Everything Wrong With Numbers 28 in the Bible

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[@maggiesmom202]

From what I've seen, it was pretty common to sacrifice animals and the best of your crops to all kinds of gods. ( think golden calf) This particular God wanted everyone to know He was special , so He required a special offering. In return, God gave them protection. He also came to realize what a huge burden this was for the people, hence the "Lamb" of God, or the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We no longer have to do this.

[@hughwozzit4301]

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[@John73John]

God: Instructs Noah to save all the animals from going extinct. Also God: Instructs the Israelites to drive their farm animals to extinction.

[@KianaWolf]

God: Can conjure the entire universe and all life out of nothing, just by speaking. Also god: Didn't think to just speaking more animals into existence instead of leaving his followers in a methane-filled box for months. The wisdom of god is a pretty low bar.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

John73 John Where and when does God instruct the Israelites to drive their farm animals to the edge of extinction?

[@John73John]

@@Daniel-cz7kd The chapter we just read

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@John73John Well, tell me which verse/verses says “God instructed the Israelites to drive their farm animals to extinction.”

[@John73John]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Did you watch the video? Go to any shepherd, cattle rancher, etc. and ask them if they could afford to sacrifice 365 animals per year and still be able to stay in business. Then tell them about all the extra sacrifices they need to make on top of that for all the other special days. Now put that in the context of a bunch of bronze age goat herders who don't have the benefits of modern technology (i.e. antibiotics to keep them from randomly losing half the herd to disease). How are they going to have any animals left after all this?

[@mender722]

If these people were "wandering in the desert" for 40 years, where did they get all the produce? I can't wrap my head around how much extra produce and animals were needed for all the sacrificing on top of what they needed to eat. I have mathematical problems with all this. When I was a believer, I never gave it a thought. Now, well, things are different.

[@theotherworlddream1]

It's more than that. Remember all the gold and fine threads and linen were required to make the ark of the covenant? Well, when you're in a hurry after basically being evicted do you pack only the essentials or fill your luggage with building materials???

[@AmityvilleFan]

The stole it from the egyptians, if you remember. With all the gold and stuff.

[@thomasfplm]

To be fair, nomadic people can have herds of animals. The production of grains and wine might be harder.

[@theotherworlddream1]

@@AmityvilleFan it doesn't matter where it came from. If you're in a rush to get out of someplace especially for a long trip that you have to walk . . . Are you going to take along heavy building materials I can gold and silver and copper? Are you going to pack things like food and every other thing that you'll need to survive? What good is gold when you're dying in the desert?

[@AmityvilleFan]

@@theotherworlddream1 You definitely bring gold and silver, God specificaly told the Arian Race to rob the egyptians blind of those. Exo.3.22, Exo.11.2, Exo.12.35 Btw, no wonder those people always died of hunger and thrist. None said they were smart. Like, ya know, they had all those animals, and never made food out of 'em?

[@CarolineIronwill]

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[@TheForgedReality]

He should do a similar study on tarot card scammers.

[@MegaChickenfish]

God mentions DOZENS of times how every single blood sacrifice ritual has to be done with the FINEST FLOUR and ONLY THE JUICIEST OF OLIVES PRESSED INTO OIL, over and over and over again, but never once bothers to put the words "do not rape" anywhere in the book.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

MegaChickenfish How much of the Bible have you read?

[@amberinthemist7912]

Oh it specifically says men shouldn't rape other men. It's just the women who don't really matter.

[@kevinvorster9777]

Rape is condoned in the bible. There's specific instructions to rape. And kill the babies.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Enough - more than enough. We have Deuteronomy 21, and Exodus 21. And it is historical fact that husbands in past medieval Christendom had a laxer view on coerced intercourse with their wives, than we do since the 19th century onward. If this was a 'stiff necked and obstinate' people, then maybe SOME things bear repeating, if they were TRULY valued? And more than just excessive lists of burnt offerings, oils, etc?

[@Malidictus]

What I learned from this chapter is that God repeats Himself a lot. Remember "the long lobe of the liver"? I have the same response to "the finest flour mixed with olive oil" now. You say "finest flour" and my brain finishes the thought on its own. Just give that dish a name and make it easier on everyone.

[@alguno1010101]

he's definitely senile

[@TBomb39]

Imagine going to a fancy restaurant and ordering boiled lobe of liver and their finest flour mixed with olive oil. They'd look at you kinda funny, but you could tell them that it's the food of the gods.

[@kevinvorster9777]

These people has been wondering around the desert for decades, leaving at random whenever the cloud gets bored. Where are they getting this grain, olives and grapes from. Also don't forget that the priests are to eat the offerings and drink the wine.

[@alguno1010101]

they sacked some cities that were part of the wilderness, apparently

[@kevinvorster9777]

@@alguno1010101 "thou shall not steal."

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@kevinvorster9777 Who’s stealing?

[@ogg5949]

@@kevinvorster9777 to the victor goes the spoils! That's the fancy way of saying that their god told them to murder 1000s of ppl so they could get all the dead ppl's stuff. 🤪So technically it's not stealing, it's murder. But if god told them to massacre ppl that makes murder ok. There's just no way to make the bible seem logical or reasonable. It's all such hypocritical b.s.

