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My friends, turn in the Good Book to the Book of Numbers, Chapter 5, Verse 11, and read along with me:
Let us pray.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If a mans wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impureor if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure
then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[a] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.
Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband
here the priest is to put the woman under this cursemay the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.
Then the woman is to say, Amen. So be it.
The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.
The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar.
The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[c] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.
If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.
If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,
or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the LORD and is to apply this entire law to her.
Layzeebeaver
(1,624 posts)
will we see the first fertility and family planning clinics implement this procedural fix?
doc03
(35,340 posts)and is unfaithful to his wife, the priest shall cuteth off his penis. Would the SCOTUS go for that?
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)It was legal to have all the wives you wanted. If your wife couldnt deal with your sexual appetite, youd just marry another wife.
Of course, if a woman married two different men theyd kill her.
Trueblue1968
(17,220 posts)LeftInTX
(25,356 posts)IOW: Subject to interpretation by any and all!
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)The Hard Right claims the Bible is totally against abortion. In reality, the only thing directly related to abortion in the Bible is a very detailed procedure for performing one.
LeftInTX
(25,356 posts)There is the issue of polygamy..It was legal in the old testament.
Apparently, Jesus didn't like polygamy too much, but who knows?
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)I could really use that knowledge. "Asking for a friend".
Thank you.
Eko
(7,312 posts)God did it so it's ok with them.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Certainly if you are a Christian, it may matter in your PERSONAL life, but we make law based on secular methods or reason, logic, and data, or at least we are supposed to.
The Bible has no place in the law. It is a book of Christian and Jewish mythology. Religions based on Judaism and Christian mythology are free to use the Bible in their personal lives. If they do not want to get an abortion, DON'T GET AN ABORTION, just keep your book out of the lives of others who don't follow, or don't care and want to terminate their pregnancy.
Use the Bible and religion to guide YOUR OWN actions, not to impose your beliefs onto others.
tanyev
(42,559 posts)Last edited Mon May 9, 2022, 07:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Or say he suspects. This is the remedy for cases in which she was not caught doing anything wrong and there are no witnesses saying she did anything wrong. Just one ticked off suspicious husband.
I wonder how often this was used to try and get rid of a wife that was no longer wanted-for whatever reason.