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| 28 Thou shalt '''not revile'''<Ref name="qalal">{{07043}}</Ref> [(תְקַלֵּ֑ל) ṯəqallêl [[Double Lamed]]Kuf'''[[Tav]]''' ] the [[gods]],<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> nor [[curse]](normally Alef[[Double Reish]] but here (תָאֹֽר) TavAlefReish)<Ref name="arar">{{0779}}</Ref>  the ruler of thy people.
| 28 Thou shalt '''not revile'''<Ref name="qalal">{{07043}}</Ref> [(תְקַלֵּ֑ל) ṯəqallêl [[Double Lamed]]Kuf'''[[Tav]]''' ] the [[gods]],<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> nor [[curse]](normally Alef[[Double Reish]] but here (תָאֹֽר) TavAlefReish)<Ref name="arar">{{0779}}</Ref>  the ruler of thy people.
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| 29-30 Thou shalt not delay to [[sacrifice]] for the needy (firstborn).
| [[Exodus 22]]:29-30 The word ''delay'' is from אָחַר‎ ‘achar<Ref name="achar">{{0309}}</Ref> but appears as with an additional [[Tav]] as תְאַחֵ֑ר ṯəaḥêr which we also see in Moses' [[Deuteronomy 23]]:21 which is about being slack in giving what you should give to the LORD rather than a time limit.
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| If these sacrifices are funding a national [[social safety net]] through [[freewill offerings]] then at 8 days there will be little value to the needy and only benefit to you because you may be able to take the milk from the mother who is no longer sucking its young.
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|  If we look at [[Leviticus 22]]:27 we may dedicate the ownership anytime after the eighth day some thing may be sacrificed to the [[LORD]]. These verses may  help provide an understanding of the intent of [[Exodus 23]]:19, [[Exodus 34]]:26, and [[Deuteronomy 14]]:21.
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28 Thou shalt not revile the [[gods]],<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> nor curse the ruler of thy people.
28 Thou shalt not revile the [[gods]],<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> nor curse the ruler of thy people.


29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
29 Thou shalt not delay ''to offer'' the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.


30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

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Moses, Jesus, and Elijah seem to have been in agreement and there seems to be a commonality or harmony in the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb.
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1 restore five oxen... and four sheep
2 right to defend with force.
3 restitution... for his theft. Hard labor
4 restore double for possession if stolen goods.
5 feed in another man's field... shall he make restitution.
6 ... kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
7 if the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 thief be not found... the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges[1]...
9 all manner of trespass... both parties shall come before the judges[1]; and whom the judges[1] shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
10-14 Liability for goods if there is fault including things are borrowed.
15 liability if a thing is hired.
16-17 entice a maid he may be held financially responsible. "he shall surely((מָהֹ֛ר)MemHeyReish māhōr)[2] endow((יִמְהָרֶ֥נָּה)YodMemHeyReishNunHey yimhārennāh)[2] her..."
18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch(məḵaššêp̄āh (מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה) MemKufShinPeiHey)[3] to live.(ṯəḥayyeh (תְחַיֶּֽה) TavChetYodHey)[4]
(מכשפה לא תחיה׃ ס) "In every form of witchcraft there is an appeal to a power not acting in subordination to the divine law." Barnes' Notes on the Bible
19 Beastiality put to death (yūmāṯ mō·wṯ (מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת׃) YodVavMemTav MemVavTav)[5] which can mean "to die, perish (of a nation)" and even "to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)". Cut off from His altars of social welfare. They cannot eat of the table of the faithful.
20 If someone sacrificeth unto any god (double dipping) utterly destroyed.[6] can mean "to ban, devote", "to prohibit (for common use), ban", and even "to split" away. Again they are banned from eating at the table or altars of the faithful. It is not about destroying nor putting to death people. It is about a daily ministration of faith, hope, and charity and not the One purse of the socialist city-state like Sodom or when you were in the bondage of Egypt where you sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full;[7] which are the cities of blood where "their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood".[8]
21 not "vex a stranger, nor oppress" like Egypt.
22-23 "not afflict any widow, or fatherless child" so they cry;
24 Cause and effect will come back on you.
25 "shalt not be to him as an usurer" to those are poorer.
26-27 Devastate thy neighbor.
28 Thou shalt not revile[9] [(תְקַלֵּ֑ל) ṯəqallêl Double LamedKufTav ] the gods,[1] nor curse(normally AlefDouble Reish but here (תָאֹֽר) TavAlefReish)[10] the ruler of thy people.
Exodus 22:29-30 The word delay is from אָחַר‎ ‘achar[11] but appears as with an additional Tav as תְאַחֵ֑ר ṯəaḥêr which we also see in Moses' Deuteronomy 23:21 which is about being slack in giving what you should give to the LORD rather than a time limit.
If these sacrifices are funding a national social safety net through freewill offerings then at 8 days there will be little value to the needy and only benefit to you because you may be able to take the milk from the mother who is no longer sucking its young.
If we look at Leviticus 22:27 we may dedicate the ownership anytime after the eighth day some thing may be sacrificed to the LORD. These verses may help provide an understanding of the intent of Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, and Deuteronomy 14:21.
31 be holy not "eat any flesh that is torn"
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Restitution and risk for stealing

