Let's just say I'm not going to stay up nights wondering about it.
Question from Readers,WT MARCH 15, 2004 page 28
by badboy 23 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Elsewhere
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blondie
What can you say about a situation where Moses married a non-Israelite woman and didn't have the sense to circumcise his boys when they were young as was the case for all Israelite men since the God promised Abraham the seed would come through his family line. So shame on Moses. It took a non-Israelite woman to show him what to do.
Blondie
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With apologies for being (very slightly) off topic
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simplesally
Badboy........sorry to say, it is very difficult to figure out yours posts. Eventually, I get them, but with all those numbers its like a puzzle. So, a lot of times, I just skip the threads you start. I came onto this one because I didn't notice you started it........and the topic was so clear!!
I realize its text messaging but this is a forum and we don't have to speed type or speed read......and most of us are not 20-ish or under.....so the text messaging language doesn't come easy for some.
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ignored_one
Elsewhere,
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Ignored One.
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BluesBrother
*** Rbi8 Exodus 4:24-26 ***
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Now it came about on the road at the lodging place that Jehovah got to meet him and kept looking for a way to put him to death. 25 Finally Zip·po´rah took a flint and cut off her son?s foreskin and caused it to touch his feet and said: "It is because you are a bridegroom of blood to me." 26 Consequently he let go of him. At that time she said: "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.Question Box asked what it meant and whose life was in danger?
Answer? (summarized)
Moses was on his way to Egypt with family. He had neglected to circumcise his son . The boy's life was thretened by the angel. The angels feet were touched by the foreskin . She said a "Bride groom of blood" to the angel recognizing her submission to God whom the angel represented.
The article also says "This passage is obscure and it is not possible to be certain about it's meaning"
Go figure
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peacefulpete
Exodus 4:24-26 can be best understood in it's religious context. Circucision was an Egyptian religious practice (adopted by a number of tribes under their influence)symbolic of a covenant relationaship with Ra. The act is symbolic of castration, thereby suggestive that all the offspring of the man so mutilated are figuratively sons of the deity and not the man himself. Secondly the blood shed in this mutilization was viewed as sacrificial and binding the covenant. That is why she cast the bloody foreskin at YHWH's feet, it was a sacrificial offering. Also her comment about his becoming a bridegroom of blood is likely reflecting this covenant to bear offspring claimed as YHWH's. J has painted YHWH as unpredictable even neurotic in this passage, which is consistant with early conceptions of deity in Canaan.
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xjw_b12
The article also says "This passage is obscure and it is not possible to be certain about it's meaning"
Well that would apply to everything the WTS prints as well.
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Panda
The article also says "This passage is obscure and it is not possible to be certain about it's meaning"
Well that would apply to everything the WTS prints as well.
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