Deuteronomy – General
Deuteronomy 2:9, 19 - God gave the Moabites and the Ammonites special protection though they were the descendents of Lot's drunken, incestuous affair with his daughters (Gen.19:30-38).
Deuteronomy 2:10-11, 20 - More talk about a "land of giants." They must have been much more common back then.
Deuteronomy 2:21-22 - "The Lord destroyed them before them", the general treatment of the people who were supposedly displaced by the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 2:30 - God hardened the heart of the king of Heshbon and so that he could have him and all of his people killed!!!
Deuteronomy 2:33-36 - At God's instructions, the Israelites "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain."
Deuteronomy 3:3, 6 - Again the Israelites kill everyone: "men, women, and children, of every city."
Deuteronomy 4:16-18, 23 - In these verses, God condemns the making of graven images. But in Ex.25:18 and Num.21:8 he commands others to make graven images.
Deuteronomy 4:24 - God is "a consuming fire, even a jealous God." This kind of human emotions should not form part of a “God”. I am sure Adam and Eve did not have these kinds of emotions before the “fall”. Maybe the “fall” also affected God?
Deuteronomy 5:4 - Moses tells the Israelites that God spoke to them "face to face." But this contradicts many Bible verses that say that no one has ever seen God.
Deuteronomy 5:9 - God, by his own admission, is a jealous God who unjustly punishes great-great grandchildren for the failings of their long-dead ancestors, or so it says in this verse. But Dt.24:16 and Ezek.18:20 say that God does not punish children for the sins of their fathers. It seems that God is not only jealous but confused as well.
Deuteronomy 15:17 - "Thou shall not kill." A strange commandment from a God, who kills so indiscriminately and commands others to do likewise.
Deuteronomy 5:18 - Here adultery is forbidden. But God orders Hosea to commit adultery in Hos.1:2 and 3:1-3.
Deuteronomy 6:14-15 - If you worship the wrong god, God will get jealous and kill you. How could God be jealous of other gods if they don't exist?
Deuteronomy 6:16 - "Ye shall not tempt the Lord thy God." But James 1:13 says that God cannot be tempted.
Deuteronomy 7:1 - God promises to cast out seven nations including the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Jebusites. But he was unable to fulfil his promise. These nations were "greater and mightier" than the Israelites, who according to Ex.12:37 and Num.1:45-46 already had numbered several million. So the region, according to the bible, must have had a population of more than twenty million!
Deuteronomy 7:2 - God instructs the Israelites to kill, without mercy, all the inhabitants of the land that they conquer. But in Dt.10:19 he changes his mind, saying "Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 7:3 - God forbids marriages with those of other tribes. He makes an exception for Moses, though (Num.12:1, 9-10).
Deuteronomy 7:4 - If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly."
Deuteronomy 7:6 - God prefers the Israelites to everyone else. It's not that he's prejudiced, he just like them better.
Deuteronomy 7:10 - God will kill those who hate him.
Deuteronomy 7:14-15 - God's favourite people will never be infertile (neither will their cows!) and will never get sick. (God will send infertility and diseases on the other guys.)
Deuteronomy 7:24 - God says that the Israelites will destroy all of the peoples they encounter. But according to Joshua (15:63, 16:10, 17:12-13) and Judges (1:21, 27-36, 3:1-5) there were some people they just couldn't kill.
Deuteronomy 8:2 - God had to test the Israelites to find out what was in their minds and hearts. But according to Acts 1:24 he should have already known.
Deuteronomy 10:6 - Here it says that Aaron died at Mosera, but in Numbers (Num.20:27-28), he is said to have died on Mount Hor.
Deuteronomy 10:19 - After God instructs the Israelites to mercilessly slaughter all the strangers that they encounter (Dt.7:2, 16), he tells them to "love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 12:27 - "The blood of sacrifices shall be poured out... and thou shall eat the flesh." Isn't this the sort of thing that Satanists are accused of doing?
Deuteronomy 12:30 - Kill those of other faiths. Reject their beliefs and do not learn about them.
Deuteronomy 13:3 - God tries people to find out what is in their hearts, contrary to those Bible verses that claim that God knows the hearts of humans.
Deuteronomy 13:6-10 - If your brother, son, daughter, wife, or friend tries to get you to worship another god, "thou shall surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death." If Bible-believers followed this one, they would have to kill many of their own family and friends.
Deuteronomy 13:12-16 - If you hear of a city where another god is worshiped, then destroy everyone in the city (even the cattle) and burn it down.
Deuteronomy 14:7 - This verse mistakenly says that the hare chews its cud.
