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08-31-2003, 06:50 PM
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Herbal-induced abortion in the Bible?
Hi, guys.
 Months and months ago, there was a thread that showed a bible story that looked suspiciously like God sanctioning a herbal abortion in the Bible. I can't find the thread, and was wondering if you all-knowing scholars could help me out, please. Many thanks! |
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08-31-2003, 07:22 PM
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Numbers 5v16-28 looks like the story here.
Drink the bitter water and if you are pregnant with another mans child "her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot". -Gambit |
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08-31-2003, 07:30 PM
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Thanks!
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08-31-2003, 07:32 PM
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It's what I do.
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08-31-2003, 07:58 PM
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Here's the thread: Foolproof test for adultery
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08-31-2003, 09:38 PM
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Yep, that's the thread. Thank you very much, Toto!
P.G. - if that's what you do, you do it well. 
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08-31-2003, 09:55 PM
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Her thigh shall rot?
I've always said that atheists have as much an overactive imagination as any Fundy existant. |
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09-01-2003, 01:34 AM
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Um... Pennyroyal tea?
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09-01-2003, 10:17 AM
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09-01-2003, 08:17 PM
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(NRSV - 1989) When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall discharge, her uterus drop, and the woman shall become an execration among her people. (Geneva Bible - 1599) When yee haue made her drinke the water, (if she bee defiled and haue trespassed against her husband) then shall the cursed water, turned into bitternesse, enter into her, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be accursed among her people. (New Jerusalem Bible) After he has made her drink it, if it is true that she has made herself unclean and been unfaithful to her husband, the water of cursing then entering into her will indeed be bitter: her belly will swell and her sexual organs shrivel, and she will be an object of execration to her people. (New KJV - 1982) When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a curse will enter her and become bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman will become a curse among her people. It hasn't changed much throughout the years or per translation...that old black magic... This could revolutionalize divorce court. Imagine all of the private detectives out of work if word of this became widespread. There would suddenly be a huge market for that dust from the tabernacle. |
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