The Skeptics' Overrated Bible on Exodus as analyzed by Sheila Rangslinger

• 1:5 "And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls." But this contradicts Acts 7:14 which says there were 75. See here.
• 1:5,7 The Israelite population went from 70 (or 75) to several million (Ex.12:37) in a few hundred years. See here.
• 1:18-20 God rewarded the Hebrew midwives for lying to the Pharaoh, contrary to the verses in the Bible that forbid lying. See here.
• 2:11-12 Moses murders an Egyptian after making sure that no one is looking. Which may be cited against all those verses that say Moses was perfect...and whoops, SAB leaves out that he killed an Egyptian who was beating a slave. Guess SAB's pro-slavery.
• 2:14-15 "Moses feared" and "fled from the face of Pharaoh." But Heb.11:27 says that Moses did not fear the Pharaoh. See here.
• 2:18 Who was Moses' father-in-law? See here.
• 2:25 "God had respect unto them [the Israelites], contrary to the many Bible verses that say that God has respect for no one. See here.
• 3:1 Who was Moses' father-in-law? See above.
• 3:22 God tells the Hebrew women to break the eighth commandment. What SAB thinks is stealing was actually reparations for slave labor for hundreds of years -- and it was asked for< not stolen. See here.
• 4:2-9: God shows Moses some tricks that he says are sure to impress. First: Throw your rod on the ground; it will become a snake. Second: Make your hand appear leprous, and then cure it. Then, if these two don't do the trick, pour water on the ground and it will turn into blood. (That ought to do it!) And the problem is what? Other than anti-miracle bias, maybe SAB thinks these were just funny tricks, but these are exactly the sort of things that ancient people would find significant.
• 4:11 Why are some people born with disabilities? Because God deliberately makes them that way. Very creative. The word "make" here carries the meaning of appoint, preserve, or even reward and has nothing to do with creation. At any rate, was Moses' inability to speak a disability? The description is figurative, not literal (as in making people blind to the truth, not literally blind).
• 4:18 Who was Moses' father-in-law? See above.
• 4:21 God begins the process of "hardening Pharaoh's heart" (see also Ex.7:3, 13, 9:12, 10:1, 20, 27, 11:10, 14:4, 8), thus making it impossible for any of the plagues that God sends to have any beneficial effect. But according to 1 Samuel 6:6, God didn't harden the Pharaoh's heart; the Pharaoh did it himself. See here including links.
• 4:23 God threatens to kill the Pharaoh's firstborn son. Mere argument by outrage.
• 4:24-26 God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. Luckily for Moses, his Egyptian wife Zipporah "took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he [God] let him go." This story shows the importance of penises to God, and his hatred of foreskins. Those other than incompetent bigots with a sexual fixation, see here.
• 6:3 God says that Abraham didn't know that his name was Jehovah. Yet in Gen.22:14 Abraham names the place where he nearly kills Isaac after God's name, Jehovah. See here.
• 6:12, 30 In complaining about his difficulty with public speaking, Moses says, "Behold I am of uncircumcised lips." Maybe he should join Toastmasters. Maybe SAB needs a day job doing comedy routines.
• 6:20 Moses was the product of an incestuous marriage. Such unions are condemned in Leviticus (Lev.18:12 and Lev.20:19). Gee, even if true -- too bad they didn't time travel and find out.
• 7:3 God hardens Pharaoh's heart for the second time. But this contradicts 1 Samuel 6:6, which says that the Pharaoh hardened his own heart. See above.
• 7:8-13 God tells Moses and Aaron that when Pharaoh asks for a miracle just throw your rod down and it will become a serpent. So when the time comes, Aaron throws down his rod and it becomes a serpent. But the Egyptian magicians duplicate this trick. Luckily, for Aaron, his snake swallows theirs. (Whew!) Immediately after the magic show, God hardens Pharaoh's heart again, (contradicting 1 Samuel 6:6, which says that the Pharaoh hardened his own heart). See above, after all that whining.
• 7:17-24 After the rod to serpent trick, God tells Moses and Aaron to smite the river and turn it into blood. This is the first of the famous 10 plagues of Egypt. Unfortunately, the magicians know this trick too, and they do so with their enchantments. Shucks! Just how the river could be turned to blood by the Egyptian sorcerers after it had been turned to blood by Moses and Aaron is not explained. See here.