[@floptaxie68]

All this shit was written for priests to live off the Israelites, all ancient civilizations had priests living off people

[@soft-p4g]

Nothing more important to me than this weekly bible studies 👍 keep up the good work

[@yadabub]

"Defects" aren't going to affect the "pleasing aroma" of burning animal flesh. They might offend the priests' stomachs, however.

[@Craxin01]

Damn, it's going to be more than a thousand dead lambs a year. They don't exactly grow on trees. Even a massive herd is going to have a problem cranking out that many lambs JUST for slaughtering, splashing its blood about, and setting its carcass ablaze, much less replenishing the herd's numbers.

[@RechtmanDon]

...and a partridge in a pear tree! (Properly roasted, mind you.)

[@joyceandrews1617]

What have we learned from this chapter? We learned that God is an alcoholic, guilty of the sin of gluttony and after having a man stoned to death for picking up sticks on the sabbath he has know problem making people work to prepare him a feast on the sabbath.

[@alguno1010101]

Christians say that all the sacrifices became obsolete because of Jesus' sacrifice, but I don't see a guy who likes the aroma of dead baby creatures so much getting satisfied with a single dude, even if he was his own avatar on Earth.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

alguno1010101 What’s the problem with Jesus’ sacrifice that you don’t see?

[@carlwallace448]

Hemant my brother. You have been so helpful to me. My years of following the Christian faith has truly been a lifelong curse on me and my family. Im suffering now with bad luck and curses me and my wife encounters on a daily basis. I just wanted to vent alittle. Wish us more better luck for our future. Our first and only son just turned 2. I just hope we got out of the cult called Christianity in time. Thanks my brother.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

You would think that all of this slaughter would show up in the fossil record....

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

* archeological record.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Keri Rautenkranz Hardly

[@visaman]

Maybe it is, but God blinded us to it, like He hardened Pharaoh's heart?

[@kevinvorster9777]

Millions dead, but not one skeleton found, ever.

[@raywood8187]

I can imagine guys just sitting around spinning the arrow on a murder wheel to see what offering they would say god told them to write.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Ray Wood I can just imagine that too

[@knittingnana2939]

An ephah is roughly equivalent to a bushel. Thats a LOT of grain being wasted.

[@bellezavudd]

"Yahweh needs an intervention ! Glutton, hoarder, sadist"

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Belleza Vudd And what do you have in mind?

[@bellezavudd]

@@Daniel-cz7kd It's a quote from the video. Did you watch it ?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@bellezavudd Sure, I wrote down the quote myself, you’ve not written it down correctly, but then it’s part of the stupid things he stated he says, so I needn’t bother.

[@bellezavudd]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Its not a test or anything formal dude. I've written down the only relevant words and specified the god. Are you just trolling ? Cuz youre not really saying anything yet .

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@bellezavudd Yes he is trolling. It’s a pathetic troll with too much time on his hands.

[@rhondawest6838]

How Christianity really started, "Okay, Yahweh, we can't afford to sacrifice all our lambs and calves and grain. How about we do this one guy and be done with it?"

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Maybe it was more like the Clergy realizing: "People are laughing at us so let's make up something slightly less unbelievable?"

[@JosephKano]

Sounds legit.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Rhonda West Hardly, Christianity’s never mentioned nor appears anywhere in the Old Testament

[@rhondawest6838]

@@Daniel-cz7kd that's right, because they didn't become Christians until after they sacrificed that one guy. And Paul came up with some other stuff. I may have skipped a few things.

[@JosephKano]

@@rhondawest6838 it's just Daniel being Daniel. Daniel is a well known Theist troll.

[@ericrietvelt1970]

Who is God? Gordon Ramsey? Cooking with God.

[@KianaWolf]

If I had to choose between eternity trapped with the christian god or Gordon Ramsey, I'd take Hell's Kitchen. At least then I'd be learning new skills with my time.

[@kevinvorster9777]

Gordon has much better recipes than god. Ramsey would never serve burnt long lobe of liver and baby goat boiled in its mother's milk.

[@Apostate1970]

It always struck me that the real purpose of these offerings was to feed the priests and temple servants, their families, etc. Religion Industrial Complex

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Maybe a Religion Pre-Industrial Complex?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

John Paul Jaubert That’s half correct.

[@kevinvorster9777]

Its the oldest and biggest scam in history, and it's still going on today.

[@richardmooney383]

Seems to me the Israelites cannot have had many year-old lambs "without defect" left after giving so many to the Lord. No wonder there's so few of them now - all their best breeding stock went up in smoke, literally!

[@Timon42]

I’m curious as to where they are finding all these one year old animals every day, week, month, etc.

[@ActiveAdvocate1]

Jeez, God is hangry. I've also never heard a better case for vegetarianism.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Active Advocate Are you a vegetarian?

[@ActiveAdvocate1]

@@Daniel-cz7kd, no, I can't. I've got issues with bleeding and iron retention. I WOULD be for moral reasons, otherwise.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@ActiveAdvocate1 What does vegetarianism have to do with morals anyways? Where does God say that killing an animal is morally wrong and therefore, as Hemant states, murder?

