Numbers is obviously written to bore all readers to death and failed.
It must have been written by one of L. Frank Baum's Rigmarole Townies.
Finally peejay ( the real me) has come back... 🔙 to the Friendly Atheist! I've missed you, Hemant. I've been missing these bible studies. Everything wrong with - is my favorite still.
Having just watched a breakdown of the 2 second F1 racing pit stop yesterday, I am now envisioning the tabernacle being taken down and put up during the 40 years of wandering in this way.... "Kid, this is your tent peg.... Make sure you're in place for the speed assembly and don't lose it while we're walking.... Your cousin will be right there with the hammer for that one peg, and your uncle will have the rope it holds down.... " 😂🤷♀️
And my parents wonder why I don't wanna read the bible...
"Build temporary shelters and live in them for seven days."
"I am the Bored."
A couple of stuff I think you will be interested in (as an ex religious jew):
You talked a couple of times about the two sons of Aaron that were killed by god. In the jewish tradition you should read one section of the Torah (which is called parasha, but I don't know the translation to English) every shabat (with exceptions) and so you will read all the Torah every year. One of those "Parasha"s is called "After the death of" because it starts with the saying that god killed them. So this fact is well know, even to kids.
You calulated that every family had at least 45 children. It makes sense with the legend that each birth was of 6 children every time for the israelites in egypt.
The ceremony of "buying" the first born back from god is done by taking 5 coins made of silver and giving them to someone from the bloodline of Aaron, and most people don't have such coins, so they buy them from the priest at around 50$.
Priests in jewdaizm are not Rabbis, they are just from the bloodline of Aaron, if that bloodline wasn't corrupted by marrying a women who got divorced or in many other ways.
Hi, I have questions I hope you are willing to take the time and answer.
In the jewish tradition and not what is thrown around..why did God kill Aaron's sons?? Why did God forbid Moses from entering the holy land? Why was God ok with Moses breaking the tablets?
Do jews really think that Moses is half God? How come God was ok that Moses married a cushite?
I hope you can answer me.. thank you
@@hocuspocus123 wow, those are a lot of questions. I'll try to answer them tomorrow (in my timezone it's after midnight right now).
But I can answer the easy one right now, I never met anyone that thinks that Moses is half God. A part of the problem for Jews with Christianity is the idea that God can become a human and "enter" the material world as a creature in it.
@@hodsinay6969 thank you!
@@hocuspocus123 In the jewish tradition God killed Aaron's sons because of a couple of reasons (different traditions, which are said to not be contridictory but both to be the saying of god)
One is that they were drunk while sacrificing, and you can learn it from the text because god told Aaron afterwards to not be drunk when serving God.
The other reason is that they were very knowledgeable in the sayings of God, and so they preached to the people infront of they betters (Moshe and Aaron), so they got punished for this. This resoning is being used endlessly to tell people that they should never contradict their elders or rabbis, or teachers. My father is a rabbi, and while I was growing up it was always said to me that it's wrong to talk back to him or to say anything that might sound like I contredict him, or anything that might sound like I want to teach people because it will be prideful like the way that the two sons of Aaron acted.
God forbade Moses from entering the holy land for a number of reasons (just like the previous case).
One is that him entering to the holy land must be when the israelites would be ready for the redemption, because of how pure he is.
Another is that he have done somwthing wrong in the eyes of the lord, at Numbers 20 8 God tells Moses that for giving the israelites water he needs to go and talk to a rock that will give them water, and he struck the rock insted (which of course made water to come out of the rock), so god told him that for this show of a lack of faith in god he would be punished by dying without getting into Israel.
Another one is that by tradition (and by Deuteronomy 1 35-39) except 2 righteous man no one of the people that came from Egypt will go into the promise land. And Moses was 120 years old at that time, so for all the people that are currently alive from the israelites Moses is the cool duded that talks to god and breaks the sea and generates water from rock and a whole bunch of miracles, so they will see him as a kind of a god and might worship him insted of worshiping god, so he must not enter for them to have a better chance of serving god.
About why god was OK with Moses breaking the tablets there is an abundance of reasons, One is that once Moses got close to people the israelites worshiping the calf the holiness of the tablets was gone, so there was no reason for him to keep holding them.
