I sat down to read the Bible today. I opened it to Deuteronomy. And when I got to the end of Chapter 21 of Deuteronomy I realized without a doubt that this God is Female! This chapter all reads together accept backwards. See if you can pick up on the stream of thought here.
“Corpse of a Criminal. If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his corpse hung on a tree, it shall not remain on the tree overnight. You shall bury it the same day; otherwise, since God’s curse rests on him who hangs on a tree, you will defile the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance.”
Doesn’t this sound like your mother telling you to pick up that plastic grocery bag that blew up on your lawn? Or not to take out the trash and dispose of it properly so the neighbors don’t see! And what is the reference to an inheritance from the LORD your God. Use your Colombo ears as I work backwards to the next part of chapter 21.
The Incorrigible Son. If a man has stubborn and unruly son who will not listen to his father or mother, and will not obey them even though they chastise him, his father and mother shall have him apprehended and brought out to the elders at the gate of his home city, where they shall say to those city elders, This son of ours is a stubborn and unruly fellow who will not listen to us: he is a glutton and a drunkard. Then all his fellow citizens shall stone him to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel, on hearing it, shall fear.
Doesn’t this sound like a woman who lives on the outskirts of Isreal and has a problem with Isreal? I mean why does God need to make the Isrealites fear him? If the Isrealites believed in God they would know his power and respect and fear him. What this sounds like is a mother who has no husband and is trying to get her son to change his behavior otherwise his own friends, “fellows”,will take part in stoning him. She is emphasizing the role of men in the community. The next section back might reveal what her issue is with men.
Rights of the First-born. If a man with two wives loves one and dislikes the other; and if both bear him sons, but the first-born is of her whom he dislikes. (note the scatological English is of her whom he dislikes, it sounds like it is masking identity and intent, like saying “Not me”) :when he comes to bequeath his property to his sons he may not consider as his first-born, the son of the wife whom he dislikes. On the contrary, he shall recognize as his first-born the son of her whom he dislikes, giving him a double share of whatever he happens to own, since he is the first fruits of his manhood, and to him belong the rights of the firstborn.
Do you notice how the woman God say’s double. As if half for him and half for me. It kind of ties in with the you better do as I say in The Incorrigible Son and the Corpse of the Criminal in some way doesn’t it? Well lets analyze the section that occurs just before this one in the Bible Marriage with a Female Captive.
Marriage with a Female Captive. When you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, (sounds like an uneducated grammar to last part to have her as wife)you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive’s garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However,if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslavce her, since she was married to you under compulsion.
This sounds like the first wife again telling a man who comes along and reads this what to do when a second wife comes along. She knows the nature of her husband and is saying to him as the voice of God, you can bring her home and have her sleep in the barn. You have to shave her head though and if you find her ugly you can let her leave. It also sounds like the woman’s voice in this story is saying that in that time men went off to war to get a new woman. “Honey I am going off to war again.” And then he brings home a new wife.
And now to the first part of chapter 21 of Deuteronomy
Expiation of Untraced Murder
“If the corpse of a slain man is found lying in the open on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you to occupy, and it is not known who killed him, your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distances to the cities that are in the neighborhood of the corpse. When it is established which city is nearest he corpse, the elders of that city shall take a heifer that has never been put to work as a draft animal under a yoke, and bringing it down to a wadi with an ever-flowing stream at a place that has not been plowed or sown, they shall cut the heifer’s throat there in the wadi. (Nuances of what she wants to do to another female? Wasn’t this starting out as the heifer would be used to move the body but somehow the story changed. Doesn’t the unplowed field also look like a good place to bury the body that is not mentioned as being moved by the Heifer. This is a cold and calculating story that changes.) The priests, the descendents of Levi, shall also be present, for the LORD, your God, has chosen them to minister to him and to give blessings in his name, and every case of dispute or violence must be settled by their decision. Then all the elders of that city nearest the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose throat was cut in the wadi, and shall declare, Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see the deed. In part she is threatening the men that they will have to kill a cow, something very valuable. And in that last part she is saying they can deny what was done. Why does she want them to be able to deny what they did, if they only killed a cow?
Absolve, O LORD, your people, Isreal, whom you have ransomed, and let not the guilt of shedding innocent blood remain in the midst of your people Isreal. Thus they shall be absolved from the guilt of bloodshed, and you shall purge from your midst the guild of the innocent blood, that you may prosper for doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.
This might also be saying if you take a woman and get her pregnant don’t be surprised if you find yourself dead when her son kills you! Only a woman would threaten like this. She is laying down the law or the plan about how to have her son kill his father and get his money, half for him and half for her. There is also a kind of in town versus out of town juxtaposition here. Whereby if an Isrealite brings back a girl and God tells them to take her away into a wadi they are free to do so. This cold and calculating woman is saying that the body of the dead man the city it is closest to is the one to take it to. How can they take it back if they killed the cow that was supposed to take it back in the Wadi. Very duplicitous. And the measurement between cities sounds like they are leaving it open as to which city to take it back to as a matter of prudence or open alibi determinant? Remember the conclusion of the chapter which I presented first was in effect, “Don’t leave that corpse hanging out too long!” Kind of like someone might recognize it! It also somewhat reads like “son, go into Israel, find a man and rob him, slit his throat and bring him back. And I will say (picture her pirouetting) I was his discarded war bride kicked out of town.”
It is said that the mind of Satan works in reverse. We see a mind working in reverse in many ways here. I put it all backwards so that it would make better sense. Satan’s mind works in reverse because it learns by getting ahead of you in your steps and waiting there to trip you up like the snake was waiting in the Garden of Eden. I believe that Satan can become a savoir by getting ahead of you and being there to help you out instead of tripping you.
But if this is indeed the voice of God then it is a woman’s voice and God is supposed to be a man. So it is indeed the voice of woman that talks to people. It kind of proves that Schizophrenics are created by people and hear the voice of people.
Right of the bat in this story you would think that God would say to only have one wife. That only having one wife is appropriate.
I was once told by someone when I asked them a question regarding such women when I was in college and what the answer an Irishman gave me when he was evading my question was, “If you were meant to know you would know.” I was meant to know. I was told. And if I was meant to know I also have the right to say. So I said it again.
Also one more thing about the narorator’s voice in that story, it kind of sounds like it is coming from the type of person that are characterized by the phrase, “You’ll never hear the end of it!”
Bottom line, watch out sons, for the single mother who needs money!
Thomas Paul MurphyCopyright 2011 Thomas Paul Murphy
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