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THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
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TORAH

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chapter 34

And on and on spoke the Lord, never tiring from instructing the multitude. His people.

“Okay, we are going to take Canaan and I’m going to give it to you.”

So the Lord drew up the boarders from the desert of Zin up by Edom. On the east by the Dead Sea. Still called that. South by the Akrahhim, to Zin, somewhere to somewhere to Egypt and the Mediterranean as the west line. The Mediterranean was called the Great Sea. At the time of the Torah, the Atlantic and Pacific were unknown.

Northern line from Mediterranean, well, look at a fuckin’ map. The place is called Israel. And obviously something happened ‘cause the holy scriptures were before Jesus Christ, 2 or 4 thousand years. And there is a big space to 1948 when they finally got permission from the second beast to invade what the locals then called Palestine.

Anyway. Nine and a half tribes still needed land. Eleazar and Joshua were to set up the distribution. If you can’t remember who they were, don’t worry. They are just random names in a book of nonsense. Believed perhaps because it is so impossibly tedious that it looks like one of those fuckin’ books you gotta read in science class about the history of termites.

The effect, however, is holy justification for a hoard of genocide freaks. Who were, the holy priest, let us not for a moment accuse the sheep of being more or less than sheep, more than willing to sacrifice even their own people to get what they wanted. World domination. And it did not matter if it was 24,000 or 6 million.

The first beast. The lion. The second beast. Well, ask a native of the Americas.

“Hey, then. What’s your religion.”

The story is a story and tells only the tales of The Men’s Club. The Books of Wars of the Lords.

And they are all horror fairy tales. Put them down and come to the table of protocol.


chapter 35

Still talking and talking, the Lord Moses. Getting near his death. Dictating all he can before the ground takes his sun burnt body to Shoal.

The Levites get pasture around their towns. So they can graze some animals. Extending about a kilometer from all around their town wall. 2000 cubits on the north, same on the east and west and south.

The town the Levites get shall include the six cities where murderers not yet convicted can go. And build another 42 towns so we got 48 towns of priests. Take more land from those who have more and less from lesser.

So the Lord goes on about refuge for man slayers who kill by accident. And of course, they can be tried in the priest’s court. 3 on one side of the Jordan, 3 on the other. And foreigners who kill people in our midst also can flee to the six cites.

Now here’s how to decide on murder. This of course is a law for the Israelites. The Levites are above the law and hack people down when they see fit.

If you smash someone’s skull with an iron bar and his head busts open and then, since we have no hospitals because only war matters still, and the person dies. Than the person who smashed in the skull of the other person is a murderer and must be put to death. The same applies to hand held tools, be they from stone or wood. And if someone takes their fists and smashes someone’s face until it is ripped off and they bleed to death. Or if someone kicks the living shit out of someone and he is dead.

That mother fucker must die and the blood avenger, that would be a husband, father, brother, uncles or some appointed person, gets to kill the murderer.

But if someone throws a rock not knowing it will crush someone’s head and it does, they can run to a city of refuge.

And if he is smart, he will pick the city with the oldest high priest. Because, when he dies, the accidental killer is free to go back to his holdings.

And to accuse a person of murder you need 2 witnesses. A murderer must always be put to death and there are no exceptions. No ransom will buy back the murderer’s life.

Don’t pollute the land in which you live. Blood pollutes.

We don’t want our blood mixing with the blood that saturates the land. Because I the Lord live among you.


chapter 36

Laws of incest. To make incest law.

The tribe leader Zelophehad left only daughters. And the danger with daughters is when they marry, their husband or husbands own them and what they got including land so that the daughters found themselves in the famous Catch 22 before Joseph Heller even wrote his book. The point was; there had to be a solution found to the problem of what to do with the five women and their inheritance.

And after the representatives from the Josephite tribe stated their case of their five nieces, Moses talked to the Lord and the Lord said.

“Fuck, that’s simple, boys. They can marry who ever they want as long as it is an uncle. Then the land stays with the Josephites. And other clans that have women inheriting from their father are also free to marry whom they please, as long as it’s an uncle. If there are no uncles, first cousins. If no cousins, well. Fuck ‘em.”

As it turns out, they all married cousins. The clan of Manasseh, son of Joseph.

These are the rules, all what has been said by the Lord, through Moses, at the Jordan not far from Jericho.

And everyone knows who has ever been to church a dozen times, Joshua and Elezabob, the priest. Intended to destroy it.

‘Cause it was there.


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