Is it Head Lice or Leprosy?
As I continue reading my soap opera - the Old Testament- I am in Leviticus. The Hebrews are wandering around in the desert, still complaining, arguing and so on. Probably much like my neighborhood today. Not much is going on, well except God smiting a couple of Aaron's sons who messed up the temple ritual.
I was struggling through the beginning but then I realized what I was reading was the equivalent of today's Merck Manual - a guide for diagnosis and treatment of the common ills of the time. The priests were the appointed "doctors".
If someone had a skin ailment they were to go to the priest. He would decide if they were "unclean" and needed to be isolated from the rest of the community. If they improved during this quarantine then they were to shave off all their hair, take a bath and wear clean clothes.
I imagine they dealt with some of the same hygiene issues we have today such as lice and fleas. I also imagine there wasn't a lot of bathing and clothes washing going on in the desert. This was a group about the size of the population of Washington DC.
There are sensible instructions for handling many of the common health issues we still have today. A woman is unclean after childbirth and must rest for 4 to six weeks.
Stained laundry that might me molded? A house with a mold problem? A discharge from a personal area? It is all in there.
So, again, get to the point old lady.
God knows and has always known the tiniest details of the lives we lead. He knows about our rashes, our childbirth, our housing problems and even our dirty laundry! He knows about the diseases we pass to each other and about our healthy (and unhealthy diets)
God loves us so much that he knows exactly how many Hershey Kisses we hid in the nightstand drawer. He wants you to be a chatter box with him. So talk to God frequently during your day. Thank him, praise him, or complain about cleaning the dirty toilet. He loves to hear from you. He is waiting.
I was struggling through the beginning but then I realized what I was reading was the equivalent of today's Merck Manual - a guide for diagnosis and treatment of the common ills of the time. The priests were the appointed "doctors".
If someone had a skin ailment they were to go to the priest. He would decide if they were "unclean" and needed to be isolated from the rest of the community. If they improved during this quarantine then they were to shave off all their hair, take a bath and wear clean clothes.
I imagine they dealt with some of the same hygiene issues we have today such as lice and fleas. I also imagine there wasn't a lot of bathing and clothes washing going on in the desert. This was a group about the size of the population of Washington DC.
There are sensible instructions for handling many of the common health issues we still have today. A woman is unclean after childbirth and must rest for 4 to six weeks.
Stained laundry that might me molded? A house with a mold problem? A discharge from a personal area? It is all in there.
So, again, get to the point old lady.
God knows and has always known the tiniest details of the lives we lead. He knows about our rashes, our childbirth, our housing problems and even our dirty laundry! He knows about the diseases we pass to each other and about our healthy (and unhealthy diets)
God loves us so much that he knows exactly how many Hershey Kisses we hid in the nightstand drawer. He wants you to be a chatter box with him. So talk to God frequently during your day. Thank him, praise him, or complain about cleaning the dirty toilet. He loves to hear from you. He is waiting.
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