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[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by Aquila

I found this interesting....

God had a procedure in the OT for unfaithful women that would force an abortion if she were to have become pregnant by any man other than her husband.

Consider...

Numbers 5:11-31
Protecting Marital Faithfulness

11 And the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.

“Suppose a man’s wife goes astray, and she is unfaithful to her husband 13 and has sex with another man, but neither her husband nor anyone else knows about it. She has defiled herself, even though there was no witness and she was not caught in the act. 14 If her husband becomes jealous and is suspicious of his wife and needs to know whether or not she has defiled herself, 15 the husband must bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring an offering of two quarts of barley flour to be presented on her behalf. Do not mix it with olive oil or frankincense, for it is a jealousy offering—an offering to prove whether or not she is guilty.

16 “The priest will then present her to stand trial before the Lord. 17 He must take some holy water in a clay jar and pour into it dust he has taken from the Tabernacle floor. 18 When the priest has presented the woman before the Lord, he must unbind her hair and place in her hands the offering of proof—the jealousy offering to determine whether her husband’s suspicions are justified. The priest will stand before her, holding the jar of bitter water that brings a curse to those who are guilty. 19 The priest will then put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has had sex with you, and you have not gone astray and defiled yourself while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune from the effects of this bitter water that brings on the curse. 20 But if you have gone astray by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man—’

21 “At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying, ‘May the people know that the Lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell. 22 Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.’ And the woman will be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.’ 23 And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings on the curse. When the water enters her body, it will cause bitter suffering if she is guilty.

25 “The priest will take the jealousy offering from the woman’s hand, lift it up before the Lord, and carry it to the altar. 26 He will take a handful of the flour as a token portion and burn it on the altar, and he will require the woman to drink the water. 27 If she has defiled herself by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings on the curse will cause bitter suffering. Her abdomen will swell and her womb will shrink, and her name will become a curse among her people. 28 But if she has not defiled herself and is pure, then she will be unharmed and will still be able to have children.

29 “This is the ritual law for dealing with suspicion. If a woman goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority, 30 or if a man becomes jealous and is suspicious that his wife has been unfaithful, the husband must present his wife before the Lord, and the priest will apply this entire ritual law to her. 31 The husband will be innocent of any guilt in this matter, but his wife will be held accountable for her sin.”

Consider this... no consideration is given for the potential presence of any life that might be in her womb as a result of her unfaithful union with another man. Instead... the woman's womb is to shrivel and shrink, pregnant or not. Such an action would not only render her barren but it would also induce a miscarriage (abortion) of any seed conceived in sin.

You didn't...

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

You didn't...

Nope, I didn't make that up... that's in the Bible. It's one of the darkest passages in the Law of Moses in my opinion. Can you find any consideration given for a woman who might be pregnant as a result of her unfaithfulness in this passage? I can't. Her womb was to shrivel and she be left barren without any regards for the possiblity that she might be carrying a child from the unfaithful union. No exceptions are given.

This not only demonstrates how serious unfaithfulness was to one's husband in ancient Israel, but it also illustrates God's abhorrance towards children conceived from sinful unions under the Old Covenant. They had no right to live.

Can you see a woman who has been unfaithful and has perhaps missed two or three periods? Imagine her husband becomes suspecious of her behavior (perhaps he's been at war or perhaps traveling with the herds to pasture). So he brings her to the priest and this procedure is performed. In the firelight of the torches in the tabernacle you can see her bowed over, screaming, weeping, and bleeding as her womb convulses and shrivels in her body. Her husband and the priest stand silently watching the judgment of God that is being unleashed upon her. From this day forward she will be barren. And any seed conceived in her as a result of her unfaithful union has now hereby been terminated.

Again, that is very disturbing to me.