barbaralba's translation of the old testament
THE TANAKH:
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
THE BIBLE


TORAH

deuteronomy

 

chapter 19

When the Lord has cut down the nations what gotta be slaughtered because that's how order is formed out of chaos. And the rich will plunder the Earth.

Anyway, again we hear Moses go on about people who accidentally kill people when the ax flys off the handle. He gotta run for one of the harboring accidental murderers cities and hope no one gets him before he gets there.

And obey the laws of your Lord God. And we need 6 towns for people with faulty axes.

Or blood guilt can happen. Which is way up there on the things that most suck.

If someone murders someone for real. That's over wicked and time for getting stoned. Show no pity.

You need at least 2 witnesses to accuse and testify for proscription. Killing.

Okay, now pay attention class, this bit is important.

If you and your friend says that someone said Moses was a cunt and it turns out he didn't say nothing 'cause he can't even talk and never heard of Moses then the 2, you and your friend what said a crime which didn't happen 'cause he sold more manna donuts than you, than you are going to get what you wanted him to get.

What must be the death penalty. To instill terror. Every time someone breaks the pattern of order. They must be made dead.

Show no pity. Life for life. Foot for foot. Gonad for Gonad.

chapter 20

Your enemy outnumber you but don't sweat it. You got the Lord your God who wanna kill your enemy. So don't fear. Don't panic. The Lord's team always wins.

If you just built a house, or go and get married, or you got vines full of grapes, or if you don't feel like fighting, then go home.

Now if we go a killin' in far away lands and you wanna have them as slaves you don't have to kill them. If they wanna fight, kill all the men. You can take the rest. Plunder and take it all home.

But in the towns where you are taking the land. Kill every last mother fuckin' Hitite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite and Jabusite. They suck the most and I want them all dead.

Don't destroy trees though. Not if they have fruit. Eat the fruit. You can destroy the other trees to build siegworks. Until the city is flattened.

chapter 21


If some kilt person is lying dead in the field, find out what the closest town is to the dead corpse nobody knows nothing about.

Go on down to the river with a cow and break its neck. Say you didn't kill the dead corpse over the dead cow then everything is cool. Man.

Okay. Okay. There has been some talk about wasting bitches what are real fine. We came up with this: trim her hair, her nails, a new dress. Let her cry for her dad for a month. Never mind her 85 relatives. Fuck her and she's your wife. If she get fat or ugly just let her go free. Don't sell her. 'Cause you used her already. And she's a dirty old bitch.

And if a man got 2 wifes, one's a sweetheart, the other a whore. And they get kids and the whore you, the man, don't like get's the first son. It ain't the son's fault and first born is first born and unless you are the father of all the Israelites and can steal your brother's birth right, then the first son gets the most.

'Cause we gotta have rules and that's one.

Now, you got a first son who don't do what his mom and dad tell him. And you don't like it. You goes and says, "He's a drunk and eats like a pig."

Then you can stone him to death. Which is a good thing 'cause everyone will hear and be terrorized into mute obedience. The aim of our dictatorship tyranny.

And if you impale someone on a big stick, do it in the morning and take him down before sunset. God don't like see that shit. Especially at night.


chapters 22 - 24