• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Not sacrificing his son is actually a late edit, this is known because through though they changed the text to an angel stopping him, it still preserved the original language that describes ‘‘THEY went up the mountain’’ and ‘‘HE came down the mountain’’

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      There’s evidence that ancient Israelites, like most other cultures in that area, practiced human sacrifice.

      Elsewhere in the Bible, Jepthah sacrifices his daughter in Judges 11. No angels intervene.