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Noahide Laws Proven In The Hebrew Bible (The Testament)
Myths & Facts About The Noahide Laws: Clarification of lies
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Biblical / Documented Proof of Noahide Laws
Did our all knowing, Prophetic
G-D make a mistake... when he declared the Noahide laws to last forever?
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Genesis 9:8
And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him,
saying: 9 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with
you, and with your seed after you; 10 and with every living
creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast
of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every
beast of the earth. 11
And I will establish My covenant
with you; AND neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the
waters of the flood; AND neither shall there any more be a flood to
destroy the earth.' 12 And God said: 'This is the token of
the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living
creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations: 13 I
have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between Me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to
pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in
the cloud, 15 that I will remember My covenant, which is
between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the
waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember
the
EVERLASTING
covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the earth.'
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And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I
have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'
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THEREFORE, it is impossible for any other type of post-Noahide
religion to replace it - without calling the G-D of Israel a liar
or stupid (a thousand separations)...
Here are your
requirements:
1-
IDOLATRY
2- BLASPHEMY
3- MURDER
4- SEXUAL IMMORALITY
5- STEALING
6- JUSTICE: COURTS
7- MEAT: EATING LIVE CREATURES
From
the "Path of Avraham Site"
A
moderately careful reader notices that
the '10 Commandments' were only directed to the
nation of Israel. In addition, there are other laws
contained in the Torah [Law of Moses] which specify things which are
prohibited to Israel but permitted to other humans. If so, how do we
know what is obligatory upon the non-Jewish nations? The very
existence of this ("eternal" covenant) is undeniably spelled out in
Genesis. But how do we know the details of each of of the seven laws?
The people of
Israel inherited from their righteous ancestors certain oral teachings
which preceded the covenant made with Israel at Mt. Sinai. Some of
these teachings are
specifically written or alluded to in the written text of the
Torah [Law of Moses.] Among the oral teachings which Israel received
from its righteous ancestors are
the
7 Laws which are incumbent upon all mankind. All throughout
history, while the majority of humankind would be turning away from
surrendering to their Creator, there remained a remnant of people,
sometimes just individuals, who preserved the chain of instruction
passed down from generation to generation, going all the way back to
the first man (Adam) who received them from the Almighty. The
instruction of the 7 categorical laws, often called the 7 laws of Noah
because the 7th was given via Noah, were kept by very few until
Abraham's lifetime.
If a person is to be put to death for shedding another human's
blood specifically because man is made in
G-d's image, then how much more so
is it prohibited and punishable to murder, so to speak, or
desecrate G-d's "image" itself by committing idolatry? After all,
man's having been made in G-d's image is the only reason plainly
written in this verse as to why murder is so severe that it is
punishable by death. When a person commits idolatry he
misrepresents G-d's existence to the world, as well as His will
concerning how we are to worship Him. Idolatry destroys people's
realization of G-d, which is made known to them via His mighty
works, by others teachings about Him, and by our submission to His
commandments concerning how we are to worship Him. It also reveals
things about G-d to the world when we worship Him properly,
according to His commandments. If we were to worship Him by
praying through pictures, statues, or any other kind of
intermediary, this gives false conceptions to those who see us
doing so, besides being directly contrary to His command. If a
person who spreads lies or false rumors about a well known
individual is guilty of destroying that individual's public
'image,' how much more so would the case be with a person who
spreads lies, misrepresentations, and misconceptions about the
Creator, thus destroying His 'image' as perceived by the world?
Click
IMAGE to see what "image
of G-d" means. You will find that it concerns human
perception.
Jonah 3:5 “The people of
Nineveh believed in G-d;...
That the people of Nineveh’s repentance
included believing in G-d may imply that part of their previous
wickedness was that they were believing in other “gods/powers.”
DO NOT COMMIT BLASPHEMY
Leviticus 24:16 "And
he that blasphemeth the name of the L-RD, he shall surely be put to
death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him; as well
the stranger, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name,
shall be put to death."
Leviticus 24:16
also punishes the stranger for breaking this prohibition. Other
commandments where the stranger is mentioned, such as the
Sabbath, prohibit the Jewish people from making them work, just as
we are prohibited to make animals work. This is done without
specifying a punishment for the stranger or the animals if they
voluntarily choose to work.
