Skimming through the books of moses I found the law of the Sabbath which plainly says that anyone who does work on the sabbath, or spetcifically kindles a fire on th Sabbath, will be put to death. That certainly makes the man who picked up sticks on the Sbbath guilty of the death penalty. Silly people who have no idea of the culture of the times or the Law that had alreayd been given loudly and carefully to the whole cogreegation imagine something trivial about the act of picking oup sticks. That's really what most if not all of the objections of Atheists to the God of the Old Testament amounts to in the end, just culturebound ignorance.
I also rand across the very brief episode of the Midianite woman being brought into the tent of an Isaelite man somewhere in the book of Numbers, which linked that act with the secuctions of the Moabites to their own gos through their women. That suggests to me that it was the participation in that corruption of the Israelites that brought the dire punishemnt on the Midianites that the atheists swo self righteously decry today. Again a case of context blindness.
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