steve howard's translation of the Torah
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TORAH

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chapter 31

“Okay Moses. The 40 years are up. We are going to slaughter the Midianites then I’m going to kill you.”

So Moses told the Israelites to select a thousand of the best fighters from every tribe. Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron or maybe Moses was to lead them with his royal thing and trumpets. Thing might mean hard on.

They took the field and hacked down every male. As well as their other victims, they did in the five kings of Midian. Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba.

And they killed Balaam who had once been their spokesman. Just as a reminder that sometimes the Lord did not bless those who blessed Him.

They took the women and children captive. As well as the livestock and all the material wealth. And burnt down every town. And every camp. And they took it all back to Moses. Eleazar.

Moses freaked.

“You didn’t kill any women. The sluts that killed 24,000 of you. The whores that Balaam served to you. You stupid, stupid people. How often must you be told. Kill every male and every woman that has touched a man’s penis. For she is a fuckin’ whore.”

“And the virgin girls.”

“We’ll keep them this time. If they ain’t ugly.”

So Moses sent all the soldiers with blood on them outside camp for 7 days. To clean up. Ritually. The 3rd and 7th day like all the other times.

Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and lead, clean with fire. If they had all those metals, they had real bitchin’ swords. Burnt cow had to be used for some stuff. To clean. But hang on with the iron. Some scholars think that the Torah covers more than 40 years in the desert. Maybe even a couple thousand years wrapped up in one story. And to support this notion is the first mention of iron.

Vs. 22: Gold and silver, copper, iron, tin and lead. EQ

Vs. 51: … all kinds of wrought articles. EQ

It is the first mention of iron even though there was mention of metal furnaces in Egypt. And what we may have here is a jump into the iron age. The iron age had much harder weapons. When we cross the Jordan with the new dictator, it is an age of iron.

We won’t venture there. We will stick to Moses. Everything that couldn’t be purified with fire had to be washed with water.

Which makes sense. Blood and various other body parts and fluids baked onto your clothes eventually attracts small enemies. For which a sword, and therefore the soldier, is useless.

So Moses and Eleazar took inventory of the plunder. And set out to divide it up fairly with appropriate taxes for the Lord.

Priest tax was one in 500 from the plunder of the warriors who had slaughtered the enemy. And of the other Israelites, one in 50 from half. The first goes to Eleazar, the rest to the Levites.

The original text repeatedly refers to the remaining virgin girls as human beings, which I think is a nice touch. The number of these creatures was 32,000. Asses, 61,000. Cattle 72,000 heads. Sheep 675,000.

Which means Eleazar, God bless his soul, got to have the 32 most beautiful young virgins. All with murdered families.

To do with what he pleased. Because, people, he, like the royalty of all ages, could do as he fucking well pleased. Including raping the hottest virgins of a slaughtered land.

Isn’t history fun. Don’t the evilest killers get the most.

And, amazingly, not one Israelite had died in the battle. A clean slaughter.

Vs. 49: … and not one of us is missing. EQ

This is obviously a lie. Even now that Israel has one of the most scary military on the planet, someone always dies. Someone gets a knife in his throat. An angry virgin who has witnessed the murder of her 6 brothers and her parents and knows she will become a sex slave takes her nail file and stabs it into the throat of a bloody soldier.

The story appears to be just a story and it is written to look like it is impossible. In a way, it is impossible, the whole of it. The events are all too real. The myriad of laws are added for the frighten slaves of the ruling class to obey. Obey and never read and comprehend. Alas, someone must take the time to read the fucking book so many proclaim to believe, and see it as a warning.

It is a clear warning of the tyranny of the royal family. The vile wealth hoarding ruling class.

Having books written about how many they slaughtered and raped and how much fucking gold and silver they plundered. And beating the shit out of the peasants and murdering family members to remind them that they should better worship outright bald-face lies rather than be forever tortured.

Time to drop your religion and come to the table of protocol.

And this may come as a surprise but it is clear, when studied long and deep enough, that religion was made to self destruct. That the ruling class has given us our play-fight to make us mentally stronger. “Fight this lie, bitch.” The grand game of Babylon has come to an end.

