Pregnancy by Seduction: STA

Unhealthy Sexuality: SCB

Ejaculation: SCBT ZRH

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him so that another man has sexual relations (SCBT ZRH) with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act). (Numbers 5:13)

Womb

Miscarry

May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.” (Numbers 5:22)

Sacred Sex Trade

Decline in Sexual Health: HLL

You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. (Numbers 15:39)

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality (ZNH, sacred sex trade) with Moabite women. (Numbers 25:1)

Genital Sexual Intercourse

…every woman who has slept with (YDA) a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with (YDA) a man. (Numbers 31:17)

Adultery

“You shall not commit adultery. (Deuteronomy 5:18)

Covet

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. (Deuteronomy 5:21)

Fall in Love

If you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. (Deuteronomy 21:11)

Have Sexual Intercourse With

…and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. (Deuteronomy 21:13)

Give Birth to

If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love. (Deuteronomy 21:15)

Genital Sexual Intercourse

Virginity

If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her

and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity.” (Deuteronomy 22:13-14)

Incest

A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed. (Deuteronomy 22:30)

Nocturnal Emission

If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.  But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp. (Deuteronomy 23:10-11)

Male and Female Sacred Sex Trade Workers

No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.

You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both. (Deuteronomy 23:17-18)

YBM

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.” (Deuteronomy 25:5-7)

Male Genitals, Private Parts

If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts. (Deuteronomy 25:11)

Rape

You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. (Deuteronomy 28:30)

Afterbirth

…the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. (Deuteronomy 28:57)

Summary

The first three sexual health terms in the book of Numbers connect to sexual seduction:

pregnancy by seduction, STA, erotic violence, SCB, and conception in the course of adultery, SCBT ZRH. 

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him so that another man has sexual relations (SCBT ZRH) with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act). (Numbers 5:13)

These terms reflect a seduction narrative. “Goes astray” is the Hebrew term STA with a range of meaning: deviation from duty, decline, go aside, turn. (Strong, H7847) This word has a nuance in the Ethiopic language “to be seduced”. Either the female or the male initiates the seduction and the result of the affair is conception, SCBT ZRH. These two words literally mean unhealthy sexuality and seed. The Greek translates SCBT ZRH as “sperm in bed”. The idea seems to be when the two partners had intercourse the male ejaculated resulting in conception. (Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon) What follows are the only abortion protocols in the Bible. 

The abortion protocol of Numbers 5 involves a questionable pregnancy. In order to determine the fatherhood of a child, the priest administers a “morning after” solution to the female. If it has no effect, then this proves she did not have an affair. However, if her womb, BTN, pronounced be-TEN swells and the child miscarries, YRK NPL, pronounced ya-RAKE naw-PALL, the pregnancy terminates. The Hebrew words imply, “the embryo falls or wastes away”. (Strong, H3409 and H5307) The induced miscarriage then confirms the pregnancy was the result of seduction and adultery.

The term for the sacred sex trade is ZNH appearing in Numbers 15:39. The translators use the words prostitute or sexual immorality. ZNH has little connection to modern prostitution or perceptions of morality. ZNH is the coercive trafficking of humans for profit in a religious setting. ZNH appears six times in Numbers and Deuteronomy. 

With the term for sacred sex trade Numbers 25:1 features the trigger word for decline of conscious awareness or escalation of violence and abuse. The word translated “began” is the Hebrew term, HLL, whose majority of uses signals some kind of decline of culture. The pathogenesis or decline of sexual health often begins with the Hebrew word, HLL (Strong, H2490).  HLL, חָלַל, pronounced ha-LAL, means to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, to begin, to defile oneself sexually, to wound, to pierce. The majority of uses for the Hebrew word HLL connect to decline of intimacy with God.

You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. (Numbers 15:39)

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began (HLL) to indulge in sexual immorality (ZNH, sacred sex trade) with Moabite women. (Numbers 25:1)

She shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 22:21)

You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both. (Deuteronomy 23:18)

And the LORD said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.” (Deuteronomy 31:16)

Genital Sexual Intercourse: YDA

The premier sexual health positive term for genital intercourse in Genesis 4:1, YDA, repeats in Numbers 31:17. YDA means emotional, spiritual, and physical intimacy.

…every woman who has slept with (YDA) a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with (YDA) a man. (Numbers 31:17)

Adultery and covet appear in the second telling of the Ten Commandments. These sexual health terms connect word for word to the sexual sobriety and teachings of Jesus and New Testament writers.

“You shall not commit adultery. (Deuteronomy 5:18)

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. (Deuteronomy 5:21)

A new sexual health term appears in Deuteronomy 21:11. The word is HSHK, pronounced khaw-SHAWK. (Strong, H2836)  The range of meaning includes to cling, join, love, take pleasure in, set in love.

