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"This is truly despicable behavior from God and Moses. Under God’s direction, Moses’ army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some alive, he angrily says: “Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” So they went back and did as Moses – the Lord’s prophet – commanded, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way, they got 32,000 virgins." | "This is truly despicable behavior from God and Moses. Under God’s direction, Moses’ army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some alive, he angrily says: “Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” So they went back and did as Moses – the Lord’s prophet – commanded, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way, they got 32,000 virgins." | ||
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| − | *The story of the Moses and the Midianites sounds horrific. However, there appears to be a reason why Moses commanded that they be killed. There are indications that Moses viewed the Midianites as being responsible for a plague which was caused by having sexual relations with those individuals ("the matter of Peor"). Note how Moses issued extensive | + | *The story of the Moses and the Midianites sounds horrific. However, there appears to be a reason why Moses commanded that they be killed. There are indications that Moses viewed the Midianites as being responsible for a plague which was caused by having sexual relations with those individuals ("the matter of Peor"). Note how Moses issued extensive instructions for the purification of anyone or ''anything'' coming into contact with these people. The following verses from Numbers 31: |
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15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? | 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Scriptures Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: D&C 132 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 31
- Response to section: 1 Nephi 4 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Exodus 12:12 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Exodus 35:1-2 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 21:5-9
- Response to section: Judges 19:22-29 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well" [Work in Progress]