The issue I take with the use of these scriptures is that Aquila and Frog are going back into the OT to justify today's abortion, inferring that if God used it back in those days, abortion should be ok today in certain cases. These scriptures are not implications that God endorses or practiced abortion because He instituted this law of jealousy for
adultery.
English definition of Euphemism: mild or indirect word or expression substituted for o
ne considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing: The opposite of dysphemism.
Why would the translators use the word "thigh" in euphemism in the book of Numbers, when they expressly translated the word "womb" for a female reproductive organ in all the rest of the OT verses such as
Genesis 25:23, 25:24, 29:31, 30:2, 30:22, 38:27, 49:25. Exodus, Numbers, Deuterotomy, Judges, Ruth, I Samuel, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea and in many books of the NT. The term "womb" is mentioned in both the OT and NT over 70 times. So why would the word "womb" be offensive or delicate just in the Numbers scriptures? Why would they translate it by euphemism just in these verses and not in the other verses?
If this is true for Numbers, then the same should be true for
Genesis 24:2, 24:9, 32:25, 32:31, 32:32, 47:29 and all the other scriptures I posted earlier containing the word "thigh", which comes from Strong's number 3409. One can only conclude that the translators translated "thigh" accurately in the verse in Numbers, otherwise, they would have placed the word "womb" to give a clear and concise description of the law of jealousy.
These scriptures are taken out of the context from which they are written and I am appalled that some people would implicate that God would cause a priest to be a part of such nonsense. We have our example of what God did in cases of adultery by what happened with King David and Bathsheba's baby. God expressly told King David that the baby would not live after birth, not from a woman's abdomen swelling and her womb shriveling up.
He is God and He is just, even to babies conceived in sin.
Sick stuff.
Now lets take the issue Frog is saying that babies in the womb are not human. He has rejected
Jeremiah 1:5, calling the worse prooftexting example.
I however, maintain that Jeremiah is a worthy scripture to describe a child in the womb being human.
Then there is others...as below.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and
Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the
children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
24 ¶And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
(
Genesis 25:21-24)
For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head:
for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
(
Judges 13:5)
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
(
Job 31:15)
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
(
Psalms 22:10)
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
(Ecclesiastes 11:5)
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
(
Isaiah 44:2)
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
(Isaiah 49:1)
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
(
Jeremiah 1:5)
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
(
Luke 1:31)
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
(
Luke 1:41)
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
(
Luke 1:42)
All these scriptures are examples of human babies live in the womb.
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