Together we can face the universe with no lies clouding our eyes. Make the unknown the known. Step into eternity. Be what we shall be.


chapter 32

The Reubenites and Gadites had a shit load of cattle and wanted to take the lands of Oazer and Gilead. So they went to Moses and told of the nine regions the Lord had conquered.

“It’s perfect cattle country, Man. Let us stay here.”

“What. Are you going to let your brothers go to war while you stay here. We have more killing to do. Last time the people didn’t want to invade a land, the Lord swore we would all die in the wilderness. Except Caleb and Joshua. 40 fucking years of torture and you dare think of leaving the Lord’s army.”

“No. No. No. That is not at all what we meant. We meant. Let us stay here to build towns and set up our families on the land and shops and barns and the fighting men will not come home to it till we have killed everyone the Lord wants dead.”

“Well, all righty. In that case, set up your wives, children and live stock and stay ready to cross the Jordan when the time for genocide is upon our victims.”

So the Gadites, Reubenites and half-tribe of Manasseh got the kingdom of the Amorite King Sihon and the Bashen King Og’s land, various territories, cities and towns.

They rebuilt all the cities they had burnt down. Most of the names were changed. To help forget the blood stains on the land. And start to believe in the greatness of their forefathers. Generation after generation. For ever. Less one die by the sword.


chapter 33

And a quick recap of the marches of the Israelites from the time of the first slaughter in Egypt. Every first born. The Lord passed judgment. Judgment means killing. Genocide. Plunder of resources and stealing of land.

Then they wandered around bitchin’ and complainin’ being beaten, kilt and driven like fighting cattle with no modern conveniences. From the blood bath and plundering of Egypt on to Succoth. Camping there; then when the land was covered in shit and piss, they went to shit, piss, fuck at Etham. Went by Pihaniroth and stopped at Migdol to eat and shit out more manna. To the next place, then the sea and somewhere else and the next place and landed in the wilderness of Sin.

Not forgetting, of course, they stayed at a place with twelve springs and seventy palm trees. And for a few million people and several million animals, seventy fucking palm trees are about as helpful as a bible to an elephant.

But hey. Don’t fuckin’ question goddamn holy books. Christ know they’ll fuckin’ crucify you if you are so reckless.

At Alush they had no water to drink. Oh well. So after a few hundred children, old people and animals died, they went somewhere else to eat and shit manna.

If you want all the names, check the original. As I said, my favorite translation, before this one, was, sort of still is, Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Translation. According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. But other than a few details of names and numbers, it won’t tell you nothing I, your humble narrator, didn’t.

Aaron died, with the Lord’s command, a sword, on Mount Hor. 14th year. In the 40th year, Moses was also scheduled to die at the Lord’s command, new Lord, new sword. 40 fuckin’ years dictating brutal tyranny to the unruly ignorant hoard and the Lord don’t let him into the promise land on a technicality call.

Killing of Kings by the Kings to succeed, or as the Torah calls them, Lords, was tradition. Kill the King and all of his family was the most common method. All possible competition murdered. Just to be on the safe side. Read the story of King David and how he had King Saul and all his family slaughtered. Even grandsons were later impaled for the grain god. Read the plays of Shakespeare.

The Canaanite King of Arad heard about the hoards of murdering plunderers on the move. So they, the army, also moved from place to place, in much less than 40 years, to get down to the Jordan. Where the shit had already clogged up the fan. And would stay that way for ever. ‘Cause the Lord loves hate.

The Lord said to Moses: “Kill every last motherfuckin’ one of them Canaanites. Smash and burn all their idols and cultural symbols. If you don’t wipe them from the face of the Earth for ever, they will haunt you and poison your souls, corrupt your lives, rape your children, disobey my laws and masturbate on the Sabbath. And I will be so pissed off I may turn the whole fuckin’ planet into a toxic wasteland of radiation void of all life. ‘Cause I’m the mighty Lord and will do as I please. You want me to spare you. Down on you knees.”

Mother fuckers.

Vs. 55: But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land, those who you allow to remain shall be stings in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land in which you live; 56. so that I will do to you what I planned to do to them. EQ

This is the dark ages school of thought. Kill or be killed. The enlightened age, the one that has just become morning after the bloody dawn, will be: live in peace for there is no enemy among you. There are dangers on and beyond the planet that we will over come together. For so it has been written.


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