1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

restitution for damages

5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges[1], to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

Trespass

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges[1]; and whom the judges[1] shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.[12]

12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good[12] that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely[12] make it good[12].

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good:[12] if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Laws About Social Justice

16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely[2] endow[2] her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 Thou shalt not revile the gods,[1] nor curse the ruler of thy people.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

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The Mesopotamian system of government has been described as "theocratic socialism." The center was the government temples, where public works like dikes and irrigation canals were financed but also food supplies were divided among the needy which was all managed by a powerful class of bureaucratic priests.
The model of these proto-states are seen in modern governments where power is increased or centralized by the people becoming dependent upon the state and its forms of civil religion which compelled contributions of its registered members with the promise of entitlements providing some form of free bread or social welfare or what has been called the dainties of these rulers.
The alternative was a network of fervent charity which was promoted by Moses and the Christ which sets the captive free rather than the Legal charity of the state which degenerates the masses while empowering rulers and tyrants.
Augustus Caesar instituted a similar system of free bread in Rome through its government temples which led to its decline and fall.
In more modern times FDR set up his New Deal and LBJ his Great Society which is presently leading to the same degeneration of the people and a corresponding decline of social bonds and fall of "Pure Religion" and loss of liberty.

Sumer and the proto-state

Sumer is one of the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

Biblically speaking Cain established the first city-state. A city-state, or polis, was the community structure of ancient Greece.

A city-state was often organized with an urban center in a fertile area. There might be outer walls for protection, as well as a public space that might eventually include included temples for the purposes of public welfare and government meeting places for deciding what might be important including the administration of justice and preparation for mutual defense.

One of the earliest sites of an ancient city-state is called Çatalhöyük or Catal Huyuk in southern Anatolia which appears to be founded around 7,400 BC. Catal Huyuk was not only streetless but had entrances through the roof and covered more than 30 acres. Very little is known about the people who lived there and it was suddenly abandoned, around 5,950 B.C. possibly because of diseases, overcrowding, and change in climate. Some believe the life span was only 3 decades.

Piecing the pieces of these ancient puzzles together can sometimes be difficult because we are still interpreting our discoveries based on limited information. The continued excavation of places like Sumer has revealed many tablets of written information which can give us some greater insight into the city-state administration and the how and why people lived in them.

Sumerian gods of welfare

Worshiping the ancient gods of Sumer has been promoted by the New York Times[13] where they praise the "the welfare city-state" claiming that in that civil society "Work was a duty, but social security was an entitlement. It was personified by the Goddess Nanshe, the first real welfare queen immortalized in hymn as a benefactor who "brings the refugee to her lap, finds shelter for the weak.""

The Sumerian cuneiform system of writing as early as 3000 B.C. allowed for the direct outgrowth of the invention and development of a civil society. The earliest documents found in a Sumerian city of Erech recorded administrative accounting of a civil bureaucracy along with more and more civil laws required to regulate that growing bureaucracy and those citizens dependent upon it.

