"I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy."
Author: Deuteronomy 32 Verses #: 42
In this chapter Moses is supposedly speaking for god. The reader of the chapter is supposed to believe that all the words are the words of Yahweh. God is explaining how he is going to kill people who are not hebrew and follow the God of Moses and the Israelites. It becomes abundantly obvious the the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" does not apply outside the tribe. The old testament is filled with page after page of violent warfare against other tribes and "foreign" people.
Under levitical law killing is encouraged for any acts outside levitical law. The killing children for dishonoring parents is one example. Everyone in the tribe of Moses was to be deathly afraid of breaking the very strict rules that governed all of life. Violent death was the penalty exacted by the priests and the patriarch for behavior that did not conform to their levitical law. Moses created a theocracy that was completely totalitarian in scope.
""Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death."
Author: Exodus 21 Verses #: 17
