What they were ordered to do to the Egyptians, they were ordered to do to all the nations they could lay their hands upon. The lands and goods of others were to be seized by force. Stealing was forbidden if the property belonged to a Jew; it was sanctioned if the property belonged to the "heathen." _Murder_ is plainly commanded in the following text: _Slay every man his brother, and every man his companion and every man his neighbour._ ** * Ancient Faiths, etc., Vol. II, page 77. ** Exodus iii, 21, 22. There is hardly a page in the Old Testament which is not red with bloodshed. _Lying_ was approved by the deity. Moses was commanded to tell a falsehood to Pharaoh, as were many of the other prophets advised to practice deception. Despite all the plagues which God is said to have sent upon the Egyptians to prove his might and power to deliver his people out of bondage, it was found necessary, as a last resort, to tell a lie to the king of Egypt to induce him to permit their departure. Upon being asked by Pharaoh why and where they wanted to go, Moses answered: _The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword._ * While planning to go on an expedition to seize the lands which their God had promised them, they tell Pharaoh that they only desire to hold some kind of a prayer-meeting in the desert, after which they would come back, supposedly to return the jewels of gold and silver they had borrowed from the neighbors. The falsehood was effective when all the miracles had failed. The Egyptians actually, if the story is true, allowed the Jews to rob them before they left. God also commanded Samuel to lie: _And the Lord said unto Samuel... I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord._ ** In the same way, the bible, it is to be regretted, sanctions sexual immorality. _And the Lord said to Hosea, Go take unto thee a wife of whoredom._ *** Again, the Lord commands: _When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her... thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will._ **** Not a word is said about obtaining the woman's consent. And the following: _But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves._ (v) * Exodus v, 3. ** Samuel xvi, 1, 2. *** Hosea i, 2. **** Deuteronomy xxi, 10-14. v. Numbers xxxi, 18.