Resolution - to read the Bible

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It is interesting to see just how far off topic this thread can go. Blackbelt's video I think is a little too far.
Time for me to get back to my reading in Leviticus again. I slept in until 8:00 oclock this morning and spent my computer time on other things - including preparing for next Sunday.
 
Leviticus 11 to 16 - clean animals to be eaten; unclean to be avoided. Cows - yes. Pigs - no. No mention of horses among the many animals, fish, birds or insects listed. And many of the dietary laws make sense in a hot desert area. Things that make a person unclean - childbirth (a woman is unclean twice as long after giving birth to a girl than to a boy), menstration, and bodily discharges (both men and women). Signs of diseases that can make a person unclean (fear of leprosy). The role of the priest. Mold in clothing or in dwellings. Sacrifices and rituals (some, like washing, make sense) to be declared 'clean' again.
Much of this would be considered instructions for maintaining health. We still teach our children, our food handling people, our health workers about cleanliness, and how to handle things (dead animals, body wastes, etc) that could otherwise make us sick.
 
But when gathered suite Muse IHC? The buzz of the private self? Some collective activity required to calm the noble beast ... brute force? Some never get over it ...
 
Seeler said:
Leviticus 11 to 16 - clean animals to be eaten; unclean to be avoided. Cows - yes. Pigs - no. No mention of horses among the many animals, fish, birds or insects listed. And many of the dietary laws make sense in a hot desert area. Things that make a person unclean - childbirth (a woman is unclean twice as long after giving birth to a girl than to a boy), menstration, and bodily discharges (both men and women). Signs of diseases that can make a person unclean (fear of leprosy). The role of the priest. Mold in clothing or in dwellings. Sacrifices and rituals (some, like washing, make sense) to be declared 'clean' again.
Much of this would be considered instructions for maintaining health. We still teach our children, our food handling people, our health workers about cleanliness, and how to handle things (dead animals, body wastes, etc) that could otherwise make us sick.
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Makes me think of Pogo and lo' satyr's that bite the R's of those that see nothin wrong in the bog we've created ... boggles my mind and Baggins Persona too ... wild Cel*Eire? Sometimes known as Vernacular Hog wart ... Pi Ghump in the mud ... fossil fuel if rendered ... brains for tanning!
 
Moving on:
The day of Atonement; the scapegoat
More dietary laws - some make sense (ie eat meat on the day of slaughter and the next day, but not on the third day - without refrigeration it's apt to begin spoiling).
Laws against incest - against child sacrifice - against homosexuality - against beastiality
More laws, some repeats of the Ten Commandments - against idols, 'thou shalt not' - leaving gleanings for the poor
Love your neighbour as yourself. Lev. 19:18
Don't mistreat foreigners. Love them as yourself.
Punishments spelled out for breaking these various laws - many of them being a death sentence.
 
Were these laws to preserve the lobster, oysters and pork for Bess?

All the more for the loss of intelligence about it? The void grows ... due to sacred servicing ... we here more everyday about jack & Jil't Jobs ...

Runs deep in the mob called society ... without empathee ...
 
Seeler said:
Moving on:
The day of Atonement; the scapegoat
More dietary laws - some make sense (ie eat meat on the day of slaughter and the next day, but not on the third day - without refrigeration it's apt to begin spoiling).
Laws against incest - against child sacrifice - against homosexuality - against beastiality
More laws, some repeats of the Ten Commandments - against idols, 'thou shalt not' - leaving gleanings for the poor
Love your neighbour as yourself. Lev. 19:18
Don't mistreat foreigners. Love them as yourself.
Punishments spelled out for breaking these various laws - many of them being a death sentence.
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If these were universal ... there would be a lot less trouble ...

Yet there are some that would like to control the whole thing ... no names mentioned regarding God's agents ... like the formless void ... pseudo form ... a black velvet band? Night follies ... and down it come ...
 
