The history of scripture and the scriptural people called Yasraelites is a record of one particular tribe or race of people, from Adam down to the Savior, and beyond that to the coming Kingdom of Creator Yahveh on earth.
It is not, however, a racist religious record excluding all other races on earth, as so many today teach, particularly the white supremacists and their "master race" ideologists.
While it is true that there was one family or lineage through which truth prevailed on earth through the lineage that gave the world Noah, Abraham, Moses, king David, the prophets Enoch, EliYahv, YasaYahv ("Isaiah"), Yazekiel ("Ezekiel"), "Yeremiah" ("Jeremiah"), Daniel, MalakYah ("Malachi"), the Savior Yahvsave, and His twelve disciples/Apostles, and many others from the "minor" prophets through Paul, it is so much more.
Racist Religionists
As Paul taught, the promises of salvation extend to all races on earth, those who are capable of responding to the call of salvation to embrace the true Savior, and call upon His name of salvation in living belief, to receive the promises made to Abraham and his descendants (cf. Romans 11:11-32).
Yet not all of Abraham's children will receive salvation, such as those who rebelled in the wilderness after being led out of Egypt under Moses, who sinned and refused to repent of their pagan and wicked ways.
Likewise, some races or tribes of peoples will simply never abandon their own individual cultures of spiritual criminality to live in peaceful harmony and coexistence among themselves and with all other races.
It simply isn't in their cultural or ideological, racist or religious perspective. These are those in whom a root of bitterness abides perpetually, especially against other races.
This includes those who teach that all races other than white people existed long before Adam, somehow survived the chaos and oblivion that preceded the creation recorded beginning in Genesis 1:1, and the worldwide flood in Noah's age (which they reject as being anything other than a local/regional flood), and are here on earth chiefly as the result of alien/fallen angelic interventions to produce counter-white racist cultures determined to destroy the racial identity or "purity" of the white race.
To them, all whites are descendants of Abraham, or Yasraelite, forgetting that the Assyrians -- who are also white -- are just one example of a white race, descended like Abraham from Noah's son Sem, but not from Abraham.
Hidden Behind False Doctrine
What does all this have to do with adultery? A lot, and everything, as you are about to learn.
Biblical scholars, steeped in their own peculiar religious biases have hidden certain spiritual truths in their prejudiced translations of scripture, corrupting the name of salvation -- in an attempt to eradicate it entirely from history, if possible -- among other commandments corrupted and twisted into a mockery of their original inspired form, such as "saturday" or "sunday" pseudo-"sabbaths," for instance.
The adultery commandment is another such example of often deliberate deception spanning centuries of religious misteachings, unrepentant heresies, and abiding ignorance of the evidence staring us starkly in our collective faces.
Let's explore this hidden truth, uncover the true meaning behind it, and rejoice to learn the intended and inspired teaching of the commandment against adultery.
A Brief History
First, a little background is necessary.
Noah divided the earth among his three sons and their respective families. Each was to inhabit their specifically designated territories, and not trespass into the areas or regions dedicated to their brother races (see: Genesis 11:8-9; Deuteronomy 32:8).
Those who did so came under a curse that has since fallen upon every racial descendant on earth of the three sons of Noah, other than those taken captive into territories other than their own, against their will and contrary to their every effort to remain in their own lands (cf. Book of Jubilees 8:10-30, 9:1-15, esp. verse 14: "And thus the sons of Noah divided unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, calling down a curse on every one that sought to seize the portion which had not fallen (to him) by his lot"; translated from an Ethiopic text by R.H. Charles; 1917).
Such forced relocations are an important part of history, particularly of the descendants of the twelve tribes of Yasrael, from the Egyptian captivity, to the Assyrian/Babylonian captivities.
Most of the tribes of Yasrael were forcibly taken and settled in the Caucasus region of northwestern Asia-minor by the Assyrians, another white race that later dispersed to the north and east, becoming the progenitors of the white Russians.
These Yasraelite tribes or races were then dispersed by the defeat of Assyria, first by the Babylonians and then by the Medo-Persians, over the Caucasus mountains into eastern and western Europe and England.