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@ActiveAdvocate1 don’t feed the troll

[@BaronTomR]

So why isn't the oil special? He wants the finest flour and animals without defects, but just says to toss in some oil, with no proportions or saying the type of oil.

[@TBomb39]

Virgin olive oil. The bible always demands some type of virgin.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@TBomb39 not extra virgin?

[@garryferrington811]

Motor oil's okay. He's just letting one thing be easy. No synthetics, though.

[@VernonSwanepoel]

It's rather interesting selection pressure, kill the lambs without defect. It must have been harder and harder to find lambs without defect.

[@iamnoone9041]

What the hell kind of benevolent being enjoys the smell of burnt animals, and makes his people sacrifice so many animals when they need those animals for food? Between that and all the contradictory rules leads me to thinking they got tricked and are worshipping some dark twisted being more akin to the devil.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Bingo! Someone has clearly switched the "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy" labels of the deities in this fairy story book....

[@visaman]

Remember that the Devil was once the most favorite angel Lucifer

[@kevinvorster9777]

Compare how many people Satan has harmed (8 on Yahweh's blessing) and how many Yahweh has killed and tortured while demanding worship (Billions). Who's truly the evil one?

[@mkstar12]

Are there any rams, lambs, bulls, goats, or any livestock left?

[@andystokes8702]

Serious question because I really don't know - What exactly is a 'burnt offering'? All of these bulls and lambs that are burnt offerings, to what extent are they burnt? Are they burnt to the point of being cremated or are they burnt to a lesser extent, sort of barbequed? If they are cremated their ashes can be scattered to the wind, but if they are merely barbequed what happens to all the meat? Does somebody get to eat it, presumably God can't eat it, he just likes the aroma apparently.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Moses, Aaron & Sons (the Priest class) get to eat it! Burning lots of large livestock to ashes takes a large amount of energy... more than one would think could be obtained by Bronze-age charlatans in a desert, so probably a lot closer to BBQ than ash.

[@TheWampam]

I think you burn some parts. I think what exactly is to be burned was written somewehere between the commandment not to cook a lamb in its mother's milk and Aaron's son dying because the didn't make the fire the right way.

[@TravisTarrant]

@@TheWampam Because of the rule of not cooking a lamb in its mother's milk, most Jews interpret that to not combine dairy and meat from any animal that produces milk so they will not eat cheeseburgers, meet on pizza, etc.

[@andystokes8702]

@@TravisTarrant My understanding is that the commandment was not to boil a kid goat in its mother's milk. Not entirely sure that is the same as making a burnt offering, boiling is not the same as roasting or grilling.

[@TravisTarrant]

@@andystokes8702 I was referring to the boiling the calf in the mother's milk part of your statement. Sorry for any confusion on my part.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Moses reads list of animals, 'Thanks, God... but I can't eat all of this as my last meal...' God: Last meal? This is all for me... and I want you to prepare it for me.' Moses: Is there another god I can worship around here? One that isn't such a bastard?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Bruno Zeigerts Interesting, so where in the Bible is that text between Moses and God found?

[@brunozeigerts6379]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Wow, you really don't understand humour, do you? Are you pretending to be obtuse or are you that dense?

[@kevinvorster9777]

@@Daniel-cz7kd do you understand the concept of humour and sarcasm?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@kevinvorster9777 Sure, do you understand the concept of putting words in the mouth and blasphemy?

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@Daniel-cz7kd blasphemy is a victimless crime

[@JonasLindekrantz]

the whole concept of the bible or similar religion is that it is disturbed from what reality is and so becomes its followers

[@ArielVHarloff]

I wonder where those people were supposed to get all those animals. I also wonder where they're constantly getting baby animals from. Most animals have seasons in which they breed and if you're half a year out from that finding an animal that's exactly a year old should be borderline impossible XD

[@lh1673]

So true and good point, I also asked my indoctrinated family how did they ever had so many animals sacrificed while constantly moving in the wilderness, but they were just silent 😅

[@flowingafterglow629]

So Christians defend the whole "Jesus died for our sins" by claiming that a blood sacrifice is "required" to atone for sins. But if you read these passages that lay out the law requiring a blood sacrifice to atone for your sins, you quickly come to the conclusion that this is a bunch of arbitrary nonsense. "I need lambs! I need goats! I need olive oil and the finest flour! And more wine! It is a pleasing aroma to the Lord!" Notice that it wasn't just that the thing had to die, it was that sacrificing it on the altar made a "pleasing aroma." Puts that whole "sacrificed his own son" thing into a whole different light, doesn't it? The pleasing aroma of human sacrifice.... That's....disturbing.

[@sdlorah6450]

I do not understand everything about the combustion engine and the mechanics of a car, but that does not prevent me from enjoying the benefits of a car and driving! I do not understand everything about how food is digested and used by my body to keep me alive and healthy, but that does not prevent me from enjoying the benefits of regular eating! I do not understand everything about God and his ways, but that does not prevent me from benefiting from what he has done to provide eternal life for me through the giving of his Son!

