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Originally Posted by Crumb's Crunchy Delights
"if anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death."
is this literalising or not  |
this is one of those figurative moments (hence the need for experts)
plus, the entire point such a menacing statement, is not to put a bunch of bad ass kids to death, rather that a bunch of kids be a bit fearful to challenge their parents.. Remember that in Moses' law, there was a specific section discussing what to do to abrogate the punishments.. The legalist (literal) way to interpret that specific scripture is to add an asterisk pointing to the section of the Law which dealt with such abrogations..
Perhaps it would be best translated as, "If anyone cause his father or mother, he must be put to death* (** if said person cannot afford to pay the abrogation fees of ritual sacrifice for atonement as prescribed in section.. subsection.. etc etc)
Remember, that section of the Bible is LAW, and so it is written in legalise..