This command is
alluded to in the commandment of Genesis
2:16 by the inclusion of the Unique Name of the
Almighty Y-H-W-H, which signifies the Creator's transcendence over
time/space, and his independent self-existence, as well as other
deeper realities of the truth of His Being.
MURDER
Genesis 9:5-6
"And
surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every
beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of
every man's brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of G-d
made He man."
That this was
commanded previously is shown by the fact that the world was already
punished for its wickedness by the Flood. Would the world be
punished for things they were never commanded against doing?
In
Genesis 4:11-13
we see that Cain was cursed and punished for
killing Abel. Was he punished and cursed for something he was never
prohibited from doing? This is the same question as the question
about the Flood.
SEXUAL IMMORALITY
Genesis 2:24
"Therefore shall a
man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,
and they shall be one flesh."
Genesis 20:3
"..'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast
taken; for she is a man's wife."
Genesis 20:13
"My
sister, daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, so
she has become to me for a wife."
These verses
indicate some of the prohibitions on sexual intercourse as it
applies to the non-Israelite nations in the following manner:
The following is the codification of the
Sanhedrin's clarification of this prohibition as put
forth by RAMBAM in the
Mishneh Torah,
in Sefer Shoftim, Hilkhoth Melakhim u'Milhamotheihem
9:7-11
[5-8]
9:7 [5] There are
six types of sexual acts forbidden to a ben Noah:
Intercourse with his own mother,
with his father's wife (who is not one's mother, ei:
step mom),
with another man's wife,
with his sister from his mother's side (maternal
sister),
and with
an animal
-- as
it is written:
"Therefore, a man should
leave his father..." (Genesis
2:24)
This verse indicates that intercourse with his father's
wife is prohibited,
even when she
is not his mother; (An individual who is
"leaving his father" is also leaving any wife his father may
have, since his father and any wife his father may have are
considered "one flesh.")
Intercourse with "...his mother" is prohibited, as
is explicit in the verse;
The phrase "and he will cleave with his wife"
in the above verse entails that intercourse with his
fellow's wife is not permitted. ("with
HIS wife," and not with someone else's.)
In the above verse, the phrase "and he will
cleave with his wife" excludes intercourse with a male;
(A male is not a wife; "wife" and "woman" are the same word in
Hebrew.)
The phrase "and they become one flesh" excludes cattle,
livestock, fowl, etc.. from among types of intercourse entailed
as permitted by the verse, because a one can not produce "one
flesh" with such.
[Becoming "one flesh" includes the ability to have children.
Children are a physical combination of the man and woman. - This
excludes intercourse with non-females and non-humans.]
And it is stated, "My sister, daughter of my father, but not the
daughter of my mother, so she has become to me for a wife." (Genesis
20:13) [This
shows that one's maternal half-sister is forbidden by the Laws
of Noah, but not one's paternal half-sister.]
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STEALING
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Genesis 2:16-17
"And
the L-RD G-d commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in
the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'"
Genesis
9:3
"Every
moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the
green herb have I given you all."
In the command of
Genesis
2:16 itself, like we
also find in
Genesis
9:3-4, one sees see
that permission has to be given to Adam to eat of the trees
of the garden. Permission to eat of the trees was not to be
assumed by Adam. Rather, Adam had to be told that he can
partake of the fruits, with an exception to one tree, of
course. This implies that if permission had not been
granted to Adam to partake of the trees, it would have been
forbidden to them as the tree of knowledge was forbidden to
him. Taking what was not permitted to him was the first
sin. This is stealing, being that all these things belong
to the Creator, Exodus 9:29, 19:5; Deuteronomy 10:14; Job
41:11; Psalm 24:1, 50:10-12. Taking from what is His domain
against permission is called robbing, Malachi 3:8-10. In
Genesis 2:6 Adam is
only
given permission to eat of the trees. He is not here given
permission to partake of the animals for food. Meat is not
permitted to mankind until
Genesis
9:3-4.
When we take into account that so many
generations after Adam, Noah still had to be given clear
permission to partake of meat for food, this shows that it
was assumed that mankind was to continue to live by the
command given to Adam until further told by the Almighty.
