RE: Biblical Abortion

[qubitcritical]

Its not a pretty passage of the law, which I regard as basically a national legal code/ curse attainable only by God anyway, but Numbers 5:11-28 exists also. I mean.. I think its pretty clear what is going on there.

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[zyx066]

Thank You!! How could I have forgotten that one? That's the one about the "bitter water" test for unfaithful women...

19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

Pretty clear indeed... Thanks for adding that one!