# Moses Brother Aaron **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102 "2007-12-15T14:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102/21 "2007-12-19T04:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=Ruffian] Not to veer far off the OP’s path, but…man, you haven’t even scratched the surface of the weird sexual stuff in the Old Testament. I’m a Christian, though not of the “fundie” type, and I had my jaw on the floor about some of the stuff in there. At one point, Lot’s daughters decide to get their father drunk so they can have sex with him. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. The story didn’t end up going down that path, but…bleh. A little too Ricky Lake for me. [/QUOTE] This is the kind of stuff I picked up from reading the Old Testament that got me thrown out of Sunday School at age 7. I found that Fundamentalists don’t like you asking questions about the more objectionable bits of the Bible, even (or perhaps especially) if they’re perfectly innocent questions. I was more wigged out about Lot offering his (allegedly) virgin daughters to the crowd so that they’d leave him and his ‘guests’ alone. And this is a good and pious man? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102/22 "2007-12-19T04:52:19Z")
Stranger on a Train: > [@](#): > > I was more wigged out about Lot offering his (allegedly) virgin daughters to the crowd so that they’d leave him and his ‘guests’ alone. And this is a good and pious man? No, Lot was a very flawed man - the kind who would choose to live in a place like Sodom. G-d protected him to some degree as a favor to Abraham, but nowhere is it implied that Lot was considered “pious” by the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![Anchuldigs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anchuldigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anchuldigs)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102/23 "2007-12-19T05:48:56Z")
Hey, if you have to repopulate an entire post-flood planet… hehehe it was post destruction of Soddom and Gommorah, not the flood. Lot’s daughters thought that the entire world was destroyed, not just soddom and gommorah. Therefore, they considered it their duty to repopulate the planet. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102/24 "2007-12-19T13:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit] IIRC, didn’t the Pharoah of Moses’ day have oh, about 50 bazillion kids anyway? [/QUOTE] An archeologist by the name of Ken Weeks, found that Pharoh’s son’s grave sites, and If I remember correctly there was 50 sons and all lived to adulthood. There was names and writings by each son’s burial place,and I do not believe it mentioned his daughters and as I understand it the Pharoh had 100 children. That was Ramses the 2d who was believed to be Pharoh during that period. A jewish man told me once that they considered a Meses(May not be the correct spelling) to be the Moses of the OT. But he agreed that if Moses was a historical person he too thought that the Egyptians would have wrote more about him. Monavis ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102/25 "2007-12-19T18:00:21Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Stranger on a Train: No, Lot was a very flawed man - the kind who would choose to live in a place like Sodom. G-d protected him to some degree as a favor to Abraham, but nowhere is it implied that Lot was considered “pious” by the Bible. [/QUOTE] Chaim, That’s because you (and I) are not looking in the right place: 2 Peter 2 (NIV) > [@](#): > > f he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued **Lot, a righteous man** , who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) Now neither you nor I may put much stock in Peter, but it’s possible that Stranger does. Zev Steinhardt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-brother-aaron/430102.md?page=1)