What does the Bible mean in Leviticus 25.44?
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it is saying that you can not buy a Gods people as slaves that only the heathen the non-believers the pagans as they are called today can be bought as slaves. read the whole chapter and it will make more sense.
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I've never seen that in the Bible... perhaps you should ask the person that said it, and if he or she can back it up, let me know so I can study it. Thanks.\n\nWell, now that he has posted it, it can be explained, as I have in fact read it.\n\nKeep in mind that "lie" does not mean "rape" it means sex whether consensual or not.\n\n[23] If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;\n[24] Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.\n\nThis is not saying that the girl was raped - it is talking about a girl that makes no objection to lying with the man when if she didn't want to lie with him, she could object and try get help since she was in a populated area. She is having consensual adulterous sex.\n\nIf she objected, fought, screamed, cried out, then she would not be held responsible. All the women in the area knew this, as it was part of the law. Because of the culture and the value of a woman's virginity, a woman would have cried out and struggled violently with a man who was raping her to try and get help - just as any woman would do today if she were in a populated area where help was available.\n\nYou'll notice that in the following verses, the woman is presumed innocent if the event occurred in an isolated area even if it cannot be proved that she made an objection, because there was no one to help her. The man is put to death for adultery, since she was betrothed.\n\nIn the last verses, if a man and a woman have sex, and she is not betrothed but is a virgin, then he has to marry her. This is to protect the woman - no one afterwards would have married her and taken care of her. It was meant to discourage men from taking advantage of girls, or being "players" so to speak.
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Exodus 20:3-17 \nSummarized:\nHave no other gods.\nNo graven images/No idol worship.\nDon't take the Lord's name in vain.\nKeep the Sabbath Holy.\nHonor parents.\nDon't kill.\nDon't commit adultery.\nDon't steal.\nDon't lie .\nDon't covet.
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200 years ago some people quoted bits of the Bible out of context, devoid of the origional meaning, to justify slavery and racism. Today some people do the same mean trick to try to justify their bigotry.\n\nAn example - some say that Leviticus calls being Gay an abomination, they quote one sentence. If peope would read 3 chapters on either side of that one sentence they would see that eating pork and wearing clothing made of 2 or more materials are also called abominations. If they would read further, they would see that stoning children and killing animals on the alter is called for. If they would read the whole book, they would find why it is called Leviticus - God wanted ther Levites among the Isrealites to be quite different from all other people, the laws in Leviticus are intended only for those born into Levite families. Leviticus means "for the Levites". For any non-Levite to follow those laws is the opposite of what the Bible really says to do!\n\nAnother example - the word "homosexuality" is only about 100 years old. If you have an edition that uses that word in the writings of Paul, it is a deliberate incorrect translation, get another version.\n\nBest to read just the gospels anyway - what did Jesus say? \nLove your neighbor\nDon't judge others\n\nIn making you Gay, God gave you the gift of Love. What God has made, let no man put asunder!
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Divorce - leviticus 21 discusses not marrying a divorced woman, deuteronomy discusses not divorcing one's spouse as well as what grounds there are for divorce.....\n\nPiercing/Tattoos - leviticus also addresses tattoos, and I don't recall any scriptural reference to piercing exactly although leviticus does address "cutting" yourself.  However this was in reference to those who were marking their bodies for other god's.  So personally I don't think this means that current day "trendy" tattooing or piercing is against God.  (Unless your tattoo or piercing is done in worship of another god).\n\nJealousy - numbers discusses making offerings for jealousy, so it would be assumed by these verses that it is displeasing to God.  However the bible does give plenty of indication that God is a jealous God when his creation is bowing in worship to other false Gods.  Specifically there is a verse in Psalm 78 & 79 about it.\n\nRemarriage - see divorce response as this was addressed in leviticus and dueteronomy.\n\nSuicide - there is no direct mention of suicide in the bible, however some denominations consider suicide a form of self murder and therefore it is a sin b/c murder is a sin.  This is debatable and frankly open to interpretation.  Personally I don't believe in the whole "go to hell if you commit suicide" camp.  There is nothing scripturally to back that up, therefore I don't buy it.\n\nFalse Teachings - we are told to beware of false prophets and false teachings in several books of the bible including:  Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Micah.\n\nWitchcraft - is mentioned throughout the OT as being against God, specifically found in the books Dueteronomy, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicals, Micah, Nahum and Galations.\n\nSpiritual Gifts are addressed in many forms, sometimes specifically (1 Corinthians) and other times in the mentioning of "talents" given by the Lord to accomplish specific tasks. Such as those who were responsible for building the tabernacle (Exodus)\n\nUnconditional Love -   will have to think on this more.\n\nHomosexuality - God clearly states that he abhors it.  this can be seen in the story of Soddom and Gahmorrah and in a few other places where it addresses men laying with men, women laying with their kind, etc.  HOWEVER, this does not give room for us to hate gays.  We should still love them, because we are commanded above all things to love.  Love the sinner, hate the sin.\n\nThe Trinity - We can see the first address of the pluralism of God in genesis when God says "let US create man in OUR image".  This definitely indicates more than one.  Then through out the bible we see references to God the father, Jesus the son, and the Holy Spirit.  Jesus says that he was with the father in the beginning, he uses the name I AM which is also the name God used in the OT, etc.  \n\nDrinking Alcohol - Jesus made water into wine... and frankly it was a common drink of the time ... water was generally dirty and not good for consumption.  So wine would have have been used and even drunk by children.  Not uncommon.  However, the bible does address drunkeness and moderation. Genesis addressed Noah being drunk, Lots daughters get their dad drunk, etc.  In these instances being drunk leads to not so great things and is obviously displeasing to the Lord.\n\nPre-marital sex... Exodus discusses the pentaly to for sleeping with a virgin, this is a prime example of it not being favored by God otherwise there would not be a penalty for it.  Levitcus 21:13 clearly states the woman he marries must be a virgin.  Dueteronomy also addresses the importance of virginity.\n\nOther religions - or false Gods (taking interpretation of your question here) is addressed in Psalms, Jeremiah, Romans, 1 Corithinians, 1 Timothy, and more.  God clearly doesn't like us turning to false Gods, bowing to idols, etc.  In fact the first commandment we have is that there shall be no o
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It is at Chapters. It's under the Religion and Spirtuality section with all the other christian and non-christian religious texts including "the bible".
