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Numbers - Chapter 5 basically lays out how to conduct a witch hunt - incredibly patriarchal society. In chapter 20, god gets mad that Moses performs a miracle slightly different from the way that he commanded - so slight that I had to reread it many times in order to understand - so that generation doesn’t get to go to the promised land - again the pettiness. Chapter 22’s got a talking donkey. Lots of genocide.

Leviticus - Overall very boring. Enjoyed the repeated phrase “a pleasing odor to the Lord.” Enjoyed the part where god was like keep all your freaks away from me, which included people with disabilities and abnormalities and then also those with crushed testicles. Didn’t love the homophobic bits; #godisoverparty.

Exodus 22:2 - “If a thief is found breaking in, and is beaten to death, no bloodguilt is incurred; but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred.”

I’m convinced already that barely anybody reads this book critically. God be kind of petty.

Genesis - Really like the part where a guy is wicked so god kills him, then his dad has one of his other sons sleep with the wicked guy’s wife to give her a child, but that son’s like nah so he cums on the ground instead. Then the dad is like well I’ll give you my other son when he grows up, but the dad doesn’t follow through. So the wife dresses up like a prostitute and has sex with the dad to get pregnant.