I was shocked at the spitting on a daughter’s face…and to what end, I thought. Surely God is not in error. Surely I need only to think on His intent. You said it was “ejaculating to demean”. If God is seen as our Father in heaven, and He means that while on earth our earthly father needs to take measure in its present culture, following a pattern designed in Israel at that time, SHAMING a daughter for 7 days (complete shame) that she can then be returned to the family or with Israel returned from outside the camp as with the leper, cleansed of her illness. Perhaps I am not reading you correctly but “ejaculation for shame”….those are not words defining God’s way instructed for man to follow…today, I don’t know how this plays out. To shame our children for example is not done the same way. That I am thankful for. But there is a chastisement that is of God…it doesn’t demean, it does not hurt, it is to bring man into a repentant heart.

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