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Here is another example of taking a wife from within the immediate family.

Now we come to a story every Protestant child knows. I used to think, "Poor Jacob. He sure got cheated." Now I still feel sorry for Jacob, but Gods role in this story should have made Jacob very angry.

Jacob didn't want or ask for Lia in the first place. He worked fourteen years, twice what he had bargained for, for the wife he really loved and wanted. When this love for Rachel was too obvious, his God stepped in and Rachel paid the price for his love. God left her barren!

It seemed to be the custom of the day to keep God's prophets busy in the bedroom. God only intervened enough to keep the maids pregnant, everything in an uproar, and all the while he was gaining followers.

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The best explanation is from the Torah. The girl's father told Jacob, "But
wait until this week [of wedding celebrations] for [Leah] is over."

Back in (Genesis 16:2) Sarai said to Abram,

First Sarai, now Rachel has to give her slave-girl or maid to her husband to have children. God made Sarai and now Rachel barren and both Abraham and Jacob are sent to the maid for children. But that's not the end of all the generous giving of maids.

Jacob was a very busy man! At this rate God will soon have his army.

The story of Thamar is one I don't ever remember hearing before I started my research, but it certainly needs to be brought to light. Her first husband, Her, was wicked, so God killed him. Her's father told his brother Onan to perform your duty as brother-in-law.Onan ... wasted his seed on the ground, so God killed him also. The
father of these men promised Thamar another husband as soon as his youngest son grew up. This promise was forgotten, so Thamar played a little trick.

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In the Torah the phrase is,

On my lap. Literally, "on my knees." This denotes that the child born would be considered hers. The woman giving birth would sit on the lap of the foster mother, using the lap like a birthstool. The child would then appear to emerge between the legs of the foster mother.

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It was all right for him to forget his promise, then proposition her at the side of the road. It wasn't all right for her to be the other half of his affair. But she had kept his signet, cord, and staff, so he decided it might be a little embarrassing to push the matter any further and dropped the charge. What is sauce for the goose is not
always sauce for the gander. .

My Sunday school teacher never mentioned Hebrew slaves purchased by Jews. There were special rules from God, just for Hebrew male slaves, which no one ever mentioned in church. It seems if you purchase one, and his wife is part of the deal, she leaves when he leaves.

They lived together, worked together, and had children together. None of that matters any more than a leaf blowing in the wind. She belongs to the master, and the man shall leave alone! If, however,...... There's not usually an IF with God, so let's keep reading.

How convenient for the master that God should make such a law. Oh well! At least there was an, "If, however." Imagine your daughter, and grandchildren, living with a male slave that decided he didn't want his ear pierced. Can you imagine how busy God must have been? With everything else He was responsible for, He took time for ear piercings!

I didn't learn about Jews selling their own daughters in Sunday school either.

God and the Jews had to be fresh out of the caves of the ice ages. I know there are a few twisted minds in this world today, but the majority of us would never
consider selling our daughter into slavery. Yet today millions of people still worship the God that wrote the rule in (Exodus 21:7)

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But if you did sell your daughter, you could rest assured that God made rules to see that she was cared for. This passage finally gives some rights to the female slave, but only if she is purchased for the owner's son.

She has no right to love, husband, or family. To put it bluntly, he HAS to FEED HER,
CLOTHE HER, and HAVE SEX with her BY GOD"S LAW! While your loving, caring, God was making all these rules about how slaves were to be bought, sold, and cared for, He decided to protect the owner. So He made another rule. He decided it was all right to kill a slave as long as he, or she, survived a day or two? I"m going to take you back now to (Exodus 21:7) again, and play, "What If." What if a Jew sold his daughter and the new master strikes her with a rod so hard she dies after two days? Should the new owner try to get his money back, since she only lasted two days?
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. Here we have another, "If, however" ...If, however, the slave survives a day or two, HE (the owner) IS NOT TO BE PUNISHED, SINCE THE SLAVE IS HIS OWN PROPERTY. (Exodus 21:20)
God said it's all right to beat another human like a horse, but ONLY until they are, "nearly" dead.

Next, God said it was all right to seduce a virgin if your heart was in the right place, ...and you had the shekels.

You just buy her and marry her. But if the father refuses, does she sell for half price next time, or does the next man get her free since the price has already been paid? And what do you suppose virgins went for in those days? (Deuteronomy 22:29) sets the price of virginity at fifty shekels.

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There must have been a lot of extra curricular sex activity for God to need all these new rules. In this rule I would point out it's forgivable for a man to have carnal relations with a slave if he's punished and pays the price. SHE shall be punished but not put to death, but there is no arrangement for HER to go to the priest for atonement or get forgiven.

THEY will be punished but not put to death. SHE, at this point, is left alone. SHE must deal with her conscience, and any fears she may have, by herself. He, on the other hand, can take a ram to the meeting tent, where the priest handles the atonement for him. Then he walks away scot-free with a clear conscience. Seems
a little unfair to me! God made some strange laws, but it is almost unbelievable that the next law is printed in a book used today by so many religions.

What were the Jews doing so long ago that God had to throw this one in?

Remember God destroying Sodom and Gamorra for their wickedness? If there was enough of this filth going on to make it necessary to have this law, why didn't God destroy His Jews?

