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Bible verses depict not only abortion, but ripping fetuses from the womb

Updated: May 29, 2020




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God had no problem with abortion, let alone infanticide. Even disregarding the Passover in which the firstborn of Egypt were all killed (including babies), as well as the great flood (in which all men, women and children were killed except for the incestuous eight), Christians were regularly instructed to remove fetuses by force--whether a priest administering an herbal abortion for a jealous husband or invading Christians meting out punishment in the name of god.

 

"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." Hosea 13:16, King James Version

 

The following passage doubles down on misogyny. Not only does it say to kill all pregnant women (women who have obviously slept with a man, because how else would they know), but it also says to take young virgins for themselves. This was a common practice of invaders, to ensure that the next generation was their own:


"Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." Numbers 31:17-18, New International Version

 

This is the full story of the "test for an unfaithful spouse" from a more accurate biblical translation, as other translations have been altered to say her "thigh" will shrink...and yet, they still say she will be able to conceive afterwards. This mistranslated phrasing was purposeful, to keep people from realizing what was originally stated in this passage. The drink induced a miscarriage; this is why the later passage says she will still be able to conceive. The poison ("curse") was to abort the fetus. It is describing any number of herbs that will cause a miscarriage/spontaneous abortion. They are bitter. See for yourself:

The LORD spoke to Moses:

12 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: A man may suspect that his wife has had an affair and has broken faith with him,

13 that a man has had intercourse with her unknown to her husband and that she has defiled herself in secret—even though there are no witnesses and she isn't caught.

14 If jealousy overcomes him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if jealousy overcomes him and he is jealous of his wife who hasn't defiled herself,

15 then the man will bring his wife to the priest. He will bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He will not pour oil on it, nor offer frankincense with it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a grain offering for recognition in order to recognize guilt.

16 The priest will bring her close and make her stand before the LORD

17 The priest will take holy water in a clay jar, and taking dust from the floor of the dwelling, the priest will place it in the water.

18 The priest will make the woman stand before the LORD, let the hair of the woman hang down, and place the grain offering for recognition, that is, the grain offering for jealousy, in her hands. The water of bitterness that brings the curse will be in the hands of the priest.

19 Then the priest will make her swear a solemn pledge, saying to the woman, "If no man has slept with you and if you haven't had an affair, becoming defiled while married to your husband, then be immune from the water of bitterness that brings these curses.

20 But if you have had an affair while married to your husband, if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you"—

21 then the priest must make the woman utter the curse and say to the woman, "May the LORD make you a curse and a harmful pledge among your people, when the LORD induces a miscarriage and your womb discharges.

22 And may the water that brings these curses enter your stomach and make your womb discharge and make you miscarry." And the woman will say, "I agree, I agree."

23 The priest will write these curses in the scroll and wipe them off into the water of bitterness.

24 Then he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse. And the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness.

25 The priest will take the grain offering for jealousy from the woman's hands, elevate the grain offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

26 The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as a token part of it and turn it into smoke on the altar. And afterward he will make the woman drink the water.

27 When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness, and her womb will discharge and she will miscarry. The woman will be a curse among her people.

28 But if the woman hasn't defiled herself and she is pure, then she will be immune and able to conceive.

29 These are the instructions about jealousy, when a wife has an affair while married to her husband and defiles herself,

30 or when jealousy overcomes a man and he is jealous of his wife. The priest will make the woman stand before the LORD and will follow all these instructions concerning her.

31 The man will be free from guilt, but the woman will bear her guilt.


Numbers 5:11-31, The Common English Bible

 

More passages of the Christian concept of invasion, specifically referencing Christians forcibly removing fetuses and killing infants:


"Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up." 2 Kings 15:16, King James Version


"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." 1 Samuel 15:3, King James Version


"Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." Psalms 137:8-9, New International Version

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