Another is that the tablets were too heavy for him to carry, but the words written on them carried the tablets by themselves, and when Moses got close to the israelites and the calf the words literraly flew away from the stone, and so Moses couldn't hold them anymore.
About Moses marrying a cushite, it's a subject that no matter how I'll address it will sound very very racist, so I'll just say in advance that I don't belive that what I say is true, nor that one race is superior or inferior.
The word cushite is the female way of saying cushi, which in Hebrew is used as a slur for saying black people.
Moses maried a midianite woman, as you can see in Exodus 2 21. Moses siblings talked about the cushite wife he took in Numbers 12 1, but according to a lot of interpertrs of the Torah (I think it's even mentioned in the Talmud, but I'm not certain. it was definitely written hundrends of years before the Talmud) that this saying was a "Sagi Naor" which basically means that they are saying the oposite. And because that being black makes you look horible, that by saying he has a cushite wife they acctually meant that he had a beautiful wife. and they gossiped about it because that how can he have a beautiful wife and serve god.
After all of this, you should know that for every quistion you asked I am 100% certain that people argued about it for years and years, and you can put a 5 hours lecture only of the different ways of interperting the relevant passages and their meaning. And I only put here a tiny bit of it, and I already invested way to much time in it.
Hope you find this informative enough.
@@hodsinay6969 you really took the time to answer me.. I am so thankful 🙏
I completely understand what you are saying about how many interpretations each passage has.
I have read the Torah and the rest of Tanakh, didn't read the Talmud yet but I think I should as most of the interpretation are there as I have been told, and I need to understand what is there that is not available to us readily.
I don't know where you stand in your beliefs but for me I dropped religion a long time ago and just want to understand the roots of the 3 Abrahamic religions and how the Torah and the main characters interpreted especially in third and forth reading.
Thanks again!
2:42 remember that "You shall not kill" is not in the ark of the covenant, but "You shall not boil a young goat in its mothers milk" is.
*Cant wait for your literature analysis!*
Actually with the number of people who had to take care of the sanctuary it would be a pretty gravy job, especially once they got settled, especially if you consider the life of the common folk of the day.
Can't wait for numbers 5.... Should be topical.
The missing 300 died in an epic battle near some hot springs while fighting of the vast armies of Logic and Reason. Only one returned but sadly died near the Isrealites' camp when making fire the wrong way.
I must confess I do not remember the dimensions given in previous chapters for the tent of meeting, the tabernacle etc but I find it hard to believe there would be enough work involved in maintaining and cleaning them to keep so many thousands of people gainfully employed on a permanent basis.
Probably all the animals being dressed for sacrifices. Like a huge bbq restaurant. Lots of work.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 Not sure what you mean. I should apply a little logic to a story which defies all logic? Over a million people wandering about in a desert for over 40 years when the journey should have taken just a few weeks apparently finding sufficient food and water to sustain themselves despite being in a desert. Tell me where the three million litres of water per day came from.
At the rate Yahweh gets pissed off and kills them, maybe he needs replacements?
With so many people cleaning everybody just gets in everybody's way sounds like major confusion.
@@andystokes8702 Andy, you are the same guy that thinks a mask stops viral transmission & there are more than 2 genders..& you are going to try to talk to others about “logic” just lol. What a joke.
So what do 2 million people do in a desert camp?
They are working on making the Sinai fertile
Lots of coitus!?
Original refugees.
Maybe they got their Math classes from Trump University!
It reads like a schoolboy's essay trying to hit a designated word count using as much fluff as possible.
Nadab and Abihus' Mother asks: Hey! Has anyone seen Nadab and Abihu around today?
The reply: No! They got killed by God yesterday for using the wrong fire.
Nadab and Abihus' Mother: Oh! That’s okay then, I was just wondering where they were.
When God kills so many of his chosen favourite people they just seem to chalk it up as an everyday blasé occurrence.
Terry Riley Why would the mother have asked where her sons were? Wouldn’t she already know when Aaron’s mourning their deaths?
I love how the bible retcons itself with things like "YOUR FIRSTBORN IS MINE" eventually becoming, "We had a contract negotiation and we are going to replace firstborns with the population of the various cities of Levites."
Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu were burned alive by the yahweh god when they made an offering with unauthorized fire? So even the fire itself had to be authorized by this war god?
@@natsusatsujinki8342 That is an interesting interpretation. In my opinion based on the most current archeological evidence, the Torah was likely written and assembled by priests, scribes, and leaders of Judaism around the 5th to 4th century post exile period BCE. I believe it was extracted and pieced together from Hebrew oral myths and traditions, embellished, edited. I think they intended it to ultimately serve as a useful written and permanent template for patriarchal priests and religious leaders of Judaism to extract what they wanted from their religious patrons, using promotional stories of an extremely vengeful, violent and bloody god ......fear tactics just as in a ruthless dictatorship with Yahweh being the invisible dictator, and the Judaistic leaders being his representatives and beneficiaries.
@@jeanine219 ". . . but He LOVES you . . . and He needs MONEY!"
@@patricktilton5377 George Carlin said it best!!❤️❤️
It is unbelievable that the bible should be called "literature". Not speak of those who considder it the greatest piece of literature in human history. Every comic book has a better style of writing. 🤣
@ Andreas K I have read better written fanfiction.
@@dragowolfraven3806 I read better stories from kids in second or third grade... except for the spelling. 🤣
@ Andreas K True but at the kids can write a consistent story. My little brothers and sister can write a better story.
Someone once told me that bible is the greatest work of fan fiction ever, cobbled together from the rewritten myths and beliefs of its time.
@@dragowolfraven3806 The Bible is so obviously man written.I would expect much,much more from a so-called supernatural God. His holy book should be far superior than anything humans could write-enough to blow everybody's mind.
Missed this one ...but we can always watch it later ...like now ;)
It's what happens when tribal warlords writes a book for oppression and claim it's a god's book.
wtf dropped out my ass during this? Thank you so much for all I learn. smile.
My brother was redeemed, so was his son, and my firstborn kid, all on the same Hebrew date 42 years apart. It’s a lovely ceremony, redeeming the firstborn. Don’t knock it.
2:54 in fairness, thou shall not kill is generally interpreted as "though shall not kill when it is against the law" aka murder. And since god makes all the rules what that effectively means is "thou shall not kill unless told otherwise".
I was always taught not to round off numbers before doing a calculation, because the outcome would be off by too much. First do the maths, then round off the outcome.
They would have needed to round off their numbers, because by the time they finally reached the end of the chapters, with their endless repetitions, some people would have died and new ones would be born.
Like I said last time, all these names listed and the repeating of the same thing over and over reminds me of a kid in school trying to hit a word count. "I'll just list random names or explain how we counted every single group every time and I'll be to enough words in no time!"
I would say that of the whole book, yes, every verse "the name of the guy is Bob and Bob is the name of the guy and I am god your lord because I am your lord, blah, blah, blah." This God would fail any basic English composition class for sure.
My week is complete ☺️
You can find passages in the Bible that breaks every commands,but God expects you to keep them.
I love how god talks to his Bible characters. When I was still following my birthright born into Christianity, I gave up my voice of logic and gave the intelligence I possess to god. God led my words. Now no god or voice of god in my head were puppeteering me. But the brainwashing I went through caused me to give my own brain to God. I take back all the credit that I have given god credit for. There is no Loving God. If there was a loving god, this god would not make you wait until you are dead to have a safe place to live.
The fact that when good things are attributed to god's good will, and bad things happen because "it was god's plan" makes them indistinguishable from "things just happen".
This is hilarious. I wonder if God has divine dementia or Alzheimer's with all the "I am the Lord" repetition. We know already.🤔😂
🤣🤣 divine dementia.... Sponsored by the Satan himself. 🤣🤣🤣
That was embossed in God's stationary.
Yeah.And he keeps telling them that he's the God that took them out of Egypt.He held that over their heads for so damn long it makes me want to throw rocks at the sky! Unconditional love anyone??
@@shriggs55 Even my kids, 35 and 31, have informed me that the statute of limitations for pointing out that "I gave birth to 2 almost 9-pound babies" has run out.
@@pixel9548 Ha!
