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Richard D

(10,018 posts) Mon May 5, 2025, 03:06 PM May 2025

The Jews never stole the land

You can't prove him wrong.

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The Jews never stole the land (Original Post) Richard D May 2025 OP

Exodus 23:28-30 This sounds like stealing to me. spike jones May 2025 #1

God stole the land? Mosby May 2025 #2

Interesting... Richard D May 2025 #4

I checked a couple chumashim Mosby May 2025 #6

Yeah, but none of that happened DavidDvorkin May 2025 #3

I think we have reached the point where there is no difference. Thanks for the comment. twodogsbarking May 2025 #5

spike jones

(2,026 posts)

1. Exodus 23:28-30 This sounds like stealing to me.

Reply to Richard D (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2025, 09:00 PM

May 2025

Exodus 23:28-30
New International Version
28 I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. 29 But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

Mosby

(19,491 posts)

2. God stole the land?

Reply to spike jones (Reply #1)

Mon May 5, 2025, 10:48 PM

May 2025

Really?

Richard D

(10,018 posts)

4. Interesting...

Reply to Mosby (Reply #2)

Tue May 6, 2025, 10:02 AM

May 2025

Some scholars think that the hornets were the Egyptians as the Pharoah was represented as a hornet in hieroglyphics.

Mosby

(19,491 posts)

6. I checked a couple chumashim

Reply to Richard D (Reply #4)

Tue May 6, 2025, 02:19 PM

May 2025

For this section of Mishpatim. The Hertz chumash referenced stinging insects, but my chumash Etz Chayim says "I will send a plague ahead of you...." so maybe the hornet reference isn't very important. There is a lot of halacha in this parsha.

DavidDvorkin

(20,684 posts)

3. Yeah, but none of that happened

Reply to spike jones (Reply #1)

Tue May 6, 2025, 12:28 AM

May 2025

It's pure mythology and has no relevance to history.

twodogsbarking

(19,353 posts)

5. I think we have reached the point where there is no difference. Thanks for the comment.

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Reply #3)

Tue May 6, 2025, 10:16 AM

May 2025

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