Genesis 34:2-8
"And
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land,
saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humiliated
her.... Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his
daughter;... 'Get me this damsel to wife.' ....he had
wrought a vile deed in Israel in lying with Jacob's
daughter; a thing which ought not to be done..."
Shechem "took" Dinah and "lay with
her" (had relations) in a "humiliating" way. He "defiled"
her, and afterward wanted her for a wife, meaning that he
was not married to her. As seems clear, and as our Sages
teach, Shechem kidnapped and raped her. This is a horrible
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EATING LIVE CREATURES:
FORBIDDEN
Genesis 9:2-4
"And the fear of
you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and
upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground
teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they
delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you;
as the green herb have I given you all. Only flesh with its
life-blood [or
blood-movement],
this you may not eat."
Meat from an
animal that is alive with blood-movement
[ Hebrew: nafsho
damo ] - do
not eat; Meat from an animal whose blood is alive with movement
[ Hebrew:
nafsho damo] -
do not eat. The verse prohibits EATING MEAT of this type. If it
were speaking of drinking blood then meat is needlessly mentioned
and it would have said not to drink instead of 'do not eat.'
LAW FOR NON-JEWS:
Thus, ALL MAMMALS are forbidden to be eaten (while ALIVE) by
non-Jews. It is thus forbidden to tear fresh from live mammals.
Whereas live insects,
live fish and live birds ARE permitted to be
eaten alive.
LAW FOR JEWS: It is
forbidden to eat any live creature (or piece of a creature) while
alive (mammals or insects).
All plant life is
permitted as indicated in the following verses:
Genesis 9:3
"Every
moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; just as the
green herb, have I given you all."
Genesis 1:29-30
"And G-d
said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;...every
green herb for food."
Jonah 3:5-10 “The people
of Nineveh believed in G-d [elohim: possibly judges
as well]; and they proclaimed a fast,....the news
reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne,...And he
caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the
decree of the king and his nobles, saying: 'Let neither man
nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed,
nor drink water; but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man
and beast, and let them cry mightily unto G-d; yea, let them turn
every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in
their hands. And G-d saw their works, that they turned from
their evil way;
That their repenting included the animals implies
that their sinning involved animals. This may be an allusion to
bestiality, eating meat from a living animal, or both.
SET UP JUDGES AND COURTS
Genesis 14:18-20
"And
Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and
he was priest of G-d the Most High... and
he (Abraham) gave him a tenth of all."
Deuteronomy
1:16-17
"And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes
between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his
brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not
respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great
alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the
judgment is G-d's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye
shall bring unto me, and I will hear it."
Deuteronomy 17:5
"If
there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood
and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise,
and get thee up unto the place which the L-RD thy G-d shall
choose.... And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence,
which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD
shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that
they shall teach thee.... According to the law which they shall
teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell
thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence
which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the
left."
Unknown to many who are not Jews, one of the
most common terms used in reference to the Almighty is also a term
used in reference to judges. This word,
Elohim or Aloh'heem,
which refers to an exceedingly powerful authority (All-powerful),
like the Almighty
[hence, the
plural form of the word in reference to the ONE Creator],
is also used to
refer to powerful authorities - judges and courts.
Genesis 2:16
"And the L-RD E'loheem commanded the man, saying: 'Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;"
In Genesis 2:16,
by using the word
E''LOHEEM
in reference to the Creator, Adam must recognize that he should
submit to the All-Powerful Authority, the Creator. Just as Genesis
2:16 alludes to the other commands given to Adam, by using the word
eloheem,
it implies following the commands of the Almighty as expressed by
authoritative courts. These courts themselves must, of course,
uphold His commands. This includes the courts enforcement of His
commands. This idea is further clarified in Deuteronomy 1:16-17 and
in
Deuteronomy
17:8-12. Without courts and judges to enforce the
laws and to clarify matters unclear to the public, the world would
turn into chaos. We must submit to the ruling authorities as an act
of submission to the Ultimate Ruling Authority, since they are His
representatives on earth. We must submit to them only so much as
they submit to the Almighty. If courts and judges make rulings or
take actions contrary to essential commands of the Almighty, they
are guilty of leading the masses astray. In such a case they should
not be listened to.
