Thank you very much for chapter and verse.
What do you make of the meaning of these Old Testament verses?
My thoughts are complex, and not fully formalized (i.e. a constant search). But, in a short way, you have to either accept that much of the OT was the world of an earlier age, with rules and ways of acting for a more primitive people, and that they don't apply to us and/or 2. It's mostly allegory. That is, Moses didn't actually do some of these things. He led armies, and the oral story passed down generation after generation has become highly distorted and/or exaggerated.