• 8:2-7 The second plague is frogs. Frogs covered the land. They were all over the beds and filled the ovens. But the Egyptian magicians did this trick too. (Did they wait until the frogs cleared out from the last performance before doing it again?) After the frog making contest was declared a draw, all the frogs died and "they gathered them together upon heaps; and the land stank." I bet. but at least it was all for the greater glory of God. SAB's ignorance aside, the frog plague was a direct strike at Egypt's religious life -- the Nile. The river, seen as a source of life, was turned into a source of plague. SAB's anachronistic silliness and argument by outrage aside, it was meaningful in this time and place.
• 8:17-19 Plague #3 is lice in man and beast. This is the first trick that the magicians couldn't do. After this the magicians were convinced that Moses and Aaron's plagues were done by "the finger of God," and they gave up trying to match the remaining seven plagues. I guess lice are harder to make than frogs. Guess so. And the problem is?
• 8:21 The fourth plague is swarms of flies, continuing the frogs and lice theme. And the problem is?
• 9:2-6 The fifth plague: all cattle in Egypt die. But a little later, in the seventh plague, God kills them again Ex.9:19-20. See here.
• 9:9-12 The sixth plague: boils and blains upon man and beast. After this plague "the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh" again, contradicting 1 Samuel 6:6, which says that the Pharaoh hardened his own heart. See above for this multiple fixation by SAB.
• 9:19-20 God kills all Egyptian cattle with hail. But according to Ex.9:6 he had already killed them all with the murrain. See above.
• 9:22-25 The seventh plague is hail. "And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast." And the problem is, what? Argument by outrage again?
• 10:1 God hardens Pharaoh's heart for the fifth time. But this contradicts 1 Samuel 6:6, which says that the Pharaoh hardened his own heart. SAB goes for quantity, not quality -- see above again.
• 10:4-5 Eighth plague: locusts that are so thick that they "covered the face of the whose earth." (Even over Antarctica?) SAB is the first Skeptic I have seen dumb enough to suggest this. The word here, 'erets, can refer to a parcel of land of any size.
• 10:20 God hardens Pharaoh's heart again (sixth time). But this contradicts 1 Samuel 6:6, Bla bla bla, see above.
• 10:21 Ninth plague: three days of darkness. The darkness was so this that the Egyptians couldn't even see each other. But the darkness knew how to avoid the Israelites, and so "all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings." And the problem other than anti-miracle bias is what?
• 10:27 God hardens the Pharaoh's heart for the seventh time. But take a guess.
• 11:4-6 These verses clearly show the mass murder of innocent children by God (see 12:29-30) was premeditated. See here.
• 11:9 God explains to Moses that he has been hardening Pharaoh's heart so that Pharaoh will not let the Israelites go. God says that this way he'll be able to show off his latest signs and wonders (by murdering little children). Ditto. I guess SAB would prefer that an obnoxious conquest-bent nation like Egypt be allowed to do all the killing.
• 11:10 God hardens Pharaoh's heart one last time "so that the would not let the children of Israel go out of his land." But this contradicts Bla bla bla for the 67327th time. See above.
• 12:12 God explains to Moses that he intends to "smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Mere argument by outrage; see link above.
• God will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. So I guess there must be more than one god. More than one elohim, anyway -- see here. Though I wonder if SAB ever says "Thor was the god of the Norse" and takes it to mean Thor actually existed...
• 12:15 " Seven days shall ye eat unleaven bread [during the Passover]," but Dt.16:8 says six days. See here.
• 12:29 After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh's heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished "there was not a house where there was not one dead." Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too. Of course there shouldn't have been any cattle since God already killed them with a "grievous murrain (Ex.9:6)." Well maybe he created some more so that he'd have some more to kill. See above for these repeated arguments. SAB was not nearly so repetitive in later books.
• 12:35-36 God encourages the Israelites to steal from the Egyptians. But stealing is forbidden in many Bible passages. See above, 3:22.
• 12:37 The Israelites went from a population of only seventy (Ex.1:5) to several million (600,000 men) in a few hundred years. See above, 1:5, 7.
• 12:40 This verse says the Egyptian captivity lasted 430 years, but Gen.15:13 and Acts 7:6 say it lasted for only 400 years. See here.
• 13:2, 12, 15 To commemorate the divine massacre of the Egyptian children, Moses instructs the Israelites to "sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix" -- all the males, that is. God has no use for dead, burnt female bodies. Ever occur to SAB that it was a break for the females? Hello, these can reproduce more!