Deuteronomy 14:19 - "Every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you." But Lev.11:21 says that some flying creeping things (the ones with four legs!) are OK.
Deuteronomy 15:12-17 - Instructions for buying your brother.
Deuteronomy 16:16 - Three times a year all of the males are to appear before God. But the females he never wants to see.
Deuteronomy 17:2-7 - Kill everyone who has religious beliefs that are different from your own.
Deuteronomy 17:12-13 - Anyone who will not listen to a priest or a judge must be executed.
Deuteronomy 20:4 - God travels with people and fights in their wars.
Deuteronomy 20:10-11 - God tells the Israelites to enslave the people that they conquer in war.
Deuteronomy 20:13-15 - In the cities that god "delivers into thine hands" you must kill all the males (including old men, boys, and babies) with "the edge of the sword .... But the women ... shall thou take unto yourself."
Deuteronomy 21:11-14 - If you see a pretty woman among the captives and would like her for a wife, then just bring her home and "go in unto her." Later, if you decide you don't like her, you can "let her go."
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 - If you have a "stubborn and rebellious son," then you and the other men in your neighbourhood "shall stone him with stones that he dies."
Deuteronomy 22:5 - Women are not to wear men's clothing; it's an "abomination unto the Lord."
Deuteronomy 22:10-12 - "Thou shall not plough with an ox and an ass together" or wear wool and linen together in the same garment. But "thou shall make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture."
Deuteronomy 22:13-21 - If a man marries, then decides that he hates his wife, he can claim she wasn't a virgin when they were married. If her father can't produce the "tokens of her virginity" (bloody sheets), then the woman is to be stoned to death at her father's doorstep.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 - If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city and doesn't cry out loud enough, then "the men of the city shall stone her to death."
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 - If a man rapes an un-betrothed virgin, he must pay her father 50 shekels of silver and then marry her.
Deuteronomy 22:30 - "A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt."
Deuteronomy 23:1 - You can't go to church if your testicles are damaged or your penis has been cut off.
Deuteronomy 23:3, 6 - No Moabite will ever be allowed into the congregation of the Lord. But Ruth was a Moabite and she not only entered "the congregation of the Lord," but was also an ancestor of David and Jesus. (Ru.1:4, 4:12, 17)
Deuteronomy 23:12-14 - God gives us instructions for defecating. He says to carefully cover up all faeces "for the Lord walketh in the midst of thy camp." You wouldn't want his divine foot to step in your shit, would you?
Deuteronomy 24:7 - Those who capture slaves and sell them must be executed. So it’s ok to own slave but not sell them??
Deuteronomy 24:16 - This verse says that sons are not punished for the sins of their fathers. But elsewhere in the Bible it is clearly stated that sons are punished for their fathers' sins.
Deuteronomy 25:5 - If a man dies before his wife has a child, then the widow must marry her husband's brother, whether she likes him or not, and whether she wants to or not.
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 - If a man dies without having a child, his brother shall "go in unto" his dead brother's wife. If he refuses, the dead man's wife is to loosen his shoe and spit in his face.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 - If two men fight and the wife of one grabs the "secrets" of the other, "then thou shall cut off her hand" and "thy eye shall not pity her."
Deuteronomy 25:19 - God commands the Israelites to "blot out the rembrance of Amalek from under heaven." A few hundred years later, again, God orders Saul to kill of the Amalekites "both man and woman, infant and suckling." (1 Sam.15:2-3)
Deuteronomy 27:26 - "Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law." But Gal.3:10 says that all those that do follow the law are cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68 - If you don't obey all of the laws that are given in the Old Testament, God shower you with the curses that are given in the next 52 verses (28:16-68).
Deuteronomy 28:18 - "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body." But other verses claim that children are not to be punished for the sins of their parents.
Deuteronomy 28:58-67 - If you don't do as God says he'll send plagues to torment and destroy you.
Deuteronomy 30:14 - Misquoted in Rom.10:8.
Deuteronomy 32:21-26 - When God gets mad, watch out! He'll starve you to death, burn you with fire, and send vicious beasts to devour you. He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs." Not even the helpless and innocent are spared by this psychotic God.
Deuteronomy 33:8 - The Urim and Thummim were like the two sides of a magic coin that could be flipped to give a yes or no answer to any question. They were also what Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Mormon.
Deuteronomy 33:17 - Joseph's "horns are like the horns of a unicorn." That's good to know.
Deuteronomy 34:5 - Moses, the alleged author of the Pentateuch, describes his own death and burial.
Deuteronomy 34:10 - Moses know God "face to face." But this is contradicted by many Bible verses that say that now one has ever seen God.