There was a rise in education evidenced by school books unearthed in Shuruppak dated around 2500 B.C.. Early on there was evidence of a wide variety of topics taught including architecture, medicine, metallurgy, mathematics, botanical, zoological, geographical, and mineralogical, as well as literature. This literary output in the Mesopotamian civilization was not the first attempt of a human to express life, its values, and its meaning using fiction and art but it was simply one of the earliest written records that has survived and we have found. They were often just recording the culture and sense of virtuous social bonds of their predecessors which they praised and the clay tablets were more survivable than other media.

Individual rights were born with the Natural Law which is why Genesis starts with a Creator and the creation of mankind. Civil law is the law that men make for themselves and has often presented a conflict between those civil laws and Freedom of Religion. This is where and often where we see a "bitter struggle for power between the temple and the palace---the “church” and the “state”--- with the citizens ... taking the side of the temple" because of their dependence upon the civil tables and dainties of rulers through their systems of legal charity.

During the reign of Urukagina[14] there was opposition to "the wealth and criminality of the tamkarum [merchant-moneylenders]" who had enslaved the people. It is in the historical cuneiform "document that we find the word “freedom” used for the first time in man's recorded history; the word is amargi..." which may literally be translated "return to the mother" or her womb[15] an idea that suggest the born again comments of Jesus.

The term ama-argi or ama-gi in the cuneiform writing produced the idea of "freedom", as well as "manumission", "exemption from debts or obligations", "reversion to a previous state" Akk. anduraāru.[16] That liberty was only found in the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Reading Sumerian literature found in these cuneiform tablets, we find that the people were seeking someone to save them from their "animal nature". Since that animal nature often manifested with a lack of one or more socially desirable of virtues, their stories often included characters or heroes who had an abundance of those virtues. These Sumerians gods identified in these clay tablets were humans who ate, drank, sleep, marry, and have children but they often excelled in one of these virtues which the Sumerians prized and praised.

The Sumerians, Akkadians, and Babylonians in Mesopotamia had "gods many" described in their epics as humans, as wise kings who live lives, are mourned on passing and sometimes immortalized like Ishtar's lament[17] of the people who perished in the great flood of Utnapishtim.[18]

King or no King

Gilgamesh, king of Uruk[19] and Sumerian hero, is mentioned in a version of The Book of Giants found at Qumran. As a heroic epic it is not merely literature is a story about the struggle of everyman with his virtuous desires and his animal nature for Gilgamesh did great things for the nation but also to its people as his power made him a despot to the masses.[20]

The citizens “cried out to heaven” to the god of the sky, Anu, who supposedly suggested a division or balance of power by sending Enkidu to keep Gilgamesh but eventually they become allies which we see with every two party system. The real problem goes much deeper into the heart and soul of the people.

There was also an attempt to subdue or shackle the Leviathan of a bureaucracy that has developed a life and tyranny of its own. In the American colonies it was not the old King George the III who' ate out the substance of the people' but the "swarms of offices", who like locust are their own plague. Like Justice William O. Douglas said the new King George that makes a government despotic by its vast bureaucracy.[21]

As we examine the true story of Moses and certainly Jesus Christ and The Way there are elements of their world we do not find in what has come down as the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Covenants and constitutions

Of course the Bible of Moses tells us in Deuteronomy 17: what we should put in a constitution to keep any king in check. But before that he gave you 12 Rules for Life.


In 1 Samuel 8 we are warned what manner of king any man will become[22] any man will become with such power from the people. What would happen if the people even desired a king who offer protection which is what we see with King Saul who immediately foolishly chooses to force a sacrifice and certainly see with King Gilgamesh.[20]

But if we also sit the tables of plenty the dainties these rulers serve will become a "snare and a trap" and a stumblingblock of recompence according to Paul and David.

Moses was setting up a different system of social welfare through living altars of stone without the civil law regulations of the social welfare states of Ur or Sumer but more in the traditions of Abraham and Able. This system included a division of power for all the social welfare was provided by freewill offerings, or the charity and love as commanded by Jesus Christ. This was contrary to the covetous practices seen in the Corban of the Pharisees set up by the civil government of Herod.

Abraham, Moses, and the prophets, as well as John the Baptist, Jesus and the warnings of the Apostles all agree and are contrary to the way of Cain, Nimrod, Sodom, Pharaoh, Caesar, and socialists like FDR and and opportunists seeking power like LBJ, or even communists like Cloward and Piven or Marx and Mao.

This same conflict is at play within every society in the reliance on individual or personal welfare versus communal welfare, trusting friendship versus cultural isolation. personal welfare versus communal welfare and about the kind of social actors that American citizens should become. Seen in this way, Social Security reform is probably intractable pending a political consensus about about fundamental moral principles. Hardy and Hazelrigg have written this book, they say, because they want a better debate about Social Security.[23]

The Goddess of welfare

Sumer did establish a welfare to provide for their city-states where the right to social welfare was an an entitlement in a civil system symbolized by the Goddess Nanshe (see also Nanse, Nassi, Nazi) who was immortalized in their literature and in an ancient hymn as a benefactor.

Praise of the god Nanshe[24] Who knows the orphan, who knows the widow,
Knows the oppression of man over man, is the orphan's mother,
Nanshe, who cares for the widow,
Who seeks out ... justice ... for the poorest
The queen brings the refugee to her lap,
Finds shelter for the weak[25]

Nanshe[24] was considered a "tutelary deity" of social justice and social welfare. Nanshe was one of the oldest known tutelary goddesses of Mesopotamian cities, along with Nisaba, Ezina, Inanna of Uruk and Inanna or Ishtar. An essential civil power to operate those social welfare systems came from her father, Enki who granted her tutelary powers under his civil authority.

As a protector and benefactor of various disadvantaged groups, such as orphans, widows or people belonging to indebted households these goddesses provided welfare through what could only be identified as civil bureaucracy in the Mesopotamian city. An administrative text lists grain rations for a widow alongside that grain meant for Nanshe's clergy who administered to these needy.[26]


Gods of socialism

The Mesopotamian systems of government were systems of "theocratic socialism that expanded their authority and reduce the ability of the people to resist that power. The center of these systems were seen in the function of their government temples which provided a wide range of services including public works like dikes and irrigation canals which were financed by contributions of the people in the form of investments or taxation.

Like the temples of Pharaoh's Egypt they also provided and distributed food supplies which were divided among the needy which was all managed by a powerful class of bureaucratic priests.

The model of these proto-states and the modern welfare state is this legal charity through forms of of public religion or civil religion providing a social safety net through compelled offerings. This results in the bands of the bondage of Egypt where a portion of your labor is no longer yours and binds the people in the error of Balaam and the Nicolaitan.

Pure Religion created similar social bonds but only through freewill offerings. These systems were rejected and even condemned by men like Moses of Exodus and Jesus and His followers of The Way. These systems of social welfare were a snare and a trap according to David and Paul. Because those tables of social welfare through the State were considered to be covetous practices run by men who exercise authority one over the other, we were told to not be that way and that any such system of legal charity was therefore idolatry.[27]

Many modern governments where power is increased or centralized because the masses who become accustomed to the welfare of state and its forms of civil religion funded by compelled contributions of its registered members with the promise of entitlements providing some form of free bread or social welfare or what has been called the dainties of these rulers.

The alternative was a network of fervent charity which was promoted by Moses and Jesus the Christ which sets the captive free rather than the Legal charity of the state which degenerates the masses and subjecting them in a snare of bondage while empowering rulers and tyrants.

Julius Caesar had a funded gifts gratuities and benefits of free bread to the people in Rome at the expense of their neighbor through its government temples which would lead to its decline and fall. We are warned about those practices in both Old and New Testaments, by all the prophets and by historians and poets by the Modern Church does not have eyes to see for their conscience is seared and are often under a strong delusion.

In more modern times FDR set up his New Deal and LBJ his Great Society which is presently leading to the same degeneration of the people and a corresponding decline of social bonds and fall of "Pure Religion" and loss of liberty.

