• GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.mlOP
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    Nice passage! This one too is interesting IMHO:

    The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

    So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

    genesis 19:30-38

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+19%3A30-38&version=NIV

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      Now this is the kind of book we need to be teaching in school! The youths need to be learning about their judeo-christian heritage.

      I also like the part that tells one how to get an abortion from the temple priests:

      ‘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 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.

      Numbers 5 23-28

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        I am not surprised that people believed such things about 2500 years ago. The weird thing is how some people could consider this the truth now.