[@KeriRautenkranz]

All the while shouting loudly : "There is no Blood Magic in the BuyBull!!!" 😆

[@TBomb39]

@@sdlorah6450 Flawed analogy. Cars exist, human bodies exist, and both can be studied and understood. We don't know if gods exist, they can't be studied or understood because we lack a specimen. Equating reality with imaginary is fallacious.

[@sdlorah6450]

@@TBomb39 People are blessed and benefit from many things every day that they have never studied, nor understand. These are gracious gifts of God, our Creator. If there are scientists that devote their entire professional career to the study of the honeybee and cannot exhaust that study, then it is fair to extrapolate that there are many things in this world that we will likely never understand! We are dependent upon God and his word to tell us about things that we could not know otherwise--the existence of hell, for example, and how men can only avoid that fate as judgment for their sin through faith in the only Savior of men, the Lord Jesus Christ. The knowledge that can save a man is found in the Bible, not under a microscope. Creation, men's consciences, the land of Israel, the Jews, the Bible, the church, the prophetic fulfillment of many Old Testament scriptures, the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ...all of these are works of God and are sufficient to lead us to the only knowledge that can save--that of Christ and his work on our behalf to save us from the wrath of God.

[@smpittsburgh264]

@@TBomb39 Sacrificial love is not something one can put under a microscope-but that is exactly what God says he demonstrated toward us sinners in giving his life for us, his enemies: For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8) It is not ‘logical’ in our limited minds that the innocent Son of God would die on behalf of guilty mankind, but that is exactly what we must come to believe and trust if we are to be saved. Trust in the goodness and the knowledge of God as shown us in Jesus Christ and be saved! (see 2 Corinthians 5:18-21) ...blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed (John 20:29b).

[@DruncanUK]

Moses was getting short on groceries again? No problem, just tell the tribes the Lord needs more sacrifices! I can't believe all those Israelites actually believed this scam.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

I find it difficult to believe that people STILL believe this scam! But they do....

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Artful Bodger What makes you think any of this is a scam? And why should that bother you in the first place?

[@DruncanUK]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Bother me? I find it hysterical that two conmen convinced thousands of tribesmen to give them the very best of their food and wine. Well done Moses and Aaron. 🤣🤣

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@DruncanUK And what makes you think any of it was a scam or there were conmen?

[@davidkent5626]

I have to ask a question. Does everyone have to do this sacrifice or is it one that covers the whole population? If each person has to do their own sacrifice, where do they get the billions of animals a year needed?

[@truthgiver8286]

God said I am the Lord thy God I am a hungry god!

[@KeriRautenkranz]

In the world of Fiction, all things are possible!

[@riffhammeron]

I think it was to be done by the priests each day.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

David Kent Are you asking for understanding or in jest?

[@davidkent5626]

@@Daniel-cz7kd more along the lines "what were the writers thinking when they wrote it?" That's the one thing about reading the bible is how vague they make everything. If it was "divinely inspired" it would have more depth and less repetition since each person who was writing would know exactly what was needed.

[@tealx8462]

You do know that there were people around the world, at this time, who still didn’t know anything about this God and these rituals!!!!

[@stlfatman]

The one commandment: god needs booze!

[@somdavarya8078]

Man; Why does God want to eat and drink when it is not human?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Som Davarya What do you mean by that?

[@johnf536]

Luckily the demands were for animals that the people had. I was hoping that the demand would be for animals a little more difficult to obtain such as penguins or kangaroos.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

"... and then you must chop down the mightiest tree in the forest with.... A Herring!"😄

[@amberinthemist7912]

This comment is gold.

[@antoinetteherrera9026]

Is God into eugenics? Seems like quite the obsession with perfection when it comes to burnt offerings.

[@jbar402]

Is there a calendar that shows all the offerings throughout a year? So far, I’ve found it difficult to remember how many and which days you do what. I’m trying to imagine all the other offerings for nonspecific days such as the sun offerings. It would be like trying to count how many’s licks does it take to get to the bottom of a tootsie pop.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Jon Barnett Many have been made and drawn up as part of the Biblical study, like my friend.

[@ianbraun271]

@Jon Barnett approximately 113 bulls, 32 rams, and 1,086 sheep. And these are likely just the Daily/Weekly/Monthly/festivals sacrifices. There are also all the sacrifices required for all the BS earlier in the bible, personal atonement, cleanliness etc. Also keep in mind, these are all unblemished, MALE animals.

[@jbar402]

@@ianbraun271 I guessing the unblemished were a shekel a dozen for all the senseless killings.

[@wamsterdam207]

These people in the wilderness or desert whatever you want to call it they didn't gave water unless it came by a miracle food had to be airlifted dropped from the sky how were they feeding all these animals where did they get them in the first place

[@KeriRautenkranz]

@Karl Dubhe Ah, but Magic is merely a sufficiently advanced technology so that the observer doesn't comprehend the workings. The BuyBull is clearly in the world of Fiction.. 😀

[@John73John]

Yeah and don't forget they were recently complaining about not having any food, so gawd had to create a ridiculous number of birds for them.