Throughout the Old Testament God ordered the best and first of everything. Here He told his priest that a divorced woman is not good enough for him. His priest must be the first! "A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or lost her honor, nor a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for the priest is sacred to his God. And pity the priest's daughter if she dishonors her father!

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Before I post more of Mousetrails, I would like to invite my readers to look in the Private Boards section for a work of fiction I wrote before I started Mousetrails. It was also inspired by my research of The Old Testament of the Bible. It's called THE SONS of GOD. Enjoy.

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God was obsessed with virgins and sex. Lot offered his virgin daughters to the mob. Then later those same virgin daughters both found a way to carry Lot's child. God made a law about the conjugal rights of female slaves. He also made a law about paying the bride price of a virgin that had been seduced. Then there is a rule about carnal relations with a slave, and killing a woman caught having
sex with a beast. And if a priest's daughter gets caught committing fornication, LORD HAVE MERCY! But the most degrading law for women is yet to come.

Please, bear with me on the length of the next Bible passage. It is the most horrible, outlandish, chauvinistic, cruel, medically ignorant, passage in the Bible. If a woman never had the thought of another man enter her mind, but she had a jealous, insecure idiot for a husband, she could be put through this absurd stupidity ordered by God! It is sad to think that many probably were, through no fault of their own.

Now, as you read this, remember, these words came directly from the mouth of God Himself.

In simple language, the priest will adjure (charge) the woman with this oath of imprecation (curses) and ask the Lord to make her an example of malediction (slander) and imprecation (curses) among her people by causing her thighs to waste away and her belly to swell!

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In simple language, the priest will adjure (charge) the woman with this oath of imprecation (curses) and ask the Lord to make her an example of malediction (slander) and imprecation (curses) among her people by causing her thighs to waste away and her belly to swell!

Just try to imagine the mental attitude of a wife that has been put through this ordeal. But she dared not say anything, because God, the priest, and her husband had total power over her. In this day, in this country, the idiot husband would probably be preparing his own meals for the rest of his life. But the real shock is yet to come.

No witnesses are required. She doesn't have to be caught in the act. It only takes a FEELING OF MALE JEALOUSY for a woman's husband to drag her before the priest, where she will suffer charges, curses, slander and watch her belly swell and her thighs waste away. And here we have another, "If, however." If, however, she is innocent, she can still bear children? What woman in her right mind would ever want to bear children after being treated like that? Of course, if God and man could put her through such an ordeal, I have no doubt they could see to it that she stayed pregnant! THIS, Christian, IS YOUR GOD! He knew nothing about the human body. ANY woman put through the ordeal just described,
would probably swell and waste away. This law that came DIRECT FROM THE MOUTH OF YOUR GOD was, horrible, outlandish, chauvinistic, cruel, medically ignorant, and I"m going to add another word, sadomasochistic.
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sa-do-mas-och-ism: the derivation of pleasure from the
infliction of physical or mental pain either on others or on oneself.
Webster's Dictionary

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The God of the Jews was sadomasochistic! How else can you look at a law from God, based on jealousy, that inflicts such humiliation and horrible pain on women? Jealousy had an even worse consequence, if you were jealous of one of God's favorites.

Miriam and Aaron became jealous of Moses and his relationship with God, so,

No bitter water for Mariam. She wasn't that lucky! But why just Miriam? She was only half of the number that spoke against Moses. Why was Aaron not punished? Were I a female Jew living at this time, I would hide behind a rock and hope to be left behind, alone in the desert, rather than be accused of crossing this God, or
my husband! The only time a man paid attention to a woman was when she said the wrong thing. Even if she made a vow, a man could nullify it.

Her husband has the same power of disapproval. In either case the female and her wishes are null and void. Females were allowed to think for themselves but only if, (A) She keeps her thoughts to herself, or (B)The male in her life approves!

And there is even a rule from God on marrying female captives taken in battle. If you see a pretty woman you want to take home, You may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captives garb. After she has mourned her father and mother
for a full month,

Then what happens to her? She is not a wife, or a slave. Her parents are dead. Her home-town has been destroyed. She is among strangers in a strange land, and could be pregnant. Where does she live? What does she eat? Where can she go? Facing this, she probably wouldn't want her "freedom."

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Starting in (Deuteronomy 22:21) God handed down several rules concerning sex that give an inside picture of God's thinking at that time. If a woman is found not to have been a virgin the day she was married, she is brought to the entrance of her fathers house, ...and there the townsmen shall stone her to death. When a
man is discovered having relations with a married woman, ...both the man and the woman shall die. If a man has relations with a betrothed woman in the city, she could have cried out, so they are both brought to the gates of the city, ...and there stoned to death. If a man seizes a betrothed maiden in the open fields and has relations with her, ...

But if you deflowered her, and your deed is not discovered, the father only loses fifty shekels. Of course, she loses her virginity, and you"re still single? And what happened to (Exodus 22:15)? Is God making a slight rule change here, or did He forget the, "Man seduces virgin." rule He made earlier?

When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall pay her marriage price and marry her. If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still pay him the customary marriage price for virgins. With her fathers refusal and fifty shekels, you can walk away. In Deuteronomy you pay the fifty shekels, and marry her with no possibility of divorce. Are they supposed to live with the old or the new rule? God was always making rules, and threatening curses if the rules weren't followed.