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Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3
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The bible is only symbolic. You can swear an oath on anything, the point is not what you are swearing ON but rather WHAT you are swearing. You could swear and oath on Winnie the Pooh and if you lied on the stand it would still be perjury.
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Look at the whole chapter, Leviticus 11:::\n\n                 Leviticus 11:1  And the Etrnl spake unto \n                 Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2  \n                 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, \n                 These are the beasts which ye shall eat \n                 among all the beasts that are on the \n                 earth. 3  Whatsoever......\n\nit goes on to say what is edible from the domesticated animals (must both chew its cud and have cloven hoofs), and from the waters (must have fins and scales).\n\nFurthermore, the animals must be killed by humans (road-kill is outlawed):::\n\n                Exodus 22:31  And ye shall be holy men unto \n                me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is \n                torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast \n                it to the dogs. \n\nThere are four levels to keeping kosher. The first, defined by the Bible, is the list of animals 'fit' or 'proper' to be eaten. This is found as you read above from Leviticus 11.\n\nThe next level is how the animal is slaughtered. It must be done as instantly and as painlessly as possible. This is insured by making the slaughtering a religious ritual so that it must be done the same way every time.\n\nThe third level is how the meat is prepared. Jews are forbidden to eat blood::\n\n          Leviticus 17:10  And whatsoever man there \n          be of the house of Israel, or of the \n          strangers that sojourn among you, that \n          eateth any manner of blood; I will even \n          set my face against that soul that eateth \n          blood, and will cut him off from among \n          his people. 11  For the life of the flesh \n          is in the blood: and I have given it to \n          you upon the altar to make an atonement \n          for your souls: for it is the blood that \n          maketh an atonement for the soul. 12  \n          Therefore I said unto the children of \n          Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, \n          neither shall any stranger that \n          sojourneth among you eat blood. \n\nTherefore as much of the blood as is possible must be removed. The way this is done is by a very very thick, course salt. The meat is covered with it, the salt soaks up much of the blood, and then the bloody salt is washed off. This is repeated a few times.\n\nThe fourth level is how the meat is served. The Bible tells us that one must not boil a baby goat in its own mother's milk. It was a pagan, not Jewish, custom to take a baby goat and boil it alive in its own mother's milk. The pagans felt this was some sort of magical thing, that the life-giving milk killed the animal instead....who can understand the pagan mentality? At any rate, Gd forbids the Jews from the horrible practice, and so in 3 places in the Bible::\n\n          Exodus 23:19  The first of the \n          firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring \n          into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou \n          shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's \n          milk. \n\n          Exodus 34:26  The first of the \n          firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring \n          unto the house of the Etrnl thy Gd. Thou \n          shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's  \n          milk. \n\n          Deuteronomy 14:21  Ye shall not eat of \n          any thing that dieth of itself: thou \n          shalt give it unto the stranger that is \n          in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou \n          mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou \n          art an holy people unto the Etrnl thy Gd. \n          Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his \n          mother's milk. \n\nFrom this the Jews learn another lesson, and that is that Gd does not want us to mix life, which is the milk, with death, which is the meat. Jews who keep these laws dont mix milk or milk products with meat or meat products, to stay holy to Gd. Remember that 'holy' means 'different, set ap
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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Actually the laws that were done away with are the "laws contained in ordinances".\nSite:\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/80628344/2012353330047993148Lqpai\n\nMany people confuse these with the Seventh Day Sabbath and Sabbath Feast Days.\n\n\nThe Laws Contained in Ordinances = Eph.2:15 & Col.2:15\n**It seems that most believe these two texts are saying that the Sabbath and/or Sabbath Feasts are done away with. Let me ask you a question: who wrote these books; wasn't it Paul? Paul kept the Sabbath (Acts 17:2) & Sabbath Feasts (Rom.5:11) like Jesus; then these texts must not be talking about that, when the Bible says to follow Jesus (Col.2:6) and the Apostles (Eph.2:20). If you believe the Bible is inspired (2Tim.3:16) & is the truth (John 17:17); continue on!\n**If everyone read the Bible clearly on these matters like Jesus did; then they're wouldn't be false interpetations! The Bible says in Colossians 2:16-17 "Let no man therefore judge you....which are a shadow of things to come" inwhich Jesus showed openly.\nIt explains some of these ordinances in Colossians 2:20-22 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?"\nNow Hebrews 9:9-13 explains it more! \nSee: Heb.9:10 "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and diverse washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation."\nThe other part to this about "judging on the Sabbath,...etc." are in: \nMark 2:23-28; 7:2-23; Luke 13:10-16; 14:1-3 & John 5:8-10; 7:23-24.\nNotice in every matter; the Pharisees thought it was wrong to eat with unwashed hands, to heal on the Sabbath, helping out people/animals on the Sabbath as other things; but Jesus always came back with Bible answers to them!\nSo what is actually done away with is "the judging of these days" and the animal sacrifices!