• 14:4-28 After hardening Pharaoh's heart a few more times, God drowns Pharaoh's army in the sea [after he takes off their chariot wheels (Ex.14:24-25)]. By so doing he claims to have gotten himself honor. But this contradicts 1 Samuel 6:6, By now we'll just say, "Ah, shuttup." Of course SAB would prefer that Egypt have been allowed to enslave the entire ancient Levant, perhaps.
• 14:23 The Egyptians chased after the Israelites with "all Pharaoh's horses." But according to Ex.9:3-6 there wouldn't have been any horses, since God killed them all in "a very grievous murrain." See here.
• 15:3 "The Lord is a man of war." Indeed, judging from his acts in the Old Testament, he is a vicious warlike monster. But how can the same God be both a "man of war" and a "God of peace"? See here.
• 15:6 God's right hand dashes people in pieces. SAB's right brain doesn't get figures of speech.
• 15:8 God divided the sea with a "blast of [his] nostrils." Ditto.
• 15:11 "Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?" Gee, I don't know. How many gods are there, anyway? See above for this repeat.
• 16:29 No one is to go outside of his house on the Sabbath. But Acts 1:12 implies that it's OK to go for a walk on the Sabbath. And other verses say it is not necessary to keep the Sabbath at all. See here -- otherwise this is too simple-minded (though not from SAB, all things considered) and much less consideration than rabbis certainly gave the matter.
• 17:6 God stands on a rock and tells Moses to hit the rock. Then water comes out of it for the people to drink. God's such a clever guy! Sure, God should have been clever by making a McDonald's appear for SAB's amusement.
• 17:11-12 As long as Moses the magician keeps his hand up, the Israelites are successful in battle, but the second his hand falls, they start getting beat. Yes, and the problem is, what? Such symbolic actions were very important to the ancients.
• 17:13 Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword." And of course the Amelekites were just minding their own business - NOT. See here.
• 17:14-16 "The Lord has sworn [God swears!] So? that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." So God is still fighting Amalek. I hope Moses can still keep his hand up. Past the one battle specified? Hardly.
• 18:5 Who was the Moses' father-in-law? See above.
• 18:11 "Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods." Gosh, I guess there must be more than one. See above for the 876th time.
• 19:5 God favors Israelites "above all people." See here.
• 19:12-13 Any person or animal that touches Mt. Sinai shall be stoned to death or "shot through." Did Moses impose such severe penalties because he feared that someone might see him fake his meeting with God? I'm sure he was great at faking all the lightning and thunder as well as the smoke, to say nothing of all those timely plagues. Try here for the real reasons.
• 19:15 Moses, like a coach giving instructions to the team before the big game, tells the men to "come not at your wives" before he goes up to Mt. Sinai. SAB, like a modern bigot, has no sense of the sacred. See link above.
• 20:3 The first commandment ("Thou shalt have no other gods before me.") condemns those who worship any other than the biblical god. Yes, and the problem is, what? SAB thinks none exist, so they're all unequally real is his problem.
• 20:3-5 JW whine. We pass.
• 20:4 God forbids making any graven images. But later (Ex.25:18, Num.21:8) he provides instruction for the making of graven images. See here.
• 20:5 "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." Any god that would make such a statement is worse than jealous, although that would be bad enough. He is cruel and unjust as well. This statement is repeated and contradicted in other parts of the Bible. SAB is anachronistic as usual -- see here.
• 20:8-10 God forbids the breaking of the Sabbath. But elsewhere the Bible says it is not necessary to keep the Sabbath. See above.
• 20:12 "Honor thy father and thy mother." But Jesus said we must hate our parents (Lk.14:26), See here refuse to call anyone father (Mt.23:9), See here and not bother to bury our parents when they die (Lk.9:59-60)Actually odds are they were not dead here, but the guy was waiting for them to die. IOW it was an excuse. Plus we pass on the JW whine.
• 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill." Really? Then why does God command others to kill in many other Bible verses? See here.
• 20:14 God forbids adultery. But later he promotes it (Hos.1:2, 3:1). See here.
• 20:15 God forbids stealing. But sometimes he encourages it. See above.
• 20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness." But Paul and others are willing to lie a little to further God's truth (Rom.3:7, 2 Cor.12:16). See here and here.