[@hughwozzit4301]

Sounds to me as though these rules were for when they eventually get to the Promised Land and settle in. Otherwise they make no sense at all.

[@oscargordon]

In Bible world, you get all the water you need in the desert by banging your stick on a rock. What I want to know is how they make all of the wine. Sure, wheat takes only a single season to grow, but grapes take several years before they start to produce fruit. Are there just fields of wild grapes everywhere?

[@John73John]

@@oscargordon Actually you're SUPPOSED to get water by speaking softly to the rock. Banging the rock with a stick voids the warranty, and God will make you strip your friend naked before killing him. Maybe they have another rock they can get wine from in the same way?

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Yahweh is back to demanding death from his subjects! Normality has been restored 😬

[@KeriRautenkranz]

"... Probability Ratio 1:1! We have Normality. I repeat, we have Normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem...." 😃

[@iancampbell1316]

I'm convinced that burned offering means barbecue. All that meat and the fixings is being eaten by the priests.

[@SPL0869]

Open question to any theist. WHY does a perfect being need all of this?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

S Actual question you want understanding or simply jest?

[@hakureikura9052]

@@Daniel-cz7kd question: which mental hospital did you escape from? You cant even answer a straight question. Well? Tell us. Why would a perfect being need this kind shit?

[@tomsenior7405]

God eats food? God eats food that is burnt? God eats burnt food that is served on specific days and dates? This makes absolutely no damn sense. Does God use a toilet after each feast? Who is God's plumber? Does God Brush and Floss after each meal? Who is God's Dentist?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Ever been to Tennessee? aka The Land That Dentistry Forgot. It is possible but unwise to live without plumbing or dentists. "God" is the product of Bronze-age charlatans who pre-dated plumbing, dentistry or even change of clothes by millennia... yuck!

[@tomsenior7405]

@@KeriRautenkranz Thank you. Yours is the best comment I have seen in weeks. Pure genius. Cheers.

[@donaldericksen5071]

so who is eating all these offerings? The lord certainly doesn't eat all this food-maybe the priest were stuffing their mugs-you think!

[@allenhecker]

I’d hate to be Gods Grubhub driver. I bet his tips suck.

[@kewakl8891]

rotting flesh. The lord is a vulture, who shall not want.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

To quote James Tiberius Kirk: What does God need with a ship? God sure does have an appetite and a raging alcohol problem...surely, all that couldn't be misappropriated to feed the temples and whatnot.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Sure does sound an awful lot like a billionaire demanding that we produce all their wealth, while saying it's a privilege to have time off...while working

[@nataliaborys1554]

Nothing like telling the Isrealites to give up two lambs a day to God. Like, let's assume someone's rich and has 100 lambs on their farm to start with. If he has to sacrifice two of them each day, then in 50 days he will have none. Now, you might say that the sheep are multiplying, however sheep pregnancy is about 150 days and has an average of 3 young per litter. So it takes 5 months to regenerate one and a half days of loss. It's not sustainsble at all.

[@Katzztar]

This ...menu.. of sacrifices is for the temple at Mount Siani, right? Is this the only temple they have at this time? I ask because I have to wonder what sort of dent this makes into the livestock and other materials that make up the sacrifices. I have to wonder how the people are able to meet the demands of these sacrifices? Wouldn't such a demand so often cause a shortage?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

It's pretty clear that no nomadic group of refugees could have or did make these sacrifices. Especially since there's no archeological evidence. So, it's obviously just Fiction.

[@visaman]

It wasn't a temple, it was a tabernacle. The 1st temple was built 440 years later by Solomon in Jerusalem. The tabernacle was a tent that could be broken down and put up again. Just like at a travelling circus.

[@visaman]

In 960 BC 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep were sacrificed in a two week period. The population at the time was 4 million men of fighting age.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Katzztar Are you asking an actual question for understanding or simply jest?

[@Katzztar]

@@Daniel-cz7kd A bit of of the first, and more of the second. I am curious how much animal sacrifices they made and how they could give up the best when they are young. that would mean the samples of livestock would be killed before breeding, and lesser stock continue breeding. Also, how much of the livestock is given up as sacrifice? Do they have enough left to eat? On the second, I am tempted to make a bad joke on why they went to war against their neighbors was to resupply

[@JoeBManco]

Didn't these people murder a man for gathering wood on the mandatory day off? Exactly how are they going to burn all the animals they slaughtered on their day off?

[@dj_tika]

What do we learn from this story? That children who grow up without a good education turn into oversized psychotic children?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

That some people will profess belief in the most unbelievable nonsense! That's what I learned from The BuyBull.

[@dj_tika]

@@KeriRautenkranz That's another way of putting it 😂

[@barbaradean6424]

It should have only taken 22 days to walk from Egypt to Israel. How come it took 40 years...

[@Marius011]

I think I understand why the pre-Israelites wrote into their scripture that they could slaves. With all of the ceremonial days of rest and superfluous, wasteful sacrificial rituals, they had to have someone else do the real work for them. So they took slaves to keep up with these various rules. I see comments on this page and others asking, "how did they have all this food, etc.?" The answer is slaves. They had slaves do the work them while they felt all their self-pity.

