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Originally Posted by Pliny
I will try to get to this some time this week. I am very busy and I am sure you are as well. Since I am here and have but a couple moments I will ask this:
You have stated that money is used in the text of Genesis 32 times. The term used is a translation.
The term "money" for example is the Hebrew word keseph.
According to BDB
BDB Definition:
1) silver, money
1a) silver
1a1) as metal
1a2) as ornament
1a3) as colour
1b) money, shekels, talents
Also in Genesis it states: ( Gen 43:21 KJV) And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
The "money" was not currency. It was precious metals that was weighed out in bartering. Currency, as is known in the 21st century was not in existence until the end of the OT. The Bible was not written in a vacuum as you well know. It was written in a historical context. The context of money then is not even close to today.
BTW there is no need for you to get testy with me. I have been respectful of you.
(Your man-made description is irrelevant to me)
Abraham did not practice child sacrifice, temple prostitution or sodomy. Therein lies the difference. He did practice tithing. |
What is currency? Non edible object used in exchange for goods or services (as paper, coin, etc).
If I trade you a 1 ounce gold ring for, say, a cow, I just bought the cow with gold. It wouldn't matter if the gold was in the form of a flat disk with Caesar's inscription on it or if it was in the form of a size 3 wedding ring with no diamond from Zale's.
I think your attempting to discount the use of gold, silver, precious metals, etc in the old testament as money is far fetched and stretching things.
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Deuteronomy 14 I believe it says people who could not carry oxen, sheep, produce etc to Jerusalem were to sell the products for MONEY and then upon arrival in Jerusalem they were to use the MONEY to BUY oxen, produce, wine, etc and pay their tithe WITH THAT (by eating it, in fact, along with Levites, strangers, widows, and orphans).
So the apparent claim that money in Genesis or the OT in general is irrelevant is, well, irrelevant. Things were used as currency, that is, non edible items were used as a medium of exchange for edible foodstuffs.
Gold has been money since the beginning of recorded history. Everyone outside the CNN crowd knows that.
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