• 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, ... nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's." In the Bible, women and slaves (servants in the KJV) are the property of men; they are his possessions -- like an ox or an ass. But in other places the bible says that it is OK to covet. See here, and sorry, apples and oranges on the property part -- one can "covet" a wife without regarding them as property. On slavery see here.
• 20:24 God gives instructions for killing and burning animals. He says that if we will make such "burnt offerings," he will bless us for it. What kind of mind would be pleased by the killing and burning of innocent animals? Unless SAB is a full vegetarian, it includes him. Hopefully he didn't grill anything on Super Bowl Sunday, unless he found a guilty animal somewhere.
• 20:26 God tells the priests not to go up the steps to the altar "that thy nakedness not be discovered thereon." (Skirts on stairs are a problem.) See "here.
• 21:2-6 God sets down the rules regarding Hebrew slaves. You can buy one, but you must set him free on the seventh year. But if you have "given" him a wife and she bears children, then you get to keep the wife and kids. If he refuses to leave his family when his seven years are up, then bore a hole though his ear and keep him forever. (That sounds fair!) It is. See link above.
• 21:7-8 How to sell your daughter -- and what to do if she fails to please her new master. See link above, again -- such was an act intended to guarantee their survival. Does SAB prefer liberty or death?
• 21:10 God's instructions for taking a second wife. A survival tactic; see here. Also note it says he must treat her equally.
• 21:15, 17 A child who hits or curses his parents must be executed. See here.
• 21:16 Slavery is approved by God, and those who steal slaves must be killed. See above. I guess SAB approves of kidnapping, then.
• 21:20-21 It's okay with God if you slowly beat your slaves to death. After all, they are your money. It says nothing about slow beating. It says that a man will not be punished if his slave dies a day or two after a beating -- meaning that it would not be the beating that would be the cause of death. Meanwhile this is still more advanced than other codes of the day; see above.
• 21:22-23 If two men fight and cause a woman to miscarry, but do not hurt her, then the one who hurt her shall pay her husband an amount determined by the judges. Only if the woman dies is the punishment to be death. Apparently, then, with respect to abortion, God is pro-choice since he considers a woman's life to be more important that that of the fetus. See here.
• 21:24-25 An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It stops escalating revenge in an era before police forces. The problem is what?
• 21:26-27 It's okay to beat your slaves; even if they die you won't be punished, just as long as they survive a day or two after the beating (see verses 21:20-21). But avoid excessive damage to their eyes or teeth. Otherwise you may have to set them free. Oh well, it's a heck of a lot better than what would happen to you if you did it to a non-slave. (See verses 21:24-25) See link above on slavery.
• 21:28-29 If an ox gores someone, then both the ox and its owner must die. Yes, and what's the problem? Does SAB disapprove of putting dangerous dogs to sleep?
• 22:3 If a thief is caught and is too poor to make a complete restitution, then he is to be sold to pay for his theft. See link on slavery, yet again.
• 22:16 If you "entice" an "unmarried maid" to "lie" with you, then you must marry her, unless the father refuses to give her to you, in which case you must pay him the going price for virgins. A survival measure SAB still can't relate to -- see here.
• 22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse. If there really were witches changing weather, destroying crops, and leading people into eternal damnation, then what?
• 22:19 "Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death." Is it really necessary to kill such people? Couldn't we just send them to counseling or something? Maybe SAB can provide the addresses of counselors living in 1400 BC. See moreover here.
• 22:20 "He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." If this commandment is obeyed, then the four billion people who do not believe in the biblical god must be killed. Hello? This was in the signed covenant with the nation of Israel alone. See here.
• 22:21-22 Be kind to strangers, widows, and fatherless children. Good advice. It's a shame that the bible doesn't teach this consistently. See Numbers (1:51, 3:10, 3:38, 18:7), where God orders the Israelites to kill strangers; Num.31:14-18, where Moses orders the murder of all non-virgin woman (I guess that'd include most widows); and 1 Sam.15:2-3, where God commands Saul to kill every "man and woman, infant and suckling" -- which would include fatherless children. See on this here and here.
• 22:24 If you make God angry enough, he will kill you and your family with his own sword. If you listen to SAB long enough, he'll argue by outrage.
• 22:28 "Thou shalt not revile the gods ( is there more than one? See here), nor curse the ruler of thy people (even if the ruler is a tyrant? SAB reminds us of the pestiferous "what iffing" of Michael Martin found here.).
