steve howard's translation of the Torah
to Rah: THE PAGAN'S PROTEST

'if a god made me like this, it serves him right.'
jose wombat

TORAH

exodus

 

chapter 01:

Jacob came with 69 descendants to Egypt. Joseph came to the end of his life, as did all of his brothers. But the children of their children kept interbreeding until the land was filled with Israelites.

The Pharaoh who was a great friend and admirer of Joseph and his family of Landlords died too and a new king took over who didn't know Joseph.

"Look, there are too many Israelites. Why do they have great wealth and the Egyptians not. They are the cause of our troubles. The sheep herding Hebrews out number us. They are such a great number that they may decide to join our enemies to fight us. We must keep them down."

Forshadowing.

A militant task force was put in place to oppress the children of Jacob with forced labor. The Israelites were declared slaves and they were forced to build store cites for Pharaoh Pithom and Raameses. But still, they increased the more. And Egyptians came to dread them.

Making bricks, working in the fields and pumping out babies like they were preparing to build a large army.

The king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, "Kill the new born boys. You can let the girls live but we must cut down the number of potential soldiers."

They midwives didn't listen to the Pharaoh for they feared the God of Abraham. Or maybe they didn’t like killing babies.

So the Pharaoh came back later and asked why they hadn’t done as they were told.

They said the Hebrew women were not like the Egyptian women; the Hebrew women just dropped the babies out in the field.

The multiplying continued out of control.

The Pharaoh proclaimed:

"Throw the fuckin' baby Hebrew boys in the fuckin' Nile."


chapter 02

The story goes that a Levite married a Levite and had a son. After hiding the boy for three months, they made a basket watertight and set it in the reeds of the Nile with the crocodiles. His sister watched to see what happened to the baby.

The daughter of Pharaoh just happened along and ordered her slave to get the baby for her. She sent her slave to get a Hebrew to nurse it. When the baby was done breastfeeding, the Pharaoh's daughter, Anna Bell, made him her son and called him, vs. 10: Moses, explaining, "I drew him out of the water." EQ.

For those who do not understand fairy tale euphemisms, this is a classic. It is a classic euphemism for rape and or incest. For any kind of a bastard child. In all likeliness, Moses was vs. 19: “An Egyptian.” EQ.

The reason the Pharaoh’s daughter took an interest in this one particular boy that was supposedly floating around with all the other drowning Hebrew boys among the crocodiles is that the child was her child. And for those who find this too wild, learn a little about the nature of the kings of our history. Her father, the Pharaoh, was the father and grandfather of Moses. And when the reader understands this, the story of Moses makes much more sense. Where as Lot was happy to say he was drunk so it was okay to rape his children, the Pharaoh had a family image to protect. He could not and would not recognize Moses as his son-grandson.


When Moses became a man, he decided to take a walk outside the palace and see what was happening in that land. He saw the Hebrews slaving. He saw an opportunity. Seeing an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, he spun around looking for witnesses, or lack of them. And killed the man. To show whose side he would like to be on. Next day it was all over town and the Pharaoh, his father-grandfather, wanted to kill the bastard Moses. So Moses fucked off to Midian. Sat beside a well. And waited for an opportunity.

Seven daughters of the Priest of Midian showed up to water their flock. Some tough guy shepherds told them to be gone and Moses said no he was with them and would help them water their flock. Back home, the priest, Reuel, was surprised that the girls had watered the flock so fast and learning the reason wanted to break bread with Moses. Moses said yes. Why do you think I am here. Reuel gave Moses his daughter Zipporah, the oldest and past overdue for breeding. They had a son, he named it, vs. 22: Gershom, for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land." EQ.

Vs. 23: A long time after that, the King of Egypt died. EQ.

The slaves had it bad. The Israelites were moaning so much it woke God from his 400 year nap. He looked down and saw them.

Vs. 24: God heard their moaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. 25. God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them. EQ.


chapter 03

Moses was wandering around with Jethro’s, his father-in-law’s, Sheep, drinking Newfy Screetch Whisky in the hot sun and saw a bright red bush and was amazed. It seemed to be on fire. He started making God proclamations similar to those of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or any other megalomaniac.

His long lost Lord was on the other side of the bush, or at least an Angel of the Lord.

Vs. 4: When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush: “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.” 5. And he said, “Do not come closer. Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. EQ.

After the normal protocol with the chosen people, angels and Lord's, God raves on about Ab, Isaac and Jacob. Like a broken record taken off the shelf after 400 years not being played.

God says, "Okay, you have done the slave thing long enough. The Israelites are now a great number. It's time for war. You will go to your half brother, the Pharaoh, and make outrageous demands that he will have to deny."

“Makes sense to me.”

God promised the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk, honey and metal resources. We will kill ‘em all.

"Go tell the Pharaoh you are packing up and leaving. Tell the Pharaoh that God has chosen you to lead his people."

"You want me to be the leader of the Israelites."

"You and me, Moses. I am God Almighty. I can do whatever I want. Tell the Hebrew elders God is back from his 400 year holiday on Saturn and is itching for some terror and war and plunder here on Earth."

"Okay, so I am to say God sent me. We have many gods in Egypt. What name shall I say."

Vs. 14: "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh." EQ.

Vs. 15: That shall be my name forever. EQ.

This, Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, can be translated, the JPS tells us: “I am That I am”; I am who I am”; “I will be What I Will be”, etc. EQ.

And that is very cool. That is philosophy. It is the ‘breaking through to the other side’ as Jim Morrison sang for us. It is the primate embracing its future as the gods. Taking on knowledge, wisdom and awareness of being in the realm of the ever changing real. Knowing that it is and we are in it now.

"Go tell the elders the misery is over. Then go with the elders to Pharaoh. Tell a story like you talked to God and wanna spend a few days in the wilderness. But he won't let you so we'll do up some terror shows. When we've fucked with them enough, we will take all their silver, gold and clothing. When we are done with them, they will beg you to leave."


chapters 04 - 06