Did God really save the Israelites from Egypt? I think it's more of a lateral move. They went from being slaves of Egypt to slaves of God.
This book is aptly named. Ah! the good old days when families consisted of 45 children 🤣
"Unauthorized fire."
So excited and grateful that someone as intelligent as you is doing this to enlighten others to the metaphorical-myth like tales of this book…some good things in here and some really bad. Lol! I am soo looking forward to Revelation!😂😊🤣
Me, too. In approximately what year, though? This is turning into a long-term project!
The Merarites were basically roadies, then. Speakers, amps, running cables, setting up the stage...
Interesting that between the many many MANY males named so far, I have not been able to see anyone with the same name. I might have missed something, but they all seem to have different names. Take a random group of 100 people. There will be plenty of overlap in their names. Not so much in the bible. What are the odds that no one else was also named Moses.
All changes when you get to the New Testament though....
Can't bloody well keep up with all the John's Mary's etc!!!
This is how you know that Moses was a real person, non-believers are always trying to label him as a fictional character.
@@chrismassey7563 Irrefutable proof, Chris!!!! How can anyone argue with such indisputable evidence?
@@chrismassey7563 The VAST MAJORITY of Jewish and Christian scholars have come to the conclusion that there is no evidence for the existence of Moses or the Exodus and a great deal of evidence to contradict both, including that so many people moving through the desert together for decades would have left quite a bit behind to be found and NOTHING has ever been found.
@@chrismassey7563 Sounds more like editing. "So you've named your main character Bruce Micheal Smith?" "Well, lots of people are named that so it stands to reason..." "Hardly memorable though, eh? Have you tried something unique, like uh, Twazzwilligar Evilington? People will remember that Twazz is an important guy."
So far learning about this book from the start to here, I wonder why i had to repent for this god!
When god killed all the first born in Egypt was there an age limit? I mean the pharoah was probably a first born son. If the father in a family was a first born was he killed along with his own first born? How did this work? What were the rules?
First born babies.
Rules? Hah! The writers of the Buybull just made stuff up. The only rule is: "My Imaginary Friend, oops, God, says so!"
he killed all the firstborn. period. it doesn't say firstborn sons. However, this is just another example of how god disrespected women since they didn't get to be killed. and he killed all the firstborn cattle, sheep, you name it. probably the nile was full of first born male fish bodies floating belly up. But really, this is a literary theme; the pharoah killed the first born children back when moses was a babe, now god gets revenge and kills the egyptians and later Herod kills the jewish babies, of course that would only have been males since they were the only the ones who would threaten his authority. I doubt women realized how lucky they were to not count. haha
cgirl111 The babies god killed in Egypt where all Israelite boys, as for age limit, what is written is right after birth, after any baby boy, so basically the toddler age.
When we left off I had at least one brain cell remaining, something tells me I'm about to lose that one, so let the derp commence! 🤤
How in the hell are those tribes supposed to maintain those tent decorations when only the sons of Aaron are going to be allowed to go there without being put to death??
22273? Let me guess: Now they will list them all by name!?!
I skipped EWWNumbers but had to go back after watching Mindshift SBS. Didnt realize it's the funniest EWW! 😂😂😂
We all know by now just how dangerous it was to work for god, back in the Day. Where is god now? We see false Prophets and vitriol spouting Pastors becoming filthy rich. What happened to all the smoting? Once Upon a Time god Smote this person, Then he smote that City, then he Smote 'til the Cows came Home. Come on god, pull your finger out. Start smoting your bad employees again. We know you have a lot to choose from, but seeing the worst offenders smoted Live on Air... It may help turn your plummeting figures around.
Ha ha. Such great humor. And along the same lines, why does god seem to be exclusively "smoting" the over 250,000 children globally who die from starvation each month? While so many evil dictators, serial killers, pedephiles, drug cartel participants, damaging con-artists, etc live relatively long comfortable lives? Statistically there is no difference between the misfortune that befalls the innocent vs the most vile. That can be translated as no signs of intervention from alleged benevolent invisible gods.
@@jeanine219 Nice one. Let me see. According to the "Apologetics Bumper Book of Explanations for Boys", the answer is: God's Plan... Mysterious Ways... Jingle the Keys... Look at the Trees... Burn in Hell...