• 22:29 "The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt give unto me." (As a burnt offering?) No, in service -- see here.
• 23:1 Value the truth; don't lie. He likes it.
• 23:2 Don't do what everyone else does, if what they do is wrong. Ditto.
• 23:4-5 Be kind to your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Ditto.
• 23:6 Treat the poor fairly. Ditto.
• 23:7 Be honest. Don't kill the innocent. Ditto.
• 23:9 Don't mistreat strangers. Ditto.
• 23:11 Every seventh year the Israelites were to leave their fields unharvested, so that the poor would have something to eat. Ditto. Wow.
• 23:13 Don't even mention the names of the other gods. Ridiculous to SAB only because he thinks they're all equally unreal.
• 23:15 How long are we supposed to eat unleavened bread on the Passover? Six or seven days? See above.
• 23:17 Three times a year God wants to see all of the males. The females he never wants to see. Heck yeah. How nasty of God not to ask females to slough through harsh weather, over bandit-infested roads, etc.
• 23:19 "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in a kid in his mother's milk." What SAB apparently thinks is silly reflects an ancient pagan magical practice.
• 23:24 Do not allow others to worship a different god. Conquer them and destroy their religious property. To SAB no big deal, since all religions are fake and thus equal.
• 23:27 God promises to "send his fear before the Israelites" and to kill everyone that they encounter when they enter the promised land. Kill? The word means discomfit or disturb -- in line with the pattern described here.
• 23:28 God has hornets that bite and kill people. The hornet was a mascot for Egypt.
• 24:5-8 Moses has some animals killed and their dead bodies burned for God. Then he sprinkles their blood on the altar and on the people. This makes God happy. Meanwhile we know that SAB cries at BBQs.
• 24:9-10 Moses, Aaron, and seventy of their companions saw God. How could this have happened if no one has ever seen God? See here.
• 24:10 God has feet. Ditto.
• 25-30 Six chapters are wasted on divine instructions for making tables, candlesticks, snuffers, etc. The importance of such things to ancient peoples is wasted on the bigoted SAB.
• 25:18 God tells Moses to make some graven images for him, contrary to the commandment given in Ex.20:4 and Dt.5:8. See here.
• 28:2, 20, 40 God decrees that priestly garments, girdles, and bonnets shall be made "for glory and beauty." Yes, and the problem is, what? SAB thinks they should be ugly and nasty?
• 28:34-35Aaron must where a bell whenever he enters "the holy place" or God will kill him. Mere argument by outrage versus the notions of purity that were respected in this time. SAB says, God can have the leftovers.
• 28:42 God gives instructions for making priestly breeches. "And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs shall they reach." See again here.
• 29:11-37 Get some animals, kill them, chop up their bodies, wave body parts in the air, burn the carcasses, and sprinkle the blood all around -- in precisely the way God tells you. It may well make you sick, but it makes God feel good. Gee. Does it make SAB sick to go to the butcher shop, cut up the steaks, show them off to his football buddies, burn them on the grill, and watch the blood drip from the rare ones? But keep those strangers away from these animal sacrifices. I.e., people not invited to the party (covenant), or party-crashers, to put it in terms SAB will understand. Because God hates strangers just as much as he loves blood and guts and gore. SAB of course doesn't kill his own meat; he hires someone to do it for him. A stranger.
• 29:14 God instructs the priests to burn the dung of bullocks outside the camp as a sin offering. Yes, and the problem is, what? Would SAB rather they serve and eat the dung?
• 29:20-21 God tells Moses to kill a ram and put the blood on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on his right thumb, and on his right big toe, and then sprinkle the blood around the altar. Finally, sprinkle some on Aaron and his sons and on their garments. This will make them "hallowed." See here yet again to get a grip. This is consecration of all we hear, all we do, and where we walk.
• 29:22-24 God tells Aaron and his sons to take the rump, fat, caul, kidneys, and right shoulder of the ram and add a loaf of bread or two, and a wafer of unleavened bread. Then they put the whole mess in the hands of Aaron and his sons and they wave them before the Lord. This is a wave offering. This is called ignorant bigotry. It's no "worse" than Emeril Legasse does on any given show.
• 29:36, 38-39 Have your killed and offered your bullock for a sin offering today? How about the two lambs you are supposed to offer each day? Nope, we pay people to kill our cows, chickens, and lamb. Not bigots, though, they're out of season.