From there some migrated westward into America and Canada, and south into parts of southern Africa and Australia.
These are the regions of the world where most of the descendants of the twelve tribes of ancient Yasrael are to be found today.
A Surprising Major Mistaken/Mythological Heritage
Other races, such as a tartar-like mixed hybrid race known as the Khazars, existing until the middle ages in the Asia Minor area between east and west, betwixt Asia and the Occidental worlds, a people who maintained their separate and distinct racial/racist existence by "converting" to a religion that held a semblance of power, influence and control in both directions.
These became the major progenitors of what are currently called the Jewish peoples and religions (Hassidic, Orthodox and secular).
Taking the names of Yasraelite tribes and, even today knowingly, falsely claiming racial descent from Abraham, most of these pretenders to racial and religious "purity" of a "master race" (of which Hitler was one, believe it or not), continue to plague the world with wars, instability, monetary confusion and chaos, mostly in the name of usurious profit, but with a view toward one day eradicating or enslaving every other race on earth.
To them "goyim" or "gentiles" are like the cattle the words imply, suitable only for slaughter and taking from them everything they value, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property).
Sadly, those who claim to oppose these professing "Jews" today, the white supremacists, follow in their racist ways and teachings, as a direct result of infiltration and deliberate religious sabotage, because they also have come the closest to teaching the truth about the true descendants of Yasrael.
Where they miss the boat entirely is in their racist religious teachings and doctrines that tend to exclude all races other than white, European Anglo Saxons, from the blessings of salvation, in the mistaken belief that all other than those descended through the Yasraelite race are doomed to destruction, as the alleged seed or offspring of a demonic-angelic/alien being known as the adversary or satan, planted here on earth to supplant the "chosen" white or so-called "Adamic" race.
There is some truth in angelic/alien cross-breeding with human women, such as alien abductions and impregnations, which produced a race of actual giants before and even after the flood; an evil that is once again taking place in this modern age -- albeit this is not restricted to any particular race, and is doubtless endemic to all races on earth today, as horror stories of such abductions continue to surface in various countries of the world, including among the white races of Europe and the Americas.
And these white racists certainly have many semi-truths that appear to bolster their claims, from false but seemingly plausible "sacred" calendar and "sabbath" interpretations, various but different "sacred name" reconstructions, to historical and scriptural translations that purport to restore the inspired and original intent and meaning of "the Bible" (so-called).
One of these is the interpretation of the commandment against adultery. Which is one they come closest to correctly understanding, albeit with their own uniquely racist twists and misconstrued false religious misinterpretations.
This has all been made possible by an evident, and equally racist, deliberate attempt to conceal the true meaning of this pivotal commandment by secular and "mainstream" religious scholars alike.
Etymological Origins
Let's look at the history, etymology and real meaning behind the word adultery to learn what lies hidden beneath its misunderstood veneer, and pretense of supposed understanding, what is actually an ill defined and confused translation into modern times of this ancient scriptural prohibition.
To the superficial surface skimmer of mostly modern texts and references, the word adultery means simply "voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person other than his or her spouse" (as defined by a modern common dictionary, such as Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder dictionary and thesaurus).
This is how most would define the original meaning and intent of the scriptural word adultery, as found in the ten commandments in the scriptural verses of Exodus 20:14 and Deuteronomy 5:18.
However this belies the scriptural fact that coveting a neighbor's wife is elsewhere prohibited, as in the tenth commandment (Exodus 20:17, Deuteronomy 5:21), and in the prohibition against fornication -- a form of prostitution (both male and female varieties, usually through temples of pagan religious worship and idolatry) that is prohibited in Exodus 34:15-16 -- and forbidden sexual relations as outlined In the 18th chapter of Leviticus.
So what, specifically, is the inspired meaning of adultery, if it is not what most now assume?
The key to unlocking this ancient mystery is locked in plain sight within the word itself.
The Ibreyan (ancient, original "Hebrew") word na'aph (Strong's Exhaustive Concordance "Hebrew" Dictionary listing #'s 5003, 5004, and 5005) is "defined" in that reference as having been variously translated (in the King James English Bible) as: "to commit adultery; fig. to apostatize: --adulterer (-ess), commit (ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock" (5003, na'aph).