[@mikebeagley]

So if YHWH created everything: 1. Whereabouts is YHWH that the aroma of a single BBQ will be noticed by them and determined as "pleasing"? 2. If you know anything about animal husbandry, you know that you do not continually cull your best (defect free) animals. Those are your breeding stock, unless you want a progressively inferior flock / herd. 3. Is killing / butchering / cooking / burning activity not work? That means they need to do these things BEFORE sabbath days? I guess the flies and maggots on meat cooked the previous day all add to the "rituals"? 4. What did they do with all the charred carcasses? Kinda seems like there'd be a whole lot of vermin and opportunistic critters as well as swarms of flies following around after these superstitious wanderers. 5. Where did the finest grain flour come from? They are in a desert which is not overly likely to support a crop, plus they are not going to be doing a lot of wandering if they need to stay in one spot long enough to tend to a field. If any fields were able to be planted, the amount of livestock travelling with them would have eaten it down to the roots before anything could be harvested. 6. Where did all the olive oil come from? Takes quite a while to get an olive tree to produce olives. It could not be all from what they brought from Egypt as oil goes rancid and would certainly not last 40 years. The ONLY way any of these writings make any sort of sense is if they were invented by priests who had found a way to get the stupid but wealthy and superstitious herders to feed them. If you consider that the only things described are what ultimately gets eaten by the priests, there's a whole lot more killing required to feed the millions of others in these desert wandering tribes!

[@63terrence]

I don't like lamb, but I like cow, piece of bread and dilled okra

[@isab2376]

So many things don’t make sense when it comes to the Bible’s claims… Just imagine the incredible logistic it require to have 2 male lambs of EXACTLY 1 year old sacrificed every single day (+extra during the sabbath). Just think about this. This means to have enough adults to produce that amount of lambs, and to make sure they are 2 birth every day, lambs that will be sacrificed in one year time… And I don’t even count the amount of other food required only to be sacrificed to please god… And you also need to feed all those people wandering in the desert! With no food/ grass for the animals, no water, no shade… right! When you begin to think in term of simple logistic, it’s totally impossible…. Utterly ridiculous.

[@mitchellminer9597]

There is no archeological evidence at all for the slavery in Egypt or the Exodus. What there is, is lots of evidence that Egypt conquered the Bible area and occupied it for a good while. (I can't link, the Museum of Israel has an article.) The Egyptians left to go back home, so this part of the Bible is some revisionist fiction. This particular book is probably a distraction to keep readers from looking at the big picture. I hope the priests had some good recipes for lamb.

[@smpittsburgh264]

I recommend the documentary titled Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus to you.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Sounds like Yahweh needs to join Alcoholics Anonymous...and Overeaters Anonymous. "I'm Yahweh... and I have an ... addiction problem.;

[@cfltheman]

Is there one for those who is addicted to killing or genocide?

[@no1ofimport271]

"Hello Yahweh."

[@margaretbarrett6087]

And an anger management course would be useful.

[@joaquingutierrez3602]

Ay caramba this god just like to eat and drink. While the poor Israelites are starving 😮😔😤

[@JosephKano]

No wonder they had no trouble believing the surrounding cultures were doing human sacrifices. Cheaper by far.

[@QueenBoadicea]

4:13 So, on top of god's other problems, he's a raging alcoholic.

[@klitzkop]

I think its a scam. Someone has a monopoly of the lambs. Those who can pay, for the lambs will be for given. Everyone else will be pt to death.

[@grapeshot]

Yahweh primadonna

[@davesimms8825]

Is there any evidence that this ever happened?

[@kellydalstok8900]

None

[@garryferrington811]

Well, there should be massive dumps of animal bones, but nobody has ever mentioned them.

[@dave9242]

I'm curious if anyone still does any of these rituals on a daily basis?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

I'm curious if anyone ever did all of these rituals as commanded, ever.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Dave How do you mean?

[@dave9242]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Do people still burn animals for God?

[@janimaryam5981]

I think samaritans. Muslims also sacrifice a lamb on their other Eid *I don't remember the date), at the beginning of the year (like, January or February)

[@visaman]

No, that was all done with when the 2nd Temple was destroyed in 70 AD.

[@foppishdilletaunt9911]

Moishele, dead man schlepping. YHWH needs to open up a shrive through…

[@andrewwhite6178]

I just want to know, is this still happening in Israel today?

[@ritawing1064]

There are people breeding red heifers somewhere in the hopes that the temple is going to be restored. The Jerusalem temple is the only place sacrifices can be made. What a miserable, bloody business it must have been

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Probably. Mostly the current occupants are just slaughtering their human neighbors who actually worship the same deity.

