chapter 25

While Israel stayed at Shittim, the soldiers fucked the Moabite women. And Israel made sacrifices to their god. And the Lord was pissed.

"Take the leaders and impale them on a stick in the sun and let the vultures eat out their eyes and tear off their cocks."

So Moses told the chiefs to kill anyone fucking Midianite sluts with their false god.

Just then, a soldier brought a slut to his tent so that Moses and everyone saw them. Phinehas, grandson of Aaron grabbed up a spear, went into the tent and stabbed them both in the stomach.

When the wrath of God was over, 24,000 were dead.

They refer to this as a plague. I guess interspecies murder could be referred to as a plague. No other creature suffers from this sickness.

It is one of the growing pains on our way through evolution. One day we won't have the urge to kill each other.

Megalomaniacs will learn to rule their inner universe and not dictate over the ignorant.

But it won't be an easy lesson.

As long as we worship Gods who praise the murderers and plunderers.

"I grant my pact of friendship to Phinehas forever because he murdered two people while having sex. For ever. Blesses are murdering priests. I like you most. Even above the chosen."

Zimri was the murdered man and Cozhi the murdered woman. Them and 23,998 others.

The Lord spoke.

"They fuck with our soldiers. Kill 'em all. Every last motherfuckin' one of them. Man, woman, child. Animal.

chapter 26

So the Lord requested a new census. Fighting aged men. 20+.

And it looked much like the last census. The list of who begat who and how many thousand to what clan.

One might get the impression, if one takes time to ponder the banality of lists of names and numbers.

What was the average number of wives for these chiefs. Jacob had four. Two wives. Two maids. How many did they whore out to royalty.

Was Joseph the son of a foreign king. What's his name.

And how does any of it matter. Except to illustrate how thin our cultures are. How very infantile we are with our social structures. Most other animals have more stable, humane systems.

Religion of blood cults.

And though most everyone at the last census was dead in the desert.

The soldiers numbered 601,730.

Then the Levites were accounted for. The murdered sons of Aaron remembered. Jochehed, daughter of Levi, born in Egypt, had Aaron, Moses and their sister Miriam. Not the wife of Aaron. At least I don't know. Everything was permitted, especially with royalty. Incest was the rule. Pure blood line.

23,000 of them. Priests. Of various levels.

I'm a third level high priest, son of son of son of.

Caleb and Joshua were the only ones not dead in the desert. Of the leaders. Because they didn't bitch and were always quick to murder and plunder.

chapter 27

The great great grand children of Joseph had a problem. They were all daughters. Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milch and Tirzah. They went to Moses.

"Our father died in the desert. He wasn't a cohort of the Korah rebels. Let us not forget Joseph just 'cause we ain't sons. Give us some of the land we are going to invade."

So Moses talked it over with the Lord.

The Lord figured it was okay to honour their claim. He even made another law.

"If a man dies with no sons, the daughters gets it. If no decedents, his brothers get his stuff. Land. No brothers, then uncles. If not, the closest relative."

The Lord reminds Moses that he can't go to the promised land because he hit the rock.

"Well, if I gotta die for my sin, let's appoint a new overlord. The people are like sheep and need a shepard."

"All right. Joshua. Do all the necessary pomp before the people. Lay your hands on him. Give him some of your authority. Some must remain with the priests. Eleazar, my bastard son, oh, did I say that, shall talk to me. And the Urim."

So they made a big show and the people saw that Joshua and Eleazar were to rule over them.


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