Why stop at just ten commandments? That isn't all of them. They go on
and on, getting dumber and dumber. Commandment 13 justifies slavery.

Why stop at just ten commandments? That isn't all of them. They go on
and on, getting dumber and dumber. Commandment 13 justifies slavery.
Commandment 14 says you can sell your daughter into slavery.
Commandment 16 says that stealing a slave is punishable by death.
Commandment 19 seems to say that killing a slave slowly is

Amazing that God had so much time to construct rules for ox's falling
in pits. Is this a common problem? Commandment 42 seems rather

-- what exactly are you to do with your firstborn son?

14. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not
go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath
betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell
her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he
shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him
another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he
not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go
out free without money.

Why stop at just ten commandments?

Why stop at just ten commandments? That isn't all of them. They go on
and on, getting dumber and dumber. Commandment 13 justifies slavery.
Commandment 14 says you can sell your daughter into slavery.
Commandment 16 says that stealing a slave is punishable by death.
Commandment 19 seems to say that killing a slave slowly is permissible.
Amazing that God had so much time to construct rules for ox's falling
in pits. Is this a common problem? Commandment 42 seems rather curious
-- what exactly are you to do with your firstborn son?

By Commandment 53 the Lord absentmindedly repeats an earlier
commandment. I guess his mental capacity is being excessively taxed.

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11. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make
unto you gods of gold.

12. An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice
thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and
thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee,
and I will bless thee.
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of
hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted
it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon.

13. If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the
seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he
shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out
with him. If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him
sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and
he shall go out by himself. And if the servant shall plainly say, I
love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then
his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to
the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear
through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

14. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not
go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath
betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell
her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he
shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him
another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he
not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go
out free without money.

15. He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
death. And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand;
then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. But if a man
come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou
shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. And he that smiteth
his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

16. And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in
his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17. And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put
to death.

18. And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or
with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again,
and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit:
only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be
thoroughly healed.

19. And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die
under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he
continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

20. If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely
punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he
shall pay as the judges determine.

21. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for
burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

22. And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid,
that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. And if he
smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall
let him go free for his tooth's sake.

23. If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be
surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the
ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time
past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him
in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned,
and his owner also shall be put to death. If there be laid on him a sum
of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is
laid upon him. Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

24. If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give
unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

25. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not
cover it, and an ox or an ***** fall therein; The owner of the pit shall
make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast
shall be his.

26. And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall
sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they
shall divide.

27. Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and
his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the
dead shall be his own.

28. If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he
shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a
thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no
blood be shed for him.
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he
should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold
for his theft.
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or
*****, or sheep; he shall restore double.

29. If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put
in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his
own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make
restitution.

30. If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn,
or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

31. If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep,
and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him
pay double. If the thief be not found, then the master of the house
shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand
unto his neighbour's goods.

32. For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for *****, for
sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another
challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his
neighbour.

33. If a man deliver unto his neighbour an *****, or an ox, or a sheep,
or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man
seeing it: Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he
hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it
shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. And if it be
stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. If
it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall
not make good that which was torn. And if a man borrow ought of his
neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it,
he shall surely make it good. But if the owner thereof be with it, he
shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

34. And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her,
he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse
to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of
virgins.

35. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

36. Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

37. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall
be utterly destroyed.

38. Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.

39. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou
afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely
hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with
the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.

40. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou
shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him
usury. If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou
shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: For that is his
covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep?
and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear;
for I am gracious.

41. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

42. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of
thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days
it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

43. And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh
that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

44. Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the
wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

45. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou
speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

46. Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

47. If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ***** going astray, thou shalt
surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ***** of him that
hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him,
thou shalt surely help with him.

48. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

49. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous
slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

50. And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.

51. Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a
stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

52. And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie
still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the
beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy
vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

53. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt
rest: that thine ox and thine ***** may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

54. And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and
make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out
of thy mouth.

55. Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

56. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed
of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall
appear before me empty:)

57. And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which
thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in
the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the
field.

58. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord
GOD.

59. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread;
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

60. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the
house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk.

61. Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and
to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and
obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey
his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine
enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall
go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites,
and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

62. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after
their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break
down their images.

63. And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread,
and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

64. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land:
the number of thy days I will fulfill.

65. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to
whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their
backs unto thee.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them
out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and
the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I
will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and
inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto
the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I
will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt
drive them out before thee.

66. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They
shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if
thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

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And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar
off. And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come
nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told
the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all
the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the
LORD hath said will we do.

Why stop at just ten commandments? That isn't all of them. They go on
and on, getting dumber and dumber. Commandment 13 justifies slavery.
Commandment 14 says you can sell your daughter into slavery.
Commandment 16 says that stealing a slave is punishable by death.
Commandment 19 seems to say that killing a slave slowly is permissible.
Amazing that God had so much time to construct rules for ox's falling
in pits. Is this a common problem? Commandment 42 seems rather curious
-- what exactly are you to do with your firstborn son?