Similarly, the Greek word used to translate this same concept in the New Testament, moichao, moichos, or moicheia (#'s 3429, 3430, 3431 and 3432), is similarly defined/translated as: "to commit adultery" and: "a (male) paramour; fig. apostate: -- adulterer" (Strong's Greek Dictionary of the New Testament).
The terms "apostatize" and "apostate" bear an interesting correlation to the true and inspired meaning for this word and concept, for it also embraced primarily the concept of false religious and idolatrous worship of foreign "mighty ones" and idols.
All of which begs the question concerning the exact meaning of the English word adultery, and how it relates to this ancient religious concept this English word is used to define.
Deviously Deceptive Scholarship
So, what is the specific English origin, derivation and etymology of the word adultery?
This is where secular and religious scholarship become a bit devious in their apparent attempt to conceal the hidden meaning behind this word and the original truth it now masks.
Some might falsely assume this word has something in common with the word adult. Not so.
That word derives from the Latin ad, meaning "to," and "olescere, inceptive form related to alere, to nourish" in the form "adultus, grown up; pp. of ad-olescere" (A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, by Walter W. Skeat, a former minister and professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge; 1882, 1963 edition).
Instead, the word adultery derives from the Latin adulter or adulterium (op.cit.).
However, rather than exploring or explaining the true and original intent of this word in English form, which is adulterer, all English dictionaries follow the current legal definition of adultery as:
"Voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender's husband or wife" (Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition 1951), citing "Roman and Jewish law, this crime is committed only when the woman is married to a third person; the unlawful commerce of a married man with an unmarried woman not being of the grade of adultery.... In other jurisdictions, both parties are guilty of adultery, even though only one of them is married.... In some jurisdictions, also, a distinction is made between double and single adultery, the former being committed where both parties are married to other persons, the latter where one only is so married" (op.cit.).
So-called "open and notorious adultery" is further defined as: "...living in open and notorious adultery, the parties must reside together publicly in the face of society, as if conjugal relations existed between them, and their so living and the fact that they are not husband and wife must be known in the community" (op. cit.).
Of course this begs the question of just what conjugal, or married, actually means, legally and historically.
Conjugal derives from the Latin words for "yoke" and "together" while matrimony comes from the Latin word meaning "motherhood," and marriage or its root, marry, comes from maritus, meaning "a husband" (ibid.; Skeat's), a word that comes from the Scandinavian language hus-bonde, meaning "to dwell in a house," which is related to the origin of the word husbandry (ibid.; Skeat's).
None of which excludes any man and woman from living together in common law marriage, except where so prohibited by first ecclesiastical and later secular courts, often based upon false or heretical religious misinterpretations of scriptural law.
A Closer Look...
Still, none of this explains the true meaning and origin of the word adultery, which is bound up in the meaning of the word adulterer.
Only there, in various modern dictionaries, from legal to common everyday variety, will you find a hint of the true meaning underlying the English word adultery: "a person who commits adultery. [obs. adulter (v.)...f[rom]. L[atin]. adulterare: see ADULTERATE]" (ibid., Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder).
Only under the word adulterate do we come face-to-face with the stark reality of what the English word adultery really signifies: "debase (esp. foods) by adding other or inferior substances. adj.... spurious; debased; counterfeit" (ibid.).
In Black's Law Dictionary the legal definition of adulter coincides with the etymology of this word: "One who corrupts; one who seduces another man's wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter" (op. cit.).
Even here the common misconception of the scriptural prohibition against adultery is found inserted into the otherwise evident meaning of debasing, counterfeiting or corrupting.
What does this have to do with the old Roman civil law known as adultera, "an adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery" (ibid.), if anything?
Adultery has far more in common with the term adulteration: "The act of corrupting or debasing; the act of mixing something impure or spurious with something pure or genuine, or an inferior article with a superior one of the same kind.... The term is generally applied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior quality, and usually of a more or less deleterious quality...." (ibid.).
This is similar to the scriptural prohibitions against mating two kinds of animal, mixing seeds when sowing, or combining different types of materials in clothing (see: Leviticus 19:19).
Actual Adultery
What does all of this have to do with adultery through marriage?
The books of Ezra and Nehemiah begin to reveal the true and intended meaning of the concept of adultery, as it was known and obeyed in ancient times, by those to whom this commandment was originally revealed.
In Ezra 9 and 10, and Nehemiah 13:23-30, the Yasraelites were called upon to repent of and purge from among themselves foreign wives and their children, who spoke foreign languages and adhered to foreign, pagan religious practices unrepentantly.
These were specifically marriages with races with which the Yasraelites were commanded against cohabiting, whose descendants were under a curse of eventual annihilation, due to their unrepentant and thoroughly evil religious practices (such as sacrificing their children in fiery rituals to pagan idols, like Moloch).
Thus the word adultery is similar to the meaning and intent of the original word fornication, in the same exact vein and with similar significance.
The two concepts are, in fact, practically one and the same.
Adultery had less to do with the sexual union itself as it did with prohibited religious/pagan worship of idols and false "mighty ones" (which originated with the fallen angels/aliens, who interbred with humanity to produce races of giants and other hybrid species, leading to much violence and the near annihilation of all humanity, other than a few unpolluted descendants of Adam; as outlined in Genesis 6:1-8 and elsewhere.
The descendants of Adam include peoples of every race on earth today, other than those who are, once again, the product of genetic interbreeding between alien and human species, which is analogous to men and women interbreeding with beasts or animals (bestiality; prohibited in Leviticus 18:23; which is one of the practices engaged in by certain foreigners, with whom marriages were prohibited, verses 24-29).
Foreigners were permitted to live among the Yasraelites, so long as they likewise eschewed and avoided these evil practices (verse 26), which adulterate, pollute and attempt to counterfeit the blessings promised through Adam to all of his legitimate descendants and heirs, specifically through the lineage of Abraham, but inclusive of all races (other than those few slated for eventual eradication, for instance, such as the Canaanites; Zachariah 14:21).
These blessings, however, extend to all other races who will adopt and adhere to these same Laws and Commandments, revealed through Moses to the Yasraelites, and all the foreigners or racial aliens who left Egypt with them (Exodus 12:38; the "mixed multitude" of the KJV, or "many other people" in the NIV).
Polygamy, Polygyny Or Polyandry?
Contrary to misinterpretations by the racist white supremacist factions, the commandment against adultery does not specifically prohibit all intermarriage with foreign races other than those of the same (presumably white) racial stock, although this can certainly seem to be the import of it in relation to the Yasraelite peoples.
Many of those tribes, in fact, resulted from just such marriages.
Rather, it actually prohibits all relations with unrepentant foreign religions and races that adhere unrepentantly to these often vile, violent, murderous and otherwise evil belief systems.
The commandment against adultery was not merely a rehash or rewording of other commandments against prohibited sexual relations, nor yet the traditional ecclesiastical/secular legal prohibition of marriages with already married men or women (the former not having any basis in original inspired scriptural law, which embraced and never prohibited polygyny -- a man having more than one wife -- only polygamy, which means "many marriages," a legal term related to the word maritus, meaning specifically "many husbands" originally; ibid., Skeat's).
Like it or not, modern ideas of sexism aside, the term marriage originated in the old English common law concept of "'maritagium,' (q. v.,) or the feudal right enjoyed by the lord or guardian in chivalry of disposing of his ward in marriage" (Black's, ibid., "Marriage"), a purely male-dominated legal act.
Polygamy, as interpreted by most religious, legal and other secular "authorities," as misapplied to the practice of a man having more than one wife, is purely a misinterpretation and misapplication of the word to embrace a concept entirely foreign to its etymological origin.
Perhaps it is with some significance that the practice of true polygyny is not outlawed in fact, under the rubric of "polygamy," which despite current legal flaws (false laws, or human reasonings posing as legal precedents), is in fact solely synonymous with polyandry, or a woman having multiple husbands.
There is certainly no precedent in scriptural law to forbid or prohibit a man having more than one wife, just as there is no common law prohibition against this ancient practice. Only state sanctioned (created) "marriages" -- those created under state laws -- try to prohibit this otherwise scripturally permissible practice.
Which is not to say that polygyny is recommended or practical given the state of animosity against the practice in many modern nations. It is prophesied, however, to become the chief means for repopulating a future decimated earth, particularly for descendants of the true Yasraelites, in the near future (cf. "Isaiah" 4:1; their disgrace being bereft of children -- see chapter 3, verses 24-26 -- a scripture most Christian apologists would doubtless like to keep buried and forgotten).
The True Import Of Adultery
Marriage with women of foreign races ("captive women") was certainly allowed for specifically in Deuteronomy 21:10-14, so long as they obeyed the requirements of becoming truly subject to the Laws of Creator Yahveh.
This did not include those specifically named nations and races the Yasraelites were commanded to drive out of the land, or utterly destroy, and prohibited against marrying (cf. Deuteronomy 7:1-6).
The New Testament equivalent of this commandment is the prohibition against marrying outside the faith, thereby becoming one flesh, or unequally yoked, with carnality and all the evils that implies (see: II Corinthians 6:14-15), which once again has avoiding idolatry as its major focus (verses 16-18).
Some religious adherents today, particularly Christian fundamentalists, believe they are following this admonition perfectly, however that depends entirely on having the correct faith and foundation to begin with, which sadly almost all do not, beginning with "the only name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
Hint: It simply is not any of the names used in Christianity! Neither is it any of the many but flawed attempts to restore the Savior's true name by any of the so-called "sacred names" religionists; whose attempts in that direction -- though commendable -- are in error, as is most of their other flawed attempts to "obey" scriptural commandments.
The true import of adultery today is entirely lost on those who refuse to acknowledge their own pagan perversions and religious modes of worship that oppose and are a direct antithesis of both the Creator's Laws and Commandments and the examples of all those, in both "old" and "new" testaments, who obeyed these and taught others to do likewise.
Room For Understanding And Forgiveness
Many of the concepts commonly thought to be embraced by the word adultery are certainly elsewhere outlawed in scripture, such as the commandment against sleeping (or having sex) with another man's wife (Deuteronomy 22:22), including having consensual but non-marital sex with, or raping, an engaged or non-engaged virgin (verses 23-29).
A man who divorced a woman, who then became the wife of another man, was also prohibited from later taking her back as his wife once again, even if her second husband died (Deuteronomy 24:1-4).
The commandment against adultery is hardly redundant in meaning with all these other commands against sexual relations outside of a spiritually permitted union of male and female as husband and wife.
Adultery, in its true and inspired scriptural definition, is therefore partly the cohabiting with foreign wives whose beliefs, customs and practices are unrepentantly mired and cemented in pagan religious worship and rituals, thereby adulterating, polluting, or counterfeiting the next generation into a mockery of that intended for those who must remain obedient to every Law, Commandment and word of their Sovereign Creator Yahveh.
More than that adultery, in its fullest sense and inspired meaning, is the adulteration of the pure truth with any error, so as to dilute its meaning and inspired intent, leading to the corruption of heresy posing and taught as "truth," with the ultimate results of sin (violating the original and inspired intent of the Creator's commandments) and death!
Truthfully, it might well be that all the races that remain on earth, after all those unrepentant races and cultures are finally purged and eliminated by Creator Yahveh, will be blessed through some intermarriage with those of Yasraelite descent, but this is not entirely necessary for them to partake in the blessings of Yahveh's Kingdom.
Our Creator Yahveh is truly no respecter of persons. There is ample room in His plan of salvation for understanding and forgiveness, despite racial differences (of which He is the sole originator), so long as there is humility, openness to repentance and instruction in righteousness, including a willingness to live together with all like-minded races in the true spirit of brotherhood, as co-heirs with our Savior in the family of man.
Those who teach, believe or live prejudiced (adulterated) religious doctrines of supposed racial "purity" of any particular ethnicity or specific racial stock are, in fact, thereby proving their inferiority compared with all who embrace the pure truth concerning the true meaning of adultery.