If you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. (Deuteronomy 21:11)

Another intercourse term appears, “to go to”. The Hebrew word is BOE, and can mean sexual intercourse.

…and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. (Deuteronomy 21:13)

The word draw near, QRB, can also mean sexual intercourse. In this case when a man has intercourse with a new bride and she cannot demonstrate that she is a virgin on the wedding night, then the groom has legal grounds to divorce her.

If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her

and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity.” (Deuteronomy 22:13-14)

Genesis 6-11 is the sexual health snap shot laying the foundation for protecting children from sexual violence. Chapter six gives the back story to the judgement of flooding the earth and the rescuing of Noah and his family on the ark.  This translation is based on the Hebrew text and the Book of Enoch, a first century BCE non Biblical source. 

“When (unhealthy sexuality increased, HLL) among human beings on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and married any of them they chose.  Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not (fight) with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.  (Sexual predators coerced, BO unhealthy sexuality) the daughters of humans and impregnated them. They were the (infamous tyrants of history).” (Genesis 6:1-4) 

HLL, unhealthy sexuality, of verse one can connect to form an inclusio with verse four, “sexual predators coerced.”This proposed translation not only connects more closely to the version of Enoch but seems to make a coherent transition to the next section.

The Lord saw how great the (violent abuse, RA, רע) of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only (coercive, RA, רע) all the time.  The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.  So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the crea- tures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6:5-8)

The author of Numbers and Deuteronomy uses exact vocabulary from the flood snapshot in Genesis 6-11; HLL, BO, and the phrase for incest, “uncovering” the skirt.   It appears the Genesis 6-11 snapshot influenced the prohibition for incest in Deuteronomy 22:30.

A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed. (Deuteronomy 22:30)

Reproduction reflected the power to create. Ancient man revered reproductive fluids and used numerous hygiene protocols for menstruation and transmission of semen. 

If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.  But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp. (Deuteronomy 23:10-11)

The sacred sex trade with the coercive sex trafficking of humans for profit is the underlying driver for the exile of the people of Israel. Jesus teaches that one reason for divorce is active participation in the sacred sex trade. Paul and the writer of Revelation both agree that the sexual violence of the sex trade has not place in God’s kingdom. Two specific terms for the sex trade appear in Deuteronomy 23:17-18.

No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.

You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both. (Deuteronomy 23:17-18)

The literal Hebrew text states, 

לֹא־תִהְיֶה קְדֵשָׁה מִבְּנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶה קָדֵשׁ מִבְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃

Let there be no female holy sacred sex trade worker from the sons of Israel. Let there be no male  holy sacred sex trade worker from the sons of Israel.  (Deuteronomy 23:17)

Two new terms appear for the first time in the Old Testament, the payment for intercourse with a sacred sex trade worker, אֶתְנַן, eth-NAWN and profit, מְחִיר, meh-HERE, from the sex trade. (Strong, H868 and H4242)

לֹא־תָבִיא אֶתְנַן זוֹנָה וּמְחִיר כֶּלֶב בֵּית יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְכָל־נֶדֶר כִּי תוֹעֲבַת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

Do not bring payment for intercourse with a female sacred sex trade worker, nor profit from sex with a male sex trade worker (dog) to the house of the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 23:18)

Deuteronomy 25-28 outline “various laws” for the people of Israel. The sexual health terms are the YBM or marriage laws in the event of the death of a husband. Marriage codes permit a surviving brother to marry the widowed sister in law for protection and inheritance. This is kind of a life insurance policy for ancient Near Eastern women. (Deuteronomy 25:5-7) So, if two guys fist fight, and the wife intervenes by grabbing the opponent’s private parts or genitals, then she is to be punished. (Deuteronomy 25:11) Protection from sexual violence is an ongoing theme from Genesis 6-11 with incest prevention, the Sodom and Gomorrah snap shot, Christ’s mandate against child abuse in Matthew 18, Paul’s zero tolerance for condemnation, and the Book of Revelation’s concern for sex trafficking. The final two sexual health terms predict sexual violence when Israel loses intimacy with God. The word for rape is SGL, pronounced sha-GAWL. ( Strong, H7693) SGL appears four times in the Hebrew OT and always means sexual violence. The last term is afterbirth, שִׁלְיָה, pronounced shill-YAH. (Strong, H7953) The author predicts the violence of the Assyrian invasion of 722 BCE, and the Babylonian sacking of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. With prolonged siege and starvation, the writer predicts mothers will consume the placenta of their children. (Strong, H7988)

You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. (Deuteronomy 28:30)

…the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. (Deuteronomy 28:57)

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