Aha! here it is: "I am The Lord Thy God. Shut your Face".
@@tomsenior7405 🤣 Those apologists have it so easy. A multiple choice script of several word homilies, and that’s all they got. No knowledge of science, empirical evidence, philosophical pondering, logic or deductive reasoning needed.
Mightily smitily!
@@pixel9548 Excellent.
Hemant warned us that Numbers would be boring... but golly gee I'm missing the IKEA instructions chapters.
The all loving God freed them from slavery and then held them prisoners in the desert, feeding them the same prison food everyday until all those he "freed" died.
Kiran Patel Interesting view, do you know why they stayed in the desert?
@@Daniel-cz7kd yes but reason not matter. Definition of prisoners is people who are confined against their will.
This and other passages shows a vindictive God who will not let his people forget that he loves to kill anyone that does not follow his rules or trust him. He ensures that they do not forget by making them celebrate his love of killing of first born every year.
Maybe creationist will someday explain how all 3m people and livestock managed a 1000km trek over 40 days considering the Egyptian were supposed to be starving the people. Or how the population grew from 70 to 600,000 over 450 years with the expansion in land settlement and resources that would have entailed. Note that the population over the last 2000 years only grew by a factor of 25.
Or how all dissenters died within 40 years when creationist think that 120 years is young.
This Bible study is the only way I can stand to "read" this boring crap.
Love the "just died" nonsense. Oh Yahweh, you cad! 😂
Great job!
Please make a video about all religions because I want to know about the truth behind those religion.
I love you, you're so funny!
Funny quote about God from the video:
"He loves you, and no one else apparently"
Those Levites are such nooges. YHWH is such a micromanager. They deserve each other.
ok! only 1069 chapters left in the bible. Hope you stick around for the next 20 or so years. lol. but seriously, love your work.
seems like satan would be the most benovolent choice, if one wanted to stay alive and untaxed to death.. why would you want to live under such a repressive system.
Nowhere in the Bible does it give credit to satan for the atrocities,torture and brutality that he is accused of.That's all God's doing,unless god used satan to do his dirty work.Lying? Sure. Tempting? Yeah.But burning people alive? God.Allowing,or even commanding his men to rip open pregnant women or telling his men it was okay to rape them or smashing infants against rocks? That was God too.Satan was nowhere in sight.
Satan only killed a couple of people. Because God said he could.
@@pixel9548 So the story goes.But Satan along with his angels have never been real,at least the fallen angels jive.
Tbh i think this is a good video to study bible, since the words used in bible are quite hard to understand(old words). especially for those english isn't their first language
How the hell does a “ being” that is outside of time and space, reach his hand into reality to do a consensus?
The Book of Numbers, or what I did to reach the word count of the assignment.
The depiction of god here is an embarrassment.
The bible really makes god look bad.
Friendly Atheist, Hemant, Imade the live, too, for once. This was so much better with you! And this, well, among so much else, shows the 'grifting game' that is religion. And kids , like women, in the Bible, are disposable property. Well, I guess that was the norm then with most humans. Ugh. 👍💙🥰✌
Howdy Laura-how you doin? I hope your doing swell and lovin life.Peace to you my fellow commenter!
@@shriggs55 Well, it could be worse, I guess. But I hope things are great for you! And thankyou for the good thoughts. Love and peace sent your way, too! 😘🥰💙✌
Random thought were are all the toilets in this small desert all these people are using.
How do you make fire wrong?? You either succeeded in making fire, or you failed... in which case you only made smoke.
Made fire in the wrong way?? How many different ways did they have to make a fire?
Synonyms for a self-centered dictator: Yhwh
Wanna bet the Levites had darker skin ? Just sayin'.
"The writers have the benefit of hindsight" - I have a hunch that it is a single writer. And no, he does not have a benefit of hindsight, because he hasn't discovery-written the rest yet. Those who were copying it were afraid to make changes.
Interesting that the Israelites were freed from Egyptian slavery, only to force the Levites into Israeli slavery.
Interesting indeed. Very similar to the current situation where the Israeli government is practicing genocide and fascism.
