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Are the Ten Commandments directed toward a masculine audience?
The article is absolutely wrong to infer anything about the intended gender of the audience by the gender of the verbs alone, for the simple reason that in Hebrew, all written and oral addresses to ...
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Did David not defile himself by taking back Michal in 2 Samuel 3?
Looking at the texts of Deuteronomy 24 and Jeremiah 3, I'd suggest the key aspect of these verses are divorce:
"...her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after ...
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Why did God bless Abraham's marriage with Sarah if she was his sister and incestuous relationships are categorically prohibited in Scripture?
There are two matters here:
Marrying siblings was not always a problem but became a problem (as we now know) because of biological problems. Adam and Eve's children must have (almost) all married ...
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Should we put God to test or not?
The two scriptures (Deut. 6:16 and Malachi 3:10) should be read differently because the original Hebrew words for "test" are different in the two verses. In the King James version, the words ...
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Deut 34: "And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died:" Was this prophetic or just a coincidence?
Moses' life was divided into three providential periods of 40 years each. The first was his 40-years in Pharaoh's palace; the second was his 40 years of exile in Midian; and the third was his 40 years ...
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Why does Deuteronomy 29:5-6 say they ate no bread for forty years?
The manna is called לֶחֶם, which can mean bread, but also refers to any meal: for example, the daily sacrifice of meat is also לֶחֶם (Numbers 28:2). So when the manna is called לֶחֶם (Exodus 16:4, etc....
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Why so many different translations of Deuteronomy 32:8?
The Septuagint reads differently here than the Masoretic.
The Masoretic (BHS) reads:
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the children of men,
He set the ...
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Did God resurrect Moses?
No, Moses and Elijah weren't resurrected so that Peter, James, and John could see them. We already know this because John 3:13 tells us that "no man hath ascended up to heaven".
Look at how Matthew ...
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Does God condone rape in Deuteronomy 22:28-29?
No, this command does not condone rape. In fact, this act was meant to protect women.
Let’s examine the specific context surrounding this verse. Stating in verse 23, we see that the next couple verses ...
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Humankind divided up among the gods?
The most complete scholarly discussion of the "Sons of God," comes from Michael S. Heiser, scholar in residence at Logos Bible Software. He is a biblical languages scholar and also makes a compelling ...
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If the Exodus and conquest of Canaan took place around 1446 BC, why are there so many references to iron in that period's writing?
The iron age does not refer to the invention of iron smelting. As Wikipedia says:
It is defined by archaeological convention, and the mere presence of cast or wrought iron is not sufficient to ...
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Should we put God to test or not?
Do not try the LORD your God, as you did at Massah. (Deut. 6:16, JPS)
לֹ֣א תְנַסּ֔וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר נִסִּיתֶ֖ם בַּמַּסָּֽה׃ (Deut. 6:16, BHS)
Bring the full tithe into the ...
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Why did God bless Abraham's marriage with Sarah if she was his sister and incestuous relationships are categorically prohibited in Scripture?
Technically, Sarah was Abraham’s HALF-sister, according to Genesis 20:12:
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
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Are the Ten Commandments directed toward a masculine audience?
The last of the traditional Ten Commandments says in Exodus 20:17 (NKJV):
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female ...
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Why is the 5th book of the Bible called Deuteronomy?
The English "Deuteronomy" is derived from the book's name in the Septuagint: "Deuteronomion", meaning "Second Law".
The Hebrew name for the book is "Devarim", or “[the] words", the book's opening ...
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Does Deuteronomy 18:18 relate to Jesus?
According to at least one witnesses account... some of the Jews in the 1st century CE believed Jesus Christ was "the prophet" God spoke to Moses about in Deuteronomy 18.
(Deuteronomy 18:18) I will ...
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How do we reconcile Deuteronomy 22:5 with John 7:24?
The judgment, Deuteronomy 2:5, was already given by God to Moses. That decreed judgment is to be carried out.
Enforcing God's judgment is not personally judging. There is no contradiction here.
If ...
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What does "the assembly of the LORD" refer to?
The Tanakh translates בִּקְהַ֖ל יְהוָֽה in Deuteronomy 23 as "congregation of the LORD." Bernard M. Levinson's commentary in the JPS Study Bible states:
The congregation of the LORD (v.2) served ...
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Why is the tribe of Simeon missing from Deuteronomy 33:1-29?
Moses died circa 1406 B.C. In order to understand why Simeon is not mentioned in Deuteronomy, we must go back in time to when Jacob, the father of the twelve sons who were the progenitors of the ...
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Did David not defile himself by taking back Michal in 2 Samuel 3?
Scripture comments after Michal despised David for his exuberance at the bringing in of the ark (2 Samuel 6:20-23) :
Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
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Contradictory Dietary Laws in Deuteronomy Ch. 12 & 14
When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, they were commanded to dispossess the nations dwelling therein and eliminate traces of their worship by destroying their altars, breaking their sacred ...
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Could God be ok with some types of divination?
Joseph was pretending (as a ruse) to make himself look like a typical pagan ruler so as not to raise the suspicions of his brothers. Of course he would claim that he used the special cup for ...
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Apparently a DOUBLE contradiction: Can this be explained?
Deuteronomy says you are not to cut yourself or your hair "for the dead". Deuteronomy is talking about acts indicating a state of mourning. It is the mourning that God doesn't like in his ...
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The meaning and fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28:68
68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt, by a route which I
told you that you would never see again; and there you will offer
yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, ...
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In what significant ways would the Prophet that was to come be similar to Moses? Deut 18:15
Similarity
Moses
Jesus
Descendant of Jacob
Exodus 2:1-2
Matthew 1:1-16; Luke 3:23-38
Hunted by a king at birth
Exodus 1:15-2:10
Matthew 2:13-23
Son of a king (adopted)
Exodus 2:10
Matthew 1:18-25, ...
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Deuteronomy 28:48 mentions a "yoke of iron" when was this fulfilled?
Figurative Language and Parallelism
The prophecy in Deuteronomy 28 contains both literal and figurative language to express the future experience of Israel. Taking a slightly expanded context, vv.47-...
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What is the best interpretation of the “finger of God” in the Old Testament?
The finger of God is the Holy Spirit, as established by the following Synoptic parallel:
Luke 11:14–20
14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone ...
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