Reference: Medicine
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The physicians in Genesis 1 were Egyptian embalmers. Physic was often associated with superstition; this was Asa's fault, "he sought not unto Jehovah but to the physicians" (2Ch 16:12). Luke "the beloved physician" practiced at Antioch, the center between the schools of Cilicia (Tarsus) and Alexandria. Ecclesiastes (Ec 12:6) uses language which under the Spirit (whatever Solomon knew or did not know) expresses scientific truth: "the silver cord" is the spinal marrow, white and precious as silver, attached to the brain which is "the golden bowl." The "fountain" may mean the right ventricle of the heart, the "cistern" the left, the "pitcher" the veins, the "wheel" the aorta or great artery. The "wheel"' however may mean life in its rapid motion, as Jas 3:6, "the wheel of nature." The circulation of the blood is apparently expressed.
The washing's, the restriction in diet to clean animals and the prohibition of pork, the separation of lepers, the laws of marriage and married intercourse (Leviticus 15), the cleanliness of the camp (De 23:12-14), and the comprehension of all varieties of healthful climate in Palestine, account for Israel's general exemption from epidemics and remarkable healthiness. The healing art in the Old Testament seems mainly to consist in external applications for wounds, etc. balm abounded in Gilead, and therefore many physicians settled there. Jer 8:22, "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health (lengthening out) of the daughter of my people gone up (Hebrew)?" i.e., why is not the long bandage applied? or why is not the health come up again, as skin coming up over a wound in healing? (See BALM.)
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Set up a toilet area outside the camp and go out there. Keep a spade among your tools. When you sit down outside use the spade to dig and cover up your excrement. read more. Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp. He is there to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
When the silver cord is snapped apart, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).
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Palestine was probably a comparatively healthy country in Bible times, as it is now. Its natural features in most localities would protect it from the usual endemic diseases of Oriental lands, and its want of harbours would to a great extent prevent the importation of epidemics (contrast the reputation of Egypt, as attested by De 7:15; 28:50; Am 4:10); moreover, the legislation of the Priestly Code, if it was ever observed, would have operated to prevent the spread of disease, and the existence of far-reaching destitution. These provisions, and the common occurrence of external and internal warfare, must also have tended to eliminate overcrowding as a cause of disease; but the ratio of population to area in ancient times is very difficult to estimate; the figures in 1Ch 21:5 and 2Sa 4:9 are clearly untrustworthy.
1. Jews believed in a definite connexion between health and virtue (cf. Isa 58:8; Jer 8:15,22). Disease was popularly regarded as penal (Joh 9:2), and as sent by God either directly (Ex 4:11; De 32:39) or permissively by means of others (Job 2:7; Mr 9:17,25). It might also be caused by human envy (Job 5:2), or by bodily excess (Sir 37:30-31), but even so its vera causa was God's direct authorization.
Under these circumstances healing was treated as a token of Divine forgiveness (Ex 15:26). And the connexion of priest with physician was correspondingly close. On the whole, the medical knowledge of the Bible peoples was very defective; nor are there any traces of medical education in Palestine. Jacob was embalmed by Egyptian physicians (Ge 50:2), but there must probably have been some Jewish practitioners at the time when Ex 21:19 was compiled. The word in Jer 8:22 means a 'bandager.' The writer of 2Ch 16:12 seems to take the extreme view that it was a sin to consult physicians, but saner ideas are represented in Sir 38:2. Still, it may be doubted whether medical duties were not usually performed by priests (as in early Egypt), at any rate in the earlier OT times; certainly the priests had the supervision in the case of certain diseases, e.g. leprosy; and prophets also were applied to for medical advice (cf. 1Ki 14:2; 17:18; 2Ki 4:22; 20:7). And even in Sir 38:14 the physician is regarded as having certain priestly duties, and the connexion between religion and medicine is seen in the counsel, given in that same chapter, that repentance and an offering shall precede the visit of the physician. In the NT we have St. Luke described as a physician (Col 4:14), and a somewhat depreciatory remark on physicians in Mt 5:26, which, however, is much toned down in Lu 8:43.
It is therefore probable that up till late times medicine was in the charge of the priests, whose knowledge must have been largely traditional and empirical. The sacrificial ritual would give them some knowledge of animal morphology, but human anatomy can scarcely have existed as a science at all, since up to about a.d. 100 the ceremonial objections to touching or dissecting the dead prevailed. Thus Bible references to facts of anatomy and physiology are very few in number. Blood was tabooed as food (Ge 9:4; Le 17:11)
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Jehovah God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.
Jehovah had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech's household to have children because of Abraham's wife Sarah.
Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him.
She was going to have twins. Before they were born they struggled against each other in her womb. She said: Why should something like this happen to me? She asked Jehovah for an answer.
Isaac was old and going blind. He called his older son Esau and said to him: Son! Esau answered: Here I am.
Leah had soft eyes and Rachel was shapely and very beautiful.
Jacob became angry with Rachel. He said: I cