Everything Wrong With Numbers 33 in the Bible

[@rcblazer]

I would read a book from the Canaanites point of view. "Then a bunch of exhausted looking barbarians with really sore feet showed up and started attacking us, saying things like "You're on our land! The LORD wants you dead!"

[@dominickfletcher8502]

Sounds a lot like the Extreme White Christians saying that to Immigrants coming into America.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Sounds like a way better book than the BuyBull!

[@mitchellminer9597]

Rumor has it there used to be a pillar in Tangier in Morocco in north-west Africa with an inscription by the Canaanites complaining about Joshua. “WE ARE THE CANAANITES. WE ARE THEY THAT HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF THE LAND OF CANAAN BY THE JEWISH ROBBER, JOSHUA.” (From Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad.) If true, they must have got a ride in a ship. It would have been a long walk. My head-canon is that a random bunch of desert vagrants made up a story before they invaded, then tarted it up afterward.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

'The Lord wants you dead! He wants your family dead! He wants your house burned to the ground! He wants to be able to come to the ruins and piss on it!'

[@12Messenger]

Everything from your heartbeat, nervous system, breathing is finely tuned by the creator....just like a car just cant appear on a road....(the big bang or evolution theorists) it is finely tuned and manufactured in the production room. Stop listening to foolish man made ideas people. Wake up, there is a place called hell and heaven. Repent people. The good news is that its not too late. I've encountered at least 3 near death situations that my life was almost taken, even a fingernail wasn't short enough to describe it. And I want my brothers and sisters to consider God. No one will believe me but I witnessed a water hose that attaches to your house outside...cut on as if a human did it...full force. The very first time I could understand anything about God was from my Christian mother at age 12..she was telling me who he was and I questioned his existence ....literally the same day that night i took the trash out and my mother was the only one in the home.. after dumping the garbage I turned around and the water hose was blasting with water. My heart dropped to my feet. God isnt going to show you the same way he did me but look at the creation of earth and your body functions and genuinely ask yourself if this was all evolution or some silly man made idea.

[@TrappyJenkins]

Imagine you're at your lowest moment, down and depressed, you open up the book that means so much to you, looking for meaning. And instead of some deeply moving and profound piece of wisdom, you find this, mess.

[@fordprefect5304]

Do you mean the truth? Does the truth bother you or would yo like to continue to believe in fairy tales.

[@John73John]

Me, before I started the video: "I really hope this isn't just another list of people." So happy now... it's a list of places instead. That's so much better.

[@ericjanssen394]

Um...you DO know most of the OT was supposed to be a list of people? "But they talk about an ark!"...Noooo, they talk about whose son of whose got to "inherit" which piece of land afterwards. That's right: Even moderate believers are telling you you're reading three hundred pages of skewed politicized Ancestry printouts, to settle a cultural testate real-estate grudge (read "land grab"), at least until the actual spiritual stuff happens in the second half...Srsly, you didn't figure that out?

[@John73John]

@@ericjanssen394 I'm not sure what you mean, but "It's supposed to be just a bunch of boring lists" isn't really a good recommendation. Also for a record of who owns which piece of land, there sure is a lot of instructions about which animals you're supposed to sacrifice on which day and people being burnt alive because they got some detail wrong.

[@ericjanssen394]

@@John73John Who’s “recommending” anything? I was saying, if you tried reading it with Our Friend, Mr. Context, the first half is what is: An ancient Hebrew reference book, written by the people of its (politically grudge-bearing) time. Are you Jewish? Do you need a reference book dated 2000 BC?…No? Then, whyTH are you bothering? Do you think one guy wrote the whole book?? 🤷

[@John73John]

​@@ericjanssen394 Of course I don't think one guy wrote the book, although there are plenty who say it was all inspired by (therefore "written") by god. Again, I'm not really sure what your point is. The vast majority of believers I've heard say that this is god's very important message to all of mankind and we need to live our lives according to it. So I read multiple chapters of "these are the names of the sons and grandsons, and this is where they pitched their tent". Truly an important moral lesson there, thank you very much! That changed my life!

[@ericjanssen394]

@@John73John Ah, yes, the Atheist’s counter-argument that moderate believers who don’t act like their own views of fundamentalist boogeymen must somehow be doing it “wrong”, and then t’s their fault: “No, no, you’re not supposed to put it in historical context, you’re SUPPOSED to say it’s all real and burn any books that disagree, that’s what I saw on the news!” Oh, sorry, my bad. 😂

[@andreask.2675]

"They left xyz and camped at xyz." 40 times!!! What a beautiful, well written piece of literature this book is. 🤣

[@dovrosenschein147]

42 times. Talmudic tradition attaches symbolic significance to that number.

[@andreask.2675]

@@dovrosenschein147 And I thought 42 came from Douglas Adams... 🤣

[@1_GigaWaffle]

@@andreask.2675 Which really makes it even more hilarious)

[@andreask.2675]

@@1_GigaWaffle 🤣

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@dovrosenschein147 Numerology is just superstition. Most people grow out of silly beliefs like that during the second half of their teens.

[@BennyTwennyGrand]

These are truly the words of a tri-omni, all powerful deity. It ain't hard to tell.

[@AccidentalNinja]

They decided to recount every place they ever slept in the 40 years since leaving Egypt... & they got it wrong? Yup, perfect book...

[@Mar-dk3mp]

Why you westerng godless and souless person are obsessed with the Bible if you do mot believe in? That is so ridicolous is not? Please answer me... you want attack us, our Book and our Faith. Why??? Maybe because you do not have them?? I think you want just antagonize with us and have enemies for no reasons. But may god bless you and you family.

[@AccidentalNinja]

@@Mar-dk3mp Or because we constantly have people trying to get us to live by it through proselytizing or legislating, for it is a "perfect book". Then when we look into it honestly, we find that it isn't & get apologetics or people accusing us of attacking their faith for no reason...

[@ericjanssen394]

@@AccidentalNinja Will we EVER have an Atheist argument that doesn't at some point involve Nasty Crazy People Hiding Under Your Bed Waiting To Get You? (Yeah, they're so "crazy", they don't even read the first half of the book, not scrutinizing it under a microscope like normal people...)

[@chapeljohn9462]

4:58 is where I felt my brain turn to mush. 'They left' and 'and camped at' just feels like me typing a really bad role-play story.

[@dwaneanderson8039]

I'm always impressed by Hemant's ability to pronounce all of those weird names. I'd be tripping all over my tongue if I tried that.

[@isancicramon0926]

Don't be, it's almost painful to listen to. To be fair to our man here (i appreciate the work!), the English pronounciation of what are essentially Hebrew names, expressions, phrases, *makes no sense anyway* _nor the fact that some of them are translated_ (i still don't know why we get “Scorpion Pass” in ch.34 but “Pi Hahiroth” is left as is)

[@mitchellminer9597]

There is a museum in Israel that has a Exodus room, which is dedicated to artifacts from, and evidence for, the Exodus. The room is empty.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Mitchell Miner So what?

[@fordprefect5304]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Because it never happened.

[@fordprefect5304]

There are things in the room. There are at least 3 medieval paintings form Renaissance painters.

[@mitchellminer9597]

@@Daniel-cz7kd So the people closest to where it supposedly happened, whose religious and ethnic and national identity are all bound up in the story, who can only justify being there if the story is true, are openly and deliberately and honestly showing that they know there is no physical evidence for it.

[@joseph-thewatcher]

Imagine going on a journey with your relatives from New York to San Francisco and walking up to a stranger's house and telling the home owner that you now own the home and that they need to get their heathen ass and all their ungodly stuff out now because your god gave it to you for an inheritance. Then you burn all their possessions, kill the family (except for the little girl whom you use as a sex slave) and then take up residence in the house. Sounds righteously insane!

[@John73John]

...and force the little girl to marry you even though she's only 11 years old. You left that part out.

[@bladerunner3314]

The story of modern Israel.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Joseph Hoskins I’d disagree, sounds unrighteously insane, especially when going by some god or other.

[@joseph-thewatcher]

@@Daniel-cz7kd I agree that this type of behavior or mindset is not good or acceptable in any way. I used the word "righteously" because the indoctrinated Jews and Christians that give this type of biblical scenario a pass consider it the righteous judgment of god against evil doers. It's crazy that religiously brainwashed people can't see the heinous injustice contained within their cherished holy book, committed by biblical heroes of faith.

[@joseph-thewatcher]

@@John73John i fixed it. Seems more accurate that way.

[@sadderwhiskeymann]

Awesome!! More blood,a pleasing aroma

[@Malidictus]

Blood for the blood god?

[@sadderwhiskeymann]

Yeap, some blood magic too and He's good!!

[@amymills9228]

This series is the best bible study I've ever been a part of.

[@werewolfantipaladin]

So was Moses or whoever wrote this paid by the word? Reminds me of a high school student stretching out a report

[@John73John]

Yeah when I was in elementary school, the policy was that you could get excused from school for a vacation BUT you had to write a report on where you went and what you did. It had to be X number of pages long, so guess what I always did?

[@toddfallon179]

Word salad is a favorite tactic of sociopaths and some other (predatory) histrionic personality disorders, nothing new

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

werewolfantipaladin What’s the importance?

[@Mar-dk3mp]

Why you westerng godless and souless person are obsessed with the Bible if you do mot believe in? That is so ridicolous is not? Please answer me... you want attack us, our Book and our Faith. Why??? Maybe because you do not have them?? I think you want just antagonize with us and have enemies for no reasons. But may god bless you and you family.

[@Mar-dk3mp]

@@John73John Why you westerng godless and souless person are obsessed with the Bible if you do mot believe in? That is so ridicolous is not? Please answer me... you want attack us, our Book and our Faith. Why??? Maybe because you do not have them?? I think you want just antagonize with us and have enemies for no reasons. But may god bless you and you family.

[@rodhucker4901]

"All scripture is inspired of god". I guess inspiration was in short suppy after 40 years wondering in the desert. But...your redention at least made me laugh...and laughter is the best medicine for this diatribe!

[@tomschmidt381]

I did an internet search for: "exodus journey map" It not very direct but still hard to see how they could have spent 40 years wondering around, not to mention all the genocide god had them do.

[@joschafinger126]

With Yahwe as their leader and Moses as Yahwe's spokesman it kind of *does* make sense 😉

[@visaman]

God clouded their minds, so they didn't know where they were.

[@block4562]

@@visaman gee that's convenient. So god just spent those 40 years fucking with them because... I dunno what else does he left to do after creation? The old testament is just God blindly playing with his new toys with no goal, no rhyme or reason to any of it

[@visaman]

@@block4562 yes, that was for all their grumbling and wanting to go back to Egypt.

[@tomschmidt381]

@@visaman So much for supposed free will.

[@satinbarbi]

All that camping and no stories of cooking hot dogs over the camp fire.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Or marshmallows

[@satinbarbi]

@@kellydalstok8900 I know! They really needed a better recreation director. Moses was just not up the the task at all.

[@EvilGrin]

"How I spend my summer vaccation: Israelite edition"

[@QueenBoadicea]

I can see why Homer Simpson fell asleep listening to the bible. This book is the perfect cure for insomnia.

[@visaman]

On M*A*S*H* Father Mulcahy read the "Begats," at bedtime.

[@ronkelley5348]

The endless lists and formulaic way of describing things tells you that this was an oral tradition, probably for centuries, before anyone wrote it down. That's how bards and troubadours used to work. Homer's Iliad is similar and was probably an oral tradition for about 500 or more years before being written down. What evidence there is (if you assume it even happened at all which is doubtful) indicates the written text was first made at least 600 years after the events it talks about.... and that's the kindest thing you can say about it. Reality: myth, legend, and fable.

[@kellydalstok8900]

There is not a scrap of evidence for the myth, so it’s extremely unlikely it ever happened. Tthe ancestors of the Israelites were kept in captivity in Babylon instead.

[@ronkelley5348]

I agree - as I said the 'best' you can say about it is it's myth, legend, and fable. There is zero historical or archaeological evidence for any of it.

[@jamesha175]

my God is the Everlasting Sky. he is above your god, who seems to have a screw loose.

[@estherende9491]

"So, genocide. . . . " . Death of Moses, when?

[@merpie1017]

> when? 1271 BCE

[@harrylinka5227]

All I can say is wow and thank you for doing this because I'm really getting to know the Bible and I'm picking up some science from the other Skeptics good work I specially love the fossil series by Aron Ra he goes through nature it's pretty fascinating

[@kellydalstok8900]

Aron Ra?

[@harrylinka5227]

Thank you for pointing that out you knew who I meant though that's good

[@kellydalstok8900]

Glad you found him too.

[@Mar-dk3mp]

@@kellydalstok8900 Why you westerng godless and souless person are obsessed with the Bible if you do mot believe in? That is so ridicolous is not? Please answer me... you want attack us, our Book and our Faith. Why??? Maybe because you do not have them?? I think you want just antagonize with us and have enemies for no reasons. But may god bless you and you family.

[@alguno1010101]

that pause after "the King of Canaan learnt about them" just to go back to another list was comedic genius on your part

[@DruncanUK]

This is all very interesting, but when do they get to Mount Doom to destroy the ring?

[@Quvan]

Iigiyabarine! So heart touching. My eyes were riddled with tears after hearing that powerful moment! Iigiyabarine!

[@EliotChildress]

This is the first one that actually tested my patience. Maybe that’s the lesson we are supposed to learn from this ridiculousness😂

[@starrystarrynight52]

Called Numbers for the number of times they changed camps.

[@oscargordon]

It is about 450 miles from Memphis to Jerusalem. They made 40 stops in 40 years, so they traveled an average of 4.5 miles a year. I thought this was suppose to be a wilderness. Why does everywhere they stopped have a name already? How many inhabitants were already in these places? What did they think of 600,000 adult men, (except for all of those that Yahweh killed or ordered to be killed) along with a couple million old men, women, and children tromping through their land? Edited to add: What the heck kind of math did I use there??? That's 11.25 miles per year!!!

[@unclescar5616]

You sir, have done me a great service. Because I was about to playback this video and do the count with my calculator and Google maps ready.

[@oscargordon]

@@unclescar5616 Glad to be of service!

[@oscargordon]

@@unclescar5616 I should add that during the time this story was suppose to be taking place, there were two major trade routes through the area, one along along the coast, the Via Maris, and one inland, the King's Highway. The area of Canaan was controlled by the Egyptians, so Moses and his crew were going from one part of Egypt to another part of Egypt.

[@andystokes8702]

I don't know why people are so cynical. A couple of million people yomped through the wilderness for 40 years and camped at various places and managed to find enough food and water to sustain themselves despite at least one of these places having no water. Why would anybody not just accept it as true, it seems perfectly reasonable and rational to me.

[@unclescar5616]

@@andystokes8702 Over a million people (and their animals) moving in the desert and camping every 11 miles for 40 years. Riiiight!

[@allanlarsen3261]

At least god did not order them to kill everyone and take the virgins as sex slaves, like last time. The "compassionate" god really show through. Truly a god "worthy" of worship. He could have relocated the local inhabitants before the Israelites got there, but no.

[@Lombokstrait1]

Why did they count every single Palm Tree in one the places? Very odd. A Monty Python moment for sure. And then there's the names of the camp sites - Suckoth (sp?) and Hor. Too awesome.

[@visaman]

29 Palms California?

[@Lombokstrait1]

@@visaman 😉maybe they got the idea from the bible to count the trees. Very efficient use of one's time.

[@Dorvin55]

Numbers 33 - Moses check: Alive.

[@hughwozzit4301]

For a long while, I've been thinking that "forty years" of wandering was just the Biblical way of saying "many years". Seems I was wrong, as in v38 it turns out that they arrived at (almost) their destination in the 40th year since leaving Egypt. Not that I believe it, of course.

[@thescoobymike]

Real compelling stuff

[@kellymeadows353]

That’s a hell of a lot of camping trips

[@Malidictus]

When you say "we remember" - who's we? I have ostensibly no memory of these events because pretty much nothing of substance happened. I remember Moses and the stick mostly because you pointed it out and said to remember. I also remember piles of bird carcasses. This chapter is presumably interesting for people trying to map out the Israelites' fictional journey, but I have no memory of any of these locations. Were ancient writers really not aware of the concept of a table? Or a numbered list? Those can't all be modern inventions, they seem fairly common-sense.

[@tim37857]

too many names of places,people , things and time to be fiction.

[@44yvo]

@@tim37857 🙄 I don't know if it is that difficult to name places and people.

[@44yvo]

Easy way to fill out a book.

[@hossmcgregor3853]

@@tim37857 By that logic "The Hunt for Red October" is a true story. After all, there used to be Soviet Union (and Mad Vlad is trying to bring it back), The United States is still around, oceans, submarines, and helicopters exist.

[@tim37857]

@@44yvo but.when written these people.places and things where known.thats why All that was recorded I would think

[@AndHence]

Testimony continues in, The People vs. God and The Israelites.

[@Pandalka]

imagine reviews under a fanfiction like this

[@sidmelucci3675]

No kudos for this fic, that's for sure!

[@Lyoko2516]

Random Pony at the moment of when the Bible explains every single detail of the Israelites' journey: We get it! Move on! But seriously, you're definitely doing good with this. :)

[@TrevorBelmont-VampireHunter]

I missed this live? Welp, better feed this one to Algorithmo. Thanks, Hemant!

[@charliechristianson]

nothing has changed from today till then

[@Sobralzinho78]

hahahaha... You Always make me laugh. I wish that these videos would be made the official standard English audio bibles all over the world. Already includes most of the questions that most of us asks 😅

[@gingersgiraffes219]

Wow, you're good with all those names!

[@lotanerve]

At least they're getting their money's worth out of that camping gear.

[@LasseHuhtala]

They left ligma and camped at deez nuts.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Makes me think of the scene in Clerks II, where they argue about Lord of the Rings. 'This is Fellowship of the Ring...' walking, 'The Two Towers,' walking, walking, 'The Return of the King.' Walking, walking...

[@oldpariah]

Had me on the edge of my seat the whole way, but it ended, so I didn't kick the chair away.

[@dethspud]

Numbers? I was promised there would be no math! What's that? There is no math? Very well then... **click** From camping to genocide? Well, that escalated quickly!

[@hakureikura9052]

Well, we needed the "numbers" to keep up with magical sky daddy's kill count....

[@PassivesAbseits]

If the almighty God of the Bible really exist, he has a really weird sense of humor. He probably had a bet with Shiva and the Spaghetti Monster, claiming that he can put so many pointless chapters into his holy book and the people will still read it...

[@Quvan]

This is one of those Christian morals they talk about. Of course they'll find reasons for it or minimalize gods bloodlust.

[@thomasgregory4871]

Wasn't Canaan still part of Egypt at that time?

[@dennswicker3024]

After all that camping, we now have Camp Fire Girls. It's a miracle.

[@richardmooney383]

The oldest person in modern times was France's Jeanne Calmont, who died at the age of 122. So with Aaron, the Bible writers beat that by one year, despite having a 3,000-year handicap. It's a miracle! and proves they had prophetic powers as anything less than 123 years would not have been miraculous!

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

richard mooney Well, alright, if you mean, Jeanne Calmont’s age proves the Bible true, well done 🙂

[@richardmooney383]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Either I'm missing your irony or you're missing mine 😕

[@tim57243]

He apparently read the whole thing aloud. I am amazed.

[@Nkosi766]

Are you going to get through the Bible before I die of old age? I’m only in my early 50’s

[@Alina-ws6ob]

I wish you could use graphics or maybe a whiteboard.

[@dovrosenschein147]

I love this series. I’m an Orthodox Jew and this is necessary. But I have to say, I die inside anytime a foreigner starts trying to pronounce lists of Hebrew names in the bible. It physically hurts me, as someone who reads this regularly in the original Hebrew.

[@DavidBarkland]

I think you should try to reach out with pronunciation guides, it would be interesting to hear from someone who actually speaks the language and if there's any inferred meanings that are lost in the english translation.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Dov Rosenschein You mean you like the series because of Hemant’s trying to read the different names in the passages?

[@dovrosenschein147]

Daniel, no, I mean I’ve been enjoying the series in general. I do find those lists of names, though, the most difficult to endure listening to.

[@failuretocomunicate5266]

@@dovrosenschein147 I could care less how he pronounces these names. It's just as unimportant as the buybull anyway.

[@arthapeterson5239]

@@failuretocomunicate5266 others would like to know the correct pronunciation.

[@taborturtle]

That chapter, Sukkoth, badly! 😆

[@smochygrice465]

They did a bad bad thing.

[@laurajarrell6187]

Friendly Atheist, Hemant, I love your comments. Ramon Perez never fit. I think it's spelled different, I'm just listening. 👍💙🥰✌

[@AmityvilleFan]

Ye see, we can see here, Aron was a truly evil person, trangressing even God's 120 years hooman lifespan limit!

[@mcawesomeytyo3312]

High places was originally called the Asherah poles.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

The Bible... the book that inspired the phrase, 'Skip a bit, brother.' Or, 'Get on with it!'

[@TazPessle]

I'd love to see a map of all these places and see whther it makes sense at all

[@fordprefect5304]

They don't exist

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Johanne Bremer There are some maps here and there.

[@fordprefect5304]

@@Daniel-cz7kd No, you are wrong again. The places mentioned do not exist, they were made up just like the Exodus story and all the stories that came before it. Exception, Kadesh Barnea which has been excavated by multiple groups who date the oldest evidence there to the 8th century. And Edom, well that is interesting as Moses asked the King Of Edom for passage. Edom was an unoccupied desert controlled by Egypt. All that was there was a few Egyptian copper mines and the Egyptian army on patrol.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@fordprefect5304 So why are there maps put together by historians and scholars to help give a visual perspective and understanding of the different routes mentioned in the Bible

[@fordprefect5304]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Can you spell *A P O L O G I S T S*

[@AegixDrakan]

Wait, so that "they left X and camped at Y" is literal text? 0_o Like... I know this was before writers invented Narrative Pacing and style, but yeesh.

[@AJ_The_One]

Why are we being told about Aaron now! What about Miriam?

[@dj_tika]

Now let's read those first segment of verses 10 times fast and put some words in there like 'I've been to' and 'I've been everywhere man'

[@hughwozzit4301]

Ah yes,, I remember that one. Johnny Cash, 1962, right? Sheesh, 60 years ago!

[@puirYorick]

I reads like some ten year old school kid writing an essay and padding the word count.

[@bladerunner3314]

I could be wrong, maybe I just misshear it - the text says RamEses, you say Ramses, like the Pharaoh.

[@sassyinscrubs5206]

Numbers! Number of letters in these camp names? Number of campa they stopped at? I give you credit for pronouncing all that!!!!

[@danpowell3953]

Wow! I wonder which route from Google maps they used, or did all the guys just refuse to ask anyone for directions?

[@terryriley8963]

What a brain dead job it was for Moses as the great leader of the Israelites who couldn’t think, do or make any decisions on his own as he always had to ask his scary controlling God what to do, it would have certainly Sukkoth.

[@MagereHein]

Imagine the poor scribes who had to copy that text. Hell, this is like those songs that begin with "In January they...". By then you realise you'll have to sit through 11 more stanzas.

[@GatorGirl]

Or when you hear "The Twelve Days of Christmas" starting up

[@Itoldajokeonce]

This book “Sukkoth”…

[@ericjanssen394]

Isn't this really like watching 20 minutes of pointless deleted scenes on a DVD, and realizing why they were cut? 🙄 ("Oh, I hope they include this go-nowhere side subplot on the Director's Cut!")

[@garryferrington811]

There's a place called "Ramon Perez" in the middle east?!

[@blacbraun]

The most tedious fairy tale ever told. What is the distance between Egypt and Canaan? 100 miles? 150 at most? Took the Israelites 40 years to get there!!? What were they, slugs?

[@AJ_The_One]

They could have told us HOW MANY places they camped and left… to fit the numbers theme! But noooo they named each.

[@prophecyempresslerena358]

If I tried writing a book like The Bible and sent it to a publisher, no matter who I go to, I'd be rejected. Eventually, someone would attempt to kindly explain to me that what I just wrote is utter trash. Yet, somehow, against all odds, The Bible made it to the status of a "holy text." I mean, if you have a faith, that's fine, but don't act like The Bible is a literary masterpiece. It isn't and if you're an English teacher, you'd give me a failing grade for writing like this.

[@desi1790]

Good grief!! did they have a word quota

[@jonathanc7642]

What do you mean the book where God is the bad guy? It's right here demanding you to do exactly as he says or he'll punish you.