Seeler said:
Moving on:
The day of Atonement; the scapegoat
More dietary laws - some make sense (ie eat meat on the day of slaughter and the next day, but not on the third day - without refrigeration it's apt to begin spoiling).
Laws against incest - against child sacrifice - against homosexuality - against beastiality
More laws, some repeats of the Ten Commandments - against idols, 'thou shalt not' - leaving gleanings for the poor
Love your neighbour as yourself. Lev. 19:18
Don't mistreat foreigners. Love them as yourself.
Punishments spelled out for breaking these various laws - many of them being a death sentence.
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The interesting thing about mention of the death sentence. Jewish tradition has it that a court that pronounced a death sentence more than once every seventy years was a "hanging court".
 
BetteTheRed said:
The interesting thing about mention of the death sentence. Jewish tradition has it that a court that pronounced a death sentence more than once every seventy years was a "hanging court".
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Was death back then executed by way of hanging?
 
BetteTheRed said:
No, sorry, that was my figure of speech, comparing it to a "hanging judge" in more recent history...
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As I recall, in the Bible there are various instructions to stone certain people to death. Do such also appear in Jewish tradition?
 
Maimonides spoke of four different methods of execution, depending on the crime - stoning, burning, beheading and strangling. Most of the capital crimes he mentioned were sexual crimes of various sorts, and it's hard to understand why some violators were executed one way and others another way. For example, Maimonides says that a man who commits incest with his daughter is to be burned, but a man who commits incest with his mother is to be stoned. There are a variety of non-sexual capital offences according to Maimonides, ranging from violating the Sabbath, to being a rebellious son, to being a citizen of a city that turns from God to kidnapping a fellow Jew.
 
I can't believe that I've let days go by without reading. I was busy; I'm glad that I read ahead. I will finish Leviticus this evening. The schedule is to finish it by the end of February so I am still ahead.

Chapters 22 - end
- instructions for Levites; cleanliness laws - what is unclean. instructions about sacrifices.
- appointed festivals - sabbath day, sabbath year (7th year), year of jubilee (7 x 7th year or 49th year)
- a blasphemer stoned to death - various punishments - eye for an eye, etc.
- treatment of foreign slaves vs Israelite people who become poor and sell themselves as slaves
- repeat of commandments against idols and for observing the Sabbath - promises of blessing and protection in the new land, the covenant - punishments for breaking the covenant the people and the land will be destroyed but if the few who remain repent God will restore the covenant.

Leviticus finished!

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Seeler said:
I can't believe that I've let days go by without reading. I was busy; I'm glad that I read ahead. I will finish Leviticus this evening. The schedule is to finish it by the end of February so I am still ahead.

Chapters 22 - end
- instructions for Levites; cleanliness laws - what is unclean. instructions about sacrifices.
- appointed festivals - sabbath day, sabbath year (7th year), year of jubilee (7 x 7th year or 49th year)
- a blasphemer stoned to death - various punishments - eye for an eye, etc.
- treatment of foreign slaves vs Israelite people who become poor and sell themselves as slaves
- repeat of commandments against idols and for observing the Sabbath - promises of blessing and protection in the new land, the covenant - punishments for breaking the covenant the people and the land will be destroyed but if the few who remain repent God will restore the covenant.

Leviticus finished!

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Congratulations on reading Leviticus! Not one of the most accessible books in the library. :)
 
I find the concept of sabbath years and jubilees quite fascinating.

To put it in context, my daughter, at a very young age, took out one of those "money mart" type loans. Despite the fact that she's paid the actual loan off several times over, she will be, apparently perpetually in hock to them as fees add up.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I find the concept of sabbath years and jubilees quite fascinating.

To put it in context, my daughter, at a very young age, took out one of those "money mart" type loans. Despite the fact that she's paid the actual loan off several times over, she will be, apparently perpetually in hock to them as fees add up.
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The variant nature of hoch finance ... it deviates from bean ethical ...
 
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