Olive Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord
Boring.
A Blasphemer Put to Death
This title sounds way more interesting…
This blasphemer was the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian father. We already know that God hates the Egyptians, so it doesn’t surprise me that they had to qualify this man’s heritage with a tie to Egypt. He got into a fight with an Israelite, over what they don’t say. Maybe he was provoked, but those details aren’t important apparently. He was pretty ticked about this fight and decided to curse the Lord. That was a bad Idea, because when you do that, you get stoned. And stoned is what he got.
This immediately brings to mind the image of the Taliban, in the 21st century no less, stoning the woman at the soccer field half buried in a hole in the ground so she couldn’t get out, for whatever reason. This is barbaric behavior. Thank God (pun intended) that we have law and order, as well as justice and civility in our great country and we aren’t running it like the old testament and the backward medieval ways of the Muslims. If we were, we’d be as uncivilized and committing barbaric atrocities like this one and the many similar to what I mentioned earlier.
The very next paragraph after the stoning states that anyone who kills someone should be put to death… contradiction anyone?
Then we get to the famous eye for an eye section: Leviticus 24: 20
Bible Shakedown 