[@visaman]

No. It stopped in 70 AD. The Romans destroyed the temple and the Jewish faith had to start over from scratch. This is why there are no more priests in the Jewish faith

[@foppishdilletaunt9911]

YHWH needs to open up a shrive through…

[@tbbwolfy8584]

i have been wondering how they even are able to feed such a lifestock of animals in a Desert. we are talking of millions of animals bulls cows, sheeps and goats not to calculate in the dous. even all this animals need to give birth to new animals for offerings and for food. was we at around 600 000 males that was in the fighting age. if we put on like 10k elderly to the mix. we talking about over 3 000 000 lifestock for offering of sheeps around 1.2 mills bulls around 610 000 goats. not to say all that oliver oil and flour also needed. same time it will take an army of preist to slaughter all those animals and burn them get rid of all the leftovers of dead animals. not to say how many fires that have to be lit in that area for burning all those offerings. A desert probably low on firewoods too. We are talking so insane numbers that a nomade ppl wont be able to take care of so large numbers as we are talking here. I call the hoax of these chapters. if we talking a couple of 100 ppl it might be possible but we arent we are talking 100 000 of thousind of people that needed to do those offering. guess thats the reason they was 40 years in the desert. they couldnt go no where because moses and his childrings and grand childrings and so on have to spend all day every day killing animals and burn parts for a IAHVE.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Maybe it wan't a desert before the Israelites arrived? 😄😄

[@tbbwolfy8584]

@@KeriRautenkranz Might be. also tried to investigate why there havent been found mountains of animal bones in Saudi Arabia, Jordan or other part of where whose 3 000 000 ppl have moved to get to Isreal. and really none such find have ever been registrated. even that it could tell a story of that Bible was truth Story and not just story that have been made to look better doing time. like when a fisher comes home and say he have been catching a 1m long Salman. when it was only 20 cm. and so on. really all those offering they had to have done i cant see was possible from slaves of egypt that have spend years upon years in the desert without really have any form of income. there gold and silver was used for mmm a tent and alters and a candelear and some table and a ark. rest for the clothing of mmm the priests... they hungry they are poor they cant have any flower left other than what they have been plundering from williges they have been conquering same time those smaller cities cant have had life stock and so on to make all those offering and food for such a flock of ppl count for anything

[@visaman]

The real sacrifices hit their peak in Jerusalem 400 years later

[@kevinvorster9777]

It wasn't 100 000. It's estimate that there were 3 million Israelites in the desert. Adjust your math and see just how ridiculous this story is.

[@tbbwolfy8584]

@@kevinvorster9777 i am sure that in firlst line i wrote i quote those 3 000 000 ppl have moved to get to Isreal. but thanks for worrying of my math. and yes i saw that episode too whne he talked of an estimated amount of 3 million people. and yes totally rediculous math of livestock that they would have had in a desert.

[@Musicswagg86]

God, the worst ubereats orderer 😑😒

[@constantinachristou3849]

God can smell?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Probably smells terrible!

[@Canalcoholic]

Point of information please, and preferably in metric, what is an ephah and what is a hin?

[@oscargordon]

It looks like you are new to this internet thing. Besides this thing called "KZbin" there is a thing called "Google". You can ask it questions and it instantly comes up with answers.

[@Canalcoholic]

@@oscargordon 1: I was here before this newfangled interweb thingy was ever invented. 2: I thought many other viewers might wonder the same thing, and might benefit from a reply. 3: I really couldn’t be arsed to Google, Ask Jeeves, or run any other web search for this information.

[@oscargordon]

@@Canalcoholic OK, so you thought there were other people who would like to know these old measurements, but you couldn't be bothered to provide these others who you were so concerned about with an answer. You expected some one else to do the work for you. What an entitled little twit.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

@@Canalcoholic Oh, fine. The almighty inter webs claim an Ephah is equivalent to about 35 liters and a Hin about 5.7 liters. Seems like rather large quantities of anything for nomadic refugees to have on hand.

[@oscargordon]

@@KeriRautenkranz See, that wasn't so difficult was it? And yes, the story is ludicrous to anyone who gives it a moments thought. But when you are programmed from childhood by the people who care for you and you trust to believe that these are true stories and your very "soul" depends on you believing them, you quickly learn to either put those thoughts aside or to twist your mind up in to bizarre apologetic responses.

[@Raylen_Fa-ield]

I love these videos. Thanks for helping me get through it. Been listening all week long. Ps bible is wack

[@Cliveygee3422]

Why fermented drink offering?????

[@visaman]

Wine has yeast

[@Cliveygee3422]

@@visaman I guess wine is safer to drink than God water?

[@kevinvorster9777]

The priests wanted wine with their meals.

[@Cliveygee3422]

@@kevinvorster9777 Did the priests eat the sacrifice meat, grain offering & drink the wine?????

[@kevinvorster9777]

@@Cliveygee3422 yes. It's commanded in Exodus that the priests gets the meat, wine and bread. Also the best clothes made from the finest linen.

[@JeffreyChadwell]

Call me crazy, but this seems really wasteful.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Oh, it's not you that is crazy... it's the Believers of this nonsense!

[@visaman]

How much food do we waste today?