[@lisaboban]

Spoiler alert:It doesn't get better for the Israelites or anybody else.

[@elainejohnson6955]

We get it. People were camping.

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

Why did they write all this. Like if it's not true then what is the point of it?

[@tomsenior7405]

Will this be in the Final Exam?

[@RobinPillage.]

🥳

[@maxdanielj]

Religious people: "God is pro life" Me: plays Creeping Death (on my phone, I have zero musical talent)

[@janmango4692]

Camping is fun!

[@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος]

Jeebus creepers what a stupid chapter. And then and then and then... Like a child

[@chaosmarklar]

Cancel an entire culture, #allcanninematters

[@aransmeallie5344]

Bruh, I dont think the people that payed money for the book care as much as you do about Numbers 33 Also would be kinda cool to see the journey plotted on a map but aight, words on screen as you read it out works too i guess Edit: Damn, people here really got some strong opinions on this book...

[@fordprefect5304]

*see the journey plotted on a map* Most of the places listed do not exist so that is not going to happen. And since it never happened they will never find non existent places.

[@echang1572]

👍!

[@gregjones2217]

Ok, all you Wehrmacht guys get out there and take back what is theoretically ours. Seig Moses, seig Moses, seig Moses . Seem familiar?

[@kellydalstok8900]

*s!eg

[@Demonoicgamer666]

Why isn’t Moses dead yet?

[@ActiveAdvocate1]

Did I miss this last week? I think I missed this last week. Oh well: Moses is still kicking, so I didn't miss anything huge. Usual format for my sh*t, GO! 1. Why do I have the 'Top Gear" theme song in my head? I don't know if you ever watched that show. My dad binged it about ten years back when he was on the couch all day because he was doing chemotherapy at the time. He's fine now. But "Top Gear" is all about cars and travelling and shit, and I'd rather think about that than do ANOTHER recap. Freaking "Last time, on Dragon Ball Z" style. 2. I cannot BELIEVE you didn't stumble on those place names. Like, I CAN believe it, because you're smart and all, but seriously, I'm reading the "Mahabharata" FOR FUN, and it's easier than this shit. I'm reading it all in English, though, not Sanskrit, but still. THIS is harder than the longest epic in the world. 3. Wait, there's a plot again? 4. Oops, false alarm. XD 5. And yeah, God just sanctioned another genocide, but there are a few really fascinating elements of pre-Jewish history here .Now, you know this story is not literally true. It's meant to be symbolic of the triumph of the proto-Jewish religion over that of the Pagans in the area. The name "El", or "Elohim", another name for, like, GOD, God, the Jewish one, is a Canaanite word, and back in these times, there really WAS a rivalry to see whether El or Baal would win out. Vaal being, like, the BIG BOY on the block in that part of the world. But "El" is where we get the suffix you see on a lot of current Christian names; Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Daniel, they all have to do with THAT Canaanite God, who became, well, God. Don't think for a moment that proto-Judaism didn't subsume elements from the cultures around it. They even got strict monotheism from the Zoroastrians, who were Persian. So a bit later than this. Few hundred years. But on the OTHER hand, since this f*cking thing was taken literally... 6. "Colonizer, colonizer, you colonizer, you colonizer, you colonizer, you colonizer, are you guilty, are you guilty?" That's "Colonizer" by Tanya Tagaq. Go listen to it: mildly terrifying, especially since she's speaking from the Indigenous perspective, and Christians got their jollies by overtly and LEGALLY torturing Indigenous children up until, oh...about 1998.

[@soyevquirsefron990]

Just think of all the poor scribes in the desert having to copy this by hand for hundreds and hundreds of years, add up all those wasted hours…

[@MaxtheFinger]

It won't get better!?! 😫 Oh no!!! 🤣

[@jhill4874]

😶

[@lh1673]

By the way why does this God loves to choose imperfect MAN to lead his people, knowing chaos comes along!? Why can’t He himself do it and just stop ALL the nonsense in first place😅. This book should’ve been one page, just written PEOPLE DO GOOD.

[@tat_tvam_ase]

at this rate he will be dead before he completes the bible

[@SivuStofile]

Numbers 33:15-36 book of camping🤣🤣