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This an article that I am copying from a website. But, you have to differentiate between the original Torah and Injil, what became the Bible of today, and the original Scriptures, which has delibrately been lost and corrupt by early jews and christians. As you can see from the text, it is clear, the languge and the level of barbarity can't be attributed to a Merciful Compassionate God. The link below may answer your questions with regards to Islam. Peace.\nhttp://www.understanding-islam.org/related/search.asp?searchstr=Slavery&lookin=1&x=0&y=0\n\nText: Slavery in the Bible\n \n    Except for murder, slavery has got to be one of the most immoral things a person can do.  Yet slavery is rampant throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments.  The Bible clearly approves of slavery in many passages, and it goes so far as to tell how to obtain slaves, how hard you can beat them, and when you can have sex with the female slaves.\n \n    Many Jews and Christians will try to ignore the moral problems of slavery by saying that these slaves were actually servants or indentured servants.  Many translations of the Bible use the word "servant", "bondservant", or "manservant" instead of "slave" to make the Bible seem less immoral than it really is.  While many slaves may have worked as household servants, that doesn't mean that they were not slaves who were bought, sold, and treated worse than livestock.\n \n    The following passage shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock.\n \n    However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.  You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.  You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.  You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.  (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)\n \n    The following passage describes how the Hebrew slaves are to be treated.\n \n    If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years.  Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.  If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year.  But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him.  If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.  But the slave may plainly declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children.  I would rather not go free.'  If he does this, his master must present him before God.  Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl.  After that, the slave will belong to his master forever.  (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)\n \n    Notice how they can get a male Hebrew slave to become a permanent slave by keeping his wife and children hostage until he says he wants to become a permanent slave.  What kind of family values are these?\n \n    The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery.  How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave?\n \n    When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.  If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.  But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.  And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.  If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.  If he fails in any of these three ways, she may
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Got a Bible handy?\n\nJames 4:6\n1 Peter 5:5-6\nRevelation 18:7-8\n2 Corinthians 11:30, 10:12, :1-21\nActs 12:19-23\nRomans 3:27, 4:2\nMatthew 23:6-12\nMark 12:38-39\nLuke 18:9-14\nProverbs 16:18, 8:13
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Leviticus 11:7 - And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. \n\nThis chapter talks about what you can eat.
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i found a bible search c link below\nhope u find what u need.\n:)\nit's 1 of my favourites.
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There's a passage I got memorized,\n                       seems appropriate for this\n                       situation: Ezekiel 25:17. "The path\n                       of the righteous man is beset on\n                       all sides by the inequities of the\n                       selfish and the tyranny of evil\n                       men.  Blessed is he who, in the\n                       name of charity and good will,\n                       shepherds the weak through the\n                       valley of darkness, for he is truly\n                       his brother's keeper and the finder\n                       of lost children.  And I will\n                       strike down upon thee with great\n                       vengeance and furious anger those\n                       who attempt to poison and destroy\n                       my brothers.  And you will know my\n                       name is the Lord when I lay my\n                       vengeance upon you."\n\nAlthough its a very inaccurate quote if you actually check that passage in a bible.
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There is more to the rape law. Back up to Deuteronomy 22:23-24 (NAB) \n\n"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife."\n\nNow, if you read Judges 21:10-24, Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 20:10-14, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Deuteronomy 22:23-29, 2 Samuel 12:11-14, Judges 5:30, Exodus 21:7-11 and Zechariah 14:1-2, it's pretty clear the God actually APPROVES of rape and even uses it as a reward for his minions.\n\nIf you actually read the Bible, you'll find that God really doesn't give a whooping fundt about women. Women are property.\n\nWhat you are reading in Deuteronomy 22:28-29 is property law. Raping a mans betrothed is not about whether it is right or wrong to rape someone. It is about the punishment for devaluing another mans property. If you read very carefully, you'll notice there is no prohibition on raping a woman who is not betrothed, that is to say, the property of another man.\n\n-SD-