The Skeptics Annotated Bible (190 page)

10
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

(22.10)
“Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.”

11
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

(22.11)
“Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.”

12
Thou shalt make
thee
fringes upon
the four quarters of
thy vesture
, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

(22.13-21) If a man marries and then decides that he hates his wife, he can claim she wasn’t a virgin when they were married. If her father can’t produce the “tokens of her virginity” (bloody sheets), then the woman is to be stoned to death at her father’s doorstep.
23 Does God approve of capital punishment?

13
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

(22.13)
“If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her.”

14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her,
and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

(22.14)
“And say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:”

15
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

(22.15)
“Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:”

16
And the damsel’s father shall say
unto the elders,
I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

(22.16)
“And the damsel’s father shall say … I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid;
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

(22.17) “
And yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.”

18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20
But if
this thing be true, and
the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

(22.20)
“But if … the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel,”

21
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die
: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

(22.21)
“Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.”

22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die
, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

(22.22)
“If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die.”