“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic,
racist, infanticidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” - Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
racist
Interracial marriage is a "great evil”
Nehemiah 13:23 – 30 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying,
Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves...Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in
marrying strange wives? ...Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, ... KJV
The descendents of one of Noah's grandsons are cursed to be slaves to the others
Genesis 9:24 – 27 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said,
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant. KJV
Racism and territorialism. "They shall not live in your land”
Exodus 23:23 – 33 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and
I will cut them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but
thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. And ye shall serve the Lord your God…I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee...
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. KJV
Shun the Ammonites and the Moabites
Deuteronomy 23:3 – 6
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever: Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt…Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. KJV
Kick out all foreigners
Nehemiah 13:3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the
mixed multitude. KJV
Forty-two thousand people killed because of their accent
Judges 12:4 – 6 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim…when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth:
for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
KJV
Can be acquired from neighboring nations and resident aliens
Leviticus 25:44 – 46 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have:
you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you. You may also buy from among
the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and
they may be your property. RSV