Shekhem:
There is also an
allusion to a judgment agreed upon by the sons of Jacob concerning
Shekhem in Genesis 34. While they were correct in executing
judgment, Jacob was not happy at the way in which they executed it,
having carried out their judgment with seemingly excessive revenge.
Nineveh
Jonah 3:5-10 “The people of
Nineveh believed in G-d [elohim: possibly judges
as well ];
and they proclaimed a fast,....the news reached the king of Nineveh,
and he arose from his throne,...And he caused it to be proclaimed
and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his
nobles, saying: 'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock,
taste any thing; let them not feed, nor drink water; but let
them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry
mightily unto G-d; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way,
and from the violence that is in their hands. And G-d saw
their works, that they turned from their evil way;
That the people of Nineveh’s repentance included the issuing of a
proclamation and decree by Nineveh’s King and nobles alluds to a
precedent in Noahide law to establish courts contained in the 7 Laws
of Noah. It is clear that the acts of repentance that Nineveh’s
citizens did nullified their punishment.
OTHER DETAILS IN NOAHIDE LAW CONCERNING AJUDICATION:
Cain killed Abel - the Bible teaches in Genesis that the punishmen
tis the death penalty - "a man who sheds blood, by man shall his
blood be shed."
Witnesses & Judges
Cain's fear that people would want to take his life due to his
having murdered his brother idincates that the expected result for
murdering someone was already that the life of the murderer should
be taken; so why does HaShem seem to prevent the carrying out of
His own laws by providing protection for Cain via the special
sign/mark He gave him? To teach us that HaShem alone was witness,
and the carrying out of the death sentence against a murderer via
court ajudication requires a human witness, and not merely
judgment by the Hand of Heaven. Why then does under Moses the
Torah says that by the testimony of two or three a matter is
settled / established, if the requirement for a human witness
already existed since the first generation of man? To teach us
that under the eternal "Mosaic" Covenant with Israel there is
something different. Where as before among the children of
Israel only one witness was required, when they were only under
the Noahide Law, after having entered the Covenant at Mt.
Sinai two witnesses are required. Whereas for Israel 3 are the
minimum fo rwitnesses of judgment in a court, previously - when
Israel was subject to the Original "Noahide Law," only one judge
was required (allowed?) to witness judgment. What more? This is
to show us a certain similarity between the testimony in Israelite
Mosaic Law and the "Noahide Law" for the nations: Just as in
Israelite law in regard to the violation of any prohibition, only
a "kosher" male can serve as witness, so also in "Noahide law"
only a male who is "kosher (not worthy of death) according to "Noahide
law" is to serve as a witness or judge in a Noahide court.
Further, this parallel teaches the nations' obligations to
establish judicial systems that are in accordance with "Noahide
Law," which requires that such courts be upright in midoth
(character traits) for the proper and honest application of
Noahide Law, just as is required for judges in Mosaic law.
Revenger of Blood
Why would Cain expect that others may seek his life apparently
without worry that they may be punished for taking his own life,
though there were no witnesses to his murder, in which case
he would have been obligated him to suffer the death sentence
according to Noahide law, so that a exceptional mark was given
upon him as a sign and a special warning? To teach us that just
as in Israelite "Mosaic" Law the revenger of blood is not punished
if he revenges the blood of the one the murderer killed, likewise
in Noahide law.
Ho'ra'ah Sha'ah (Temporary Suspension of a Command)
What does the exceptional assitance granted to Cain teach us?
That just as with Israelite "Mosaic" Law - the law can in
expectional cases / situations be temporarily suspended, as in the
case of Eliyahu (Elijah)'s building of an alter and offering
sacrifice upon it in a place other than the Temple - an act which
carries a severe punishment according to Israelite "Mosaic" Law,
so also with the special expcetional despensation granted to Cain
as protection against a revener of blood. In all such cases the
dispensation is limited and exceptional, not replacing the
preceeding law. For just as we do not see Eliyahu (Elijah) or
later righteous prophets establishing as a continual practice the
building of alters and offering sacrifices outside the Temple, so
also with the case of Cain, we do not see the favor bestowed upon
him which protected him against the judgment of a revenger of
blood bestowed upon all.
Blessed is He who grants prophecy and preserves His Original
Instruction.
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