• 30:20 Wash up or die. This is a good verse to use when reminding the kiddies to wash their hands before supper. More like, to teach them about ancient conceptions of ritual purity and why they were so important for the survival of society.
• 30:33 Whoever puts holy oil on a stranger shall be "cut off from his people." Same issue.
• 30:37-38 And whoever uses God's favorite perfume will be exiled. Ditto.
• 31:14 Those who break the Sabbath are to be executed. But this contradicts several other Bible verses. See above.
• 31:17 God was tired after making heaven and earth. so he had to take a day off to rest up. But Is.40:28 says that God never tires. See here.
• 31:18 God's finger. SAB's ignorance of metaphor. Or is he a Mormon?
• 32:1-35 Aaron makes a golden calf and tells the people to take off their clothes and dance around naked. He does? Like to know where. God then punishes them mercilessly for following their divinely appointed religious leader. Oh. I guess there is no such thing as individual responsibility, huh?
• 32:10 God asks to be left alone so that his "wrath may wax hot." Yes, and what's the problem?
• 32:14 "And the Lord repented of the evil which he though to do unto his people." But how could a good God even consider doing evil to anyone? And how could an unchangeable God change his mind? Try this.
• 32:27-28 God orders the sons of Levi (Moses, Aaron, and the other members of their tribe that were "on the Lord's side") to kill "every man his neighbor." "And there fell of the people that day about 3000 men." Is this the same God who commanded "Thou shalt not kill" in Ex.20:13 and Dt.5:17? Well, maybe he changed his mind again. Maybe he just couldn't control himself then he saw that golden calf and all those naked bodies. Maybe SAB doesn't know what killing is and is fantasizing about naked bodies for lack of anything intelligent to do.
• 32:35 But God wasn't satisfied with the slaughter of the 3000, so he killed some more people with a plague. Who of course did not deserve it, as SAB, uh, proves...somewhere.
• 33:2 God promises to cast out many nations including the Canaanites and the Jebusites. But he was unable to fulfill his promise. See Land Promise series here.
• 33:11 "And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend." This verse directly contradicts several other verses which say that no one has ever seen God. Nice try. See here.
• 33:20 Immediately after being told about Moses' face to face encounter with God, we are told that it never could have happened, since, as God explains to Moses, "no man can see me, and live." Ditto.
• 33:23 Although God is too shy to let Moses see his face, he does permit a peek at his "back parts." (The divine mooning) SAB of course has rear ends on his mind. Is that all he thinks there is to his own backside?
• 34:1 In this verse God says he will write on the stone tablets, but in 34:27 he tells Moses to do the writing. See here.
• 34:7 God says that he visits "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation." But in Dt.24:16 and Ezek.18:20 he denies this and says that the sons are not punished for the sins of their fathers. See here.
• 34:11-14 God drives out the pagan tribes and commands the Israelites to destroy their altars and places of worship. Since again SAB regards all religions as equally false...
• 34:14 God, "whose name is Jealous", will not tolerate the worship of any other god. ...of course to him its no big deal. Paging 200 foot hoohoo god.
• 34:16 "Their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods." God always blames the women; it is they who "go a whoring" and then "make" the men "go a whoring." Gee, SAB missed v. 15 where everyone is pointed to. He also misses that the ancients did use sex as, um, evangelism -- see the case of Midian.
• 34:20 If you can't redeem him, then just "break his neck." Hey, it's all for the glory of God. Sure, SAB prefers that the slaughterhouse kill his steak for him.
• 34:23 "Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord." But what about the "women children"? Don't they ever get to appear before the Lord? Nah, they get to relax and not make the dangerous journey through open country with all the bears, lions, bandits, etc. I say demand equal rights NOW, ladies.
• 34:27 Moses, not God as is said in 34:1, writes the words on the stone tablets. See above.
• 35:2-3 Whoever works, or even kindles a fire, on the Sabbath "shall be put to death." But other verses say it is not necessary to keep the Sabbath. See above.
• 38:26 Seventy people (Gen.46:27, Ex.1:5) became several million in just a few generations (Ex.6:18, 20, Ex.7:7). For the billionth time, see above.
• 40:17 When was the tabernacle set up? This is cited versus Num. 1:1, but hello -- the latter says nothing about setting up the tabernacle.