Is it just me, or does it seem like Moses and Aaron are just a couple of grifters and the Israelites are a group of easy marks?
If god is behind the bible I won't never again wonder why god designed people so badly.
Know where I can get a better set of eyes?
1 Dionysos Behind as in authority, author, main focus of bible?
@@littleredpony6868 about everyone who have a at least masters from human biology can design better eye.
@@Daniel-cz7kd God probably is not behind of anything and bible is man made book. My comment was a joke how badly bible is written and how badly human is if it is designed designed.
Somehow ... I'm thinking of a Deadline around the Tabernacle... like the one in The Running Man.
Imagine Jesus, instead of the anger and rage he showed with the money changer in the house of him/dad,...
He sees Moe counting and dealing of humans...
Thanks for another reading from the book of fables. My they must have been doing it, wouldn't it be quite dusty or Sandy? And those Levites are still milking from others, while others do all the hard work!
The further I read/listen the more I can’t believe the absolute scam Moses and his family had going on. All these rules and commands from god that only come through Moses conveniently put him and Aaron at the top in control of everything with tons of perks like free food from the offerings, money from things like this chapter and tithes, and so on. Just pure madness.
Excuse me, but didn't Yahweh promise:
25 So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you. 26 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Isn't it obvious that they had to.put to death anyone who discovered that this Tabernacle had nothing in it, and Moses and Sons were conning all the Israelites? This is the reason Bel and the Dragon was removed from the bible. Bel and the Dragon was an early story where priests were conning gullible followers into worshipping a non existent god who lived in a sacred temple.
God is still acting as a pawnbroker, too!
To the gershans it's curtains for you.
The bible is like the entire credit rolls of every single Marvel movie ever made. Ai yi yi.
It would be interesting to see the real life writing of Numbers. Since this is probably related to tribal distribution rights, there was probably a gaggle of tribal leaders demanding a hell of a lot of edits. "No! We have WAY more people (percentage)!
I'm curious of all of you that have watched all of these have any one of you felt the slightest bit inspired by it?
I haven't.
I did and enjoyed every moment of these awesome videos.... And i am sure there are many others who loved it too. And were inspired to become an atheist too. I was a believer before but now a proud atheist.
Inspired in what way?
The chapter, in which Joseph slept with 4 different women, was really inspiring... I'm still wondering, how the script of a porno managed to sneak into the bible...
@@timmick6911 to have the courage to leave the bondage of religion and be an atheist.... Otherwise I wouldn't have the courage to say that i don't belive in an all knowing and all loving God.
@@PassivesAbseits Yeah and when God killed all the first born of Egypt and later when he killed arons sons just because they lit fire in the wrong way... That was like the mind blowing.... And previously when he ordered Abraham to kill Ishmael to prove that he is a true servant of God... I mean Wtf..... Kill your own son to show me your devotion. That's some twisted stuff there itself man... If anyone still thinks that we should follow this book as a base for good behavior then they are misguided in many ways. Seriously.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The priest are the ones making the rules. Sin offering. Blood offering. Redemption money. What ever you call it, it sounds like extortion to me.
What has happened to Lev 25 and before?
If the Levites were sentenced to a lifetime of housekeeping, maybe their tribe should have been called the Consuelaites. Nooooo...no enter tent of meeting without blood sacrifice....noooooo.
Still better than church
Anyway the idea of DEATH came from God, remember Genesis 2:17! Pleased by it according to this book!
These slaves have a hell of a lot of stuff
14:10 *A lotto work
Verse below is 100% murder by the god of Judaism/Christianity. Killing people simply for complaining is 'murder'. Other passages reveal the god of Judaism/Christianity personally murdering innocent children. Pure evil. Should not be a surprise. A verse actually confirms the Lord personally creates 'evil'.
Numbers 11:1 kjv -
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the FIRE OF THE LORD BURNT among them, and CONSUMED THEM that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
More numbers nooooo.... Please!
Why did God tell Moses to count the Isrealites, shouldn't an all powerful God know the figure automatically? Afterall bible says god knows the number of hairs on our head.
Well of course god knew, but you gotta have them do something right. It's busy work. ...and he was probably hoping to kill someone if the numbers didn't match.
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Almost at the pro abortion chapter!