The Religion of Secularism

Secularism seized the mind of the people when we changed the definition of religion and the masses sat down to eat at a table of legal charity.

The "theocratic socialism" of the modern socialist state is a form of public religion people get when they have no religion which begin with covetous practices and a departure from pure Religions with unsound doctrines and an apostacy of sophistry. The center of the temples of government is a vast bureaucracy which is managed by a powerful class of bureaucrats who provide the services of many ancient priests with little or no governing morality.

The model of these proto-states are seen in modern governments where power is increased or centralized by the people becoming dependent upon the state and its forms of civil religion which compelled contributions of its registered members with the promise of entitlements providing some form of free bread or social welfare or what has been called the dainties of these rulers.

The alternative was a network of fervent charity which was promoted by Moses and the Christ which sets the captive free rather than the Legal charity of the state which degenerates the masses while empowering rulers and tyrants.

Augustus Caesar and many of the emperors expanded that system of free bread in Rome through its government temples which led to its decline and fall.

Again, the legal charity of FDR set up his New Deal and expanded by LBJ and his Great Society promoted by Cloward and Piven would set large sections of society on a path that created an appetite for benefits and dainties of men who exercise authority. This of course did and does presently degenerate the people into perfect savages, but also merchandise, and will curse children with debt. But it will not only increase the bands of captivity but also causes a decline of social bonds and fall from "Pure Religion" and loss of liberty.



Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 0430 םיהלא AlefLamedHeyYodMem ‘elohiym el-o-heem’ plural of 0433; n m p; {See TWOT on 93 @@ "93c" } AV-God 2346, god 244, judge 5, GOD 1, goddess 2, great 2, mighty 2, angels 1, exceeding 1, God-ward + 04136 1, godly 1; 2606
    1) (plural)
    1a) rulers, judges
    1b) divine ones
    1c) angels
    1d) gods
    2) (plural intensive-singular meaning)
    2a) god, goddess
    2b) godlike one
    2c) works or special possessions of God
    2d) the (true) God
    2e) God
    • א Alef Father-Son- begin- The Paradox: God and Man - (ox bull) [strength, leader, first] (Numeric value: 1)
    • ל Lamed means Aspiration of the Heart or to learn or even direct like a shepherd. It has to do with what the Hand produces, [hand is די YodDalet] or directs with staff, whip... like the tongue may direct. (Numeric value: 30)
    • ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
    • י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
    • See also 03068 יְהוָֹה‎ Yëhovah and 0136 אֲדֹנָי‎ ‘Adonay Genesis 15:2
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 04117 מָהַר‎ mahar [maw-har’] a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as 04116 through the idea of readiness in assent); v; [BDB-555b] [{See TWOT on 1153 }] AV-endow 1, surely 1; 2
    1) to obtain or acquire by paying purchase price, give a dowry
    1a) (Qal) to obtain in exchange
  3. 03784 כָּשַׁף‎ kashaph [kaw-shaf’] KafShinPei a primitive root; v; [BDB-506b] [{See TWOT on 1051 }] also 03785 and 03786 AV-sorcerers 3, witch 2, witchcraft 1; 6
    b1) (Piel) to practice witchcraft or sorcery, use witchcraft
    1a) sorcerer, sorceress (participle)
    In the New Testament we see pharmakeus 5332 and pharmakeia 5331 associated with administering of drugs, poisoning and as a metaphor the deceptions and seductions of idolatry.
    כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
    ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
  4. 02421 ^היח^ chayah \@khaw-yaw’\@ a primitive root [compare 02331]; v; AV-live 153, alive 34, save 13, quicken 14, revive 12, surely 10, life 9, recover 8, misc 9; 262
    1) to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to live
    1a1a) to have life
    1a1b) to continue in life, remain alive
    1a1c) to sustain life, to live on or upon
    1a1d) to live (prosperously)
    1a2) to revive, be quickened
    1a2a) from sickness
    1a2b) from discouragement
    1a2c) from faintness
    1a2d) from death
    1b) (Piel)
    1b1) to preserve alive, let live
    1b2) to give life
    1b3) to quicken, revive, refresh
    1b3a) to restore to life
    1b3b) to cause to grow
    1b3c) to restore
    1b3d) to revive
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to preserve alive, let live
    1c2) to quicken, revive
    1c2a) to restore (to health)
    1c2b) to revive
    1c2c) to restore to life
  5. 04191 ^תומ^ muwth \@mooth\@ a primitive root MemVavTav; v; {See TWOT on 1169} |rely 50, kill 31, dead man 3, dead body 2, in no wise 2, misc 10; 835
    1) to die, kill, have one executed
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to die
    1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death
    1a3) to die, perish (of a nation)
    1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)
    1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch
    1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death
    1d) (Hophal)
    1d1) to be killed, be put to death
    1d1a) to die prematurely
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
    • ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
    • ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
    • other combination found together (ומת מות יומת) see Exodus 21 and Mark 7
  6. 02763 ^םרח^ charam \@khaw-ram’\@ a primitive root ChetReishMem; v; AV-destroy 34, utterly 10, devote 2, accursed 1, consecrate 1, forfeited 1, flat nose 1, utterly to make away 1, slay 1; 52 and is also a noun 02764 ^םרח^ cherem
    1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate
    1a) (Hiphil)
    1a1) to prohibit (for common use), ban
    1a2) to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction
    1a3) to exterminate, completely destroy
    1b) (Hophal)
    1b1) to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction
    1b2) to be devoted, be forfeited
    1b3) to be completely destroyed
    2) to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)
    2a) (Qal) to mutilate
    2b) (Hiphil) to divide
    • ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
  7. Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
  8. Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
  9. 07043 ^ללק^ qalal \@kaw-lal’\@ a primitive root KufLamedLamed with a double Lamed; v; AV-curse 39, swifter 5, light thing 5, vile 4, lighter 4, despise 3, abated 2, ease 2, light 2, lighten 2, slightly 2, misc 12; 82
    1) to be slight, be swift, be trifling, be of little account, be light
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to be slight, be abated (of water)
    1a2) to be swift
    1a3) to be trifling, be of little account
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be swift, show oneself swift
    1b2) to appear trifling, be too trifling, be insignificant
    1b3) to be lightly esteemed
    1c) (Piel)
    1c1) to make despicable
    1c2) to curse
    1d) (Pual) to be cursed
    1e) (Hiphil)
    1e1) to make light, lighten
    1e2) to treat with contempt, bring contempt or dishonour
    1f) (Pilpel)
    1f1) to shake
    1f2) to whet
    1g) (Hithpalpel) to shake oneself, be moved to and fro
    • See also 0779 (ררא) ‘arar with a double Reish meaning curse;
    • ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
    • ל Lamed means Aspiration of the Heart or to learn or even direct like a shepherd. It has to do with what the Hand produces, [hand is די YodDalet] or directs with staff, whip... like the tongue may direct. (Numeric value: 30)
    • ל Lamed means Aspiration of the Heart or to learn or even direct like a shepherd. It has to do with what the Hand produces, [hand is די YodDalet] or directs with staff, whip... like the tongue may direct. (Numeric value: 30)
  10. 0779 ^ררא^ ‘arar \@aw-rar’\@ a primitive root with a double Reish; v; AV-curse 62, bitterly 1; 63
    1) to curse
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to curse
    1a2) cursed be he (participle used as in curses)
    1b) (Niphal) to be cursed, cursed
    1c) (Piel) to curse, lay under a curse, put a curse on
    1d) (Hophal) to be made a curse, be cursed
    • AlefReishReish ^ררא^
    Alef= Paradox of God and Man
    Reish= Process of Clarification of Life's revelation.
    The double Reish expresses the cause and effect or spirit and truth of either conforming to the character or name of God or rejecting God in the eternal paradox or relationship of God and Man.
    See also 07043 (ללק) with a double Lamed
  11. 0309 אָחַר‎ AlefChetReish ‘achar [aw-khar’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-29a] [{See TWOT on 68 }] AV-tarry 7, defer 3, slack 2, continue 1, delay 1, hinder 1, stayed there 1, sit up late 1; 17
    1) to delay, hesitate, tarry, defer, remain behind
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to delay, tarry (intensive)
    1a2) to cause one to delay, hinder, keep back
    1b) (Piel) to delay, wait, stay behind (but not in hope)
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 07999 ^םלשׁ^ shalam \@shaw-lam’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-pay 19, peace 11, recompense 11, reward 10, render 9, restore 8, repay 7, perform 7, good 6, end 4, requite 4, restitution 4, finished 3, again 3, amends 1, full 1, misc 8; 116
    1) to be in a covenant of peace, be at peace
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to be at peace
    1a2) peaceful one (participle)
    1b) (Pual) one in covenant of peace (participle)
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to make peace with
    1c2) to cause to be at peace
    1d) (Hophal) to live in peace
    2) to be complete, be sound
    2a) (Qal)
    2a1) to be complete, be finished, be ended
    2a2) to be sound, be uninjured
    2b) (Piel)
    2b1) to complete, finish
    2b2) to make safe
    2b3) to make whole or good, restore, make compensation
    2b4) to make good, pay
    2b5) to requite, recompense, reward
    2c) (Pual)
    2c1) to be performed
    2c2) to be repaid, be requited
    2d) (Hiphil)
    2d1) to complete, perform
    2d2) to make an end of
  13. On Welfare in Sumer; No Society Rejoices At Helping Its Poor By Sam Roberts July 5, 1992.
  14. Urukagina was King of the city-states of Lagash and Girsu in Mesopotamia (a Sumerian city), and the last ruler of the 1st Dynasty of Lagash. He assumed the title of king, claiming to have been divinely appointed, upon the downfall of his corrupt predecessor, Lugalanda.
  15. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character By Samuel Noah Kramer documents of 2350 in the reign of Urukagina
  16. http://psd.meum.upenn.edu/epsd/e324.html
  17. "It is I who give birth, these people are mine! And now, like fish, they fill the ocean!” in the great flood of Utnapishtim
  18. Utnapishtim (or Utana’ishtim, Atra-Hasis, Ziusudra, Xisuthros) is a character in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. He is tasked by the god Enki to create a giant ship to be called Preserver of Life in preparation of a giant flood that would wipe out all life. The character appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  19. “See how its ramparts glean like copper in the sun. Climb the stone staircase … approach the Eanna Temple, sacred to Ishtar, a temple that no king has equaled in size or beauty, walk on the wall of Uruk, follow its course round the city, inspect its mighty foundations, examine its brickwork, how masterfully it is built, observe the land it encloses, the glorious palaces and temples, the shops and marketplaces, the houses, the public squares.”
  20. 20.0 20.1 “Who is like Gilgamesh? What other king has inspired such awe? Who else can say, “I alone rule supreme among mankind”? … The city in his possession, he struts through it, arrogant, his head raised high, trampling its citizens like a wild bull. He is king, he does whatever he wants, takes the son from his father and crushes him, takes the girl from her mothers and uses her … no one dares to oppose him.”
  21. “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution… the truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this country, irrespective of what party is in power.” Justice William O Douglas, in his book Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54).
  22. 1 Samuel 811 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 13 And he will take your daughters [to be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers. 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants. 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
  23. Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism by Eddy U. Review by: Wang Feng
  24. 24.0 24.1 Nanshe was a Mesopotamian goddess in various contexts associated with the sea, marshlands, the animals inhabiting these biomes, namely bird and fish, as well as divination, dream interpretation, justice, social welfare, and certain administrative tasks.
  25. This is a text translated from Sumerian documents describing the god- dess Nanshe: Kramer 1981, 104.
  26. The Nanshe Hymn by W Heimpel · 1981 · Cited — The oracle priest brings the first fruit offerings, the chef gets the oven going. Meat, liquor and water are brought. Nanshe makes administrative appointments. As a result, daily offerings can be drawn from the center granary."
  27. Covetousness is idolatry
    Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
    Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
    1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."