MC asked;
So they shouldn't be taken literally? So if it says you should not steal
it's OK to steal sometimes?

MC...quit being a shrew...you know as well as I do that certain books of the
Old Testament are allegorical, some are genealogical, and some historical.
Some of the history is laden with with epic events, some of those
allegorical in nature.
You make a very poor Devil's Advocate. And if there is a lesson taught in
an allegory, it is a truism no less than if it is a lesson taught through
history. --
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