And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 8:17
Trivia: What was the first plague that the Pharaoh's magicians couldn't do?
And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 8:17
Trivia: What was the first plague that the Pharaoh's magicians couldn't do?
"If thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn." 4:23
God threatens to kill the Pharaoh's firstborn son.
"And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses." 6:20
Moses was the product of an incestuous marriage.
"I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast." 12:12
God explains to Moses that he intends to kill every Egyptian fristborn man and beast.
"When your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses." 12:26-26
When your children ask you, "Why do we celebrate the passover," tell them, "Because God passed over our houses when he was killing Egyptians and didn't kill any of us."
"At midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt ... and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." 12:29-30
After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh's heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished "there was not a house where there was not one dead." Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too.
"Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him." 18:6-27
Moses kisses his father-in-law (Jethro, Hobab, or Reul) and treats him as though he were a king, but he completely ignores his wife (Zipporah, who in 4:24-26 saved him from God's attempt to murder him) and two sons.
"If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself." 21:4
God says it's okay for slave owners to split up slave families.
"His master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever." 21:6
If a Hebrew slave refuses to leave his family after his seven years are up, his master will drill a hole through his ear and he will serve his master as a slave forever.
"If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant ... If she please not her master...." 21:7-8
How to sell your daughter -- and what to do if she fails to please her new master.
"If he take him another wife...." 21:10
God's instructions for taking a second wife.
"He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death." 21:15
A child who strikes his parents must be executed.
"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." 21:17
A child that curses his parents must be executed.
"If a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife." 22:16
If you "entice" an "unmarried maid" to "lie" with you, then you must marry her, unless the father refuses to give her to you, in which case you must pay him the going price for virgins.
"My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." 22:24
If you make God angry enough, he will kill you and your family with his own sword.
"The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt give unto me." 22:29
As a burnt offering?
"Who is on the LORD's side?" 32:27-28
God orders the sons of Levi (Moses, Aaron, and the other members of their tribe that were "on the Lord's side") to kill their familiy and friends. "And there fell of the people that day about 3000 men."
"The LORD God ... visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." 34:6-7
God says that he visits "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation."
"All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem." 34:20
If a father doesn't redeem his firstborn son, must he break his neck as he must do with a donkey?