[@smochygrice465]

🥰

[@Sarstan]

I came hoping to get some actual points about how the Bible is inconsistent, flawed, or of serious issue. Instead I got whining from someone who neither knows religion or basic history. Also at 7:43, just as one example, you either are being completely dishonest or painfully ignorant. Freshly killed animals are not "rotting flesh." I'm guessing you must be a vegan to think that animals being cooked (and eventually burned) doesn't smell good. Similarly you ignore the simple basis of what all this sacrifice is for. Just like all offerings from virtually all other cultures throughout history, it's to either pay for sins (as is the case here) or to appease the gods for their favor (such as the Romans, Greeks, Gauls, Anglos, any number of Africans, Chinese, and nearly all other cultures in the world). In any case, at the very least you can make a valid point about the Bible being wrong or something instead of complaining about how hard it must have been. Maybe that's the point. Jews were treated poorly throughout the Old Testament and God kept them very disciplined. Good job for pointing that out.

[@VixJustTryingOK]

👍🏼

[@allenhecker]

I think the lord needs to go on a diet.

[@63terrence]

Peta bread, no thanks.

[@ijcmartinez]

It's just how taxes were written into law back then -- it was for the sustenance and welfare for the whole community. There are other scriptural references besides the Torah to how things were done and to what end antiquity, and particularly the Isrealites, understood the godhead (יהוה). On a certain level, the Torah (also, among other things) the writen history of a peoples which does, as writing tends to do, codify governance of the nation (mind you, the nation-state is a relatively modern invention. in the grand scheme of history, unknown in antiquity ... and, taxes are, invariably, one of the functions that any kind of state will have to carry out -- post widespread adoption of agrarianism as the central feature of civilization). One cannot, also, presume that Moses or Isrealites understood the godhead in the same way us moderns do. The Lord, through the manifestation of his/her creation, needs to eat; and, it does sound delicious, especially in a time when McDonalds wasn't on every corner

[@arielle2745]

💗💖💓

[@mikehopkins2625]

I hate this book.

[@voiceofchrist8290]

Are God's people in the Bible?

[@smochygrice465]

No idea friend, never read the Bible books. Are they? Hope you are well brother.

[@oscargordon]

No, "words" are in the Bible. The Bible is collection of works of fiction. None of these people are real and none of these events ever happened.

[@TBomb39]

Are Gandalf's friends in LOTR?

[@smochygrice465]

@@TBomb39 Yes! I know this because I've read the book. 🙏

[@oscargordon]

@@smochygrice465 You, having read LOTR, have a leg up on the vast majority of Christians who have never read the Bible. Christians like to report how the Bible has had so many copies printed, but never report on how many of those copes have been read.

[@sm8johnthreesixteen]

There were many animal sacrifices in the Old Testament. These sacrifices were constant reminders of men’s sin and its consequences (Romans 6:23a). They foreshadowed the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ himself for our sins that our sins may be atoned for and we could be forgiven (see Hebrews 10:12). They foreshadowed the concept of an innocent one suffering in the stead of another. The animal blood shed pointed to Jesus’ blood being shed as the price for our redemption (Colossians 1:14). We can each have our sins washed away through personal faith in the only Savior of men, the Lord Jesus Christ, and his substitionary, sacrificial death upon the cross on our behalf (see 1 Peter 2:24).

[@kevinvorster9777]

Do you have any other source apart from your holy book to support your argument?

[@cabococarlos1936]

I liked your first videos it was pure comedy it was a lot of fun it was very funny today's videos I don't like it no

[@geekynerd7346]

Genesis is a livelier book than the rest of the Torah

[@CarolineIronwill]

It's not his fault. The bible gets repetitive after a while. Hemant only planned on doing the book of Genesis, but the series was so popular, he keeps it going for us. He has been doing this series, without fail, every week, for over 3 years. At this rate, it will take another 19 years to finish the whole bible. You try keeping it fresh for that long.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

@@CarolineIronwill This series by Hemant is one of the greatest public services in history!

[@KianaWolf]

Yeah, welcome to Numbers. Lots of repetitive, droning, boring garbage. Though if you stick it out to the end you'll be able to seriously claim that you're more familiar with the old testament than the majority of Christians. (Doubly so the evangelical american sort. Trust me, I was raised Baptist, they don't read the Bible. They read a handful of verses carefully removed from all context.)

[@riffhammeron]

You're only as good as your material

[@jadagijane2677]

Some miracles 1.Euchariatic miracles 2.Miracles of Lourdes 3.Our Lady of Fatima 4.Hiroshima Rosary miracle 5.Lepanto rosary victory 6.Our Lady of Guadalupe 7.Liquifaction of blood of St Janerius 8.Miracles of St. Anthony 9.Stigmatas of saints 10.Levitation os St Joseph of Cupertino

[@AmityvilleFan]

lol, so many BS :D

[@d.o.m.494]

Anything can be called a miracle, doesn't mean it is.

[@margaretbarrett6087]

If your god can intervene to perform a few magic tricks, why doesn’t he intervene to alleviate the suffering of millions of his starving and disease ridden children; I guess THAT “miracle” is out of his league.

[@GapWim]

There are already several of these which I know from the top of my head are BS. Not getting my hopes up for any of the others 🤣🤣

[@zobbukit]

Apparently you posted this 4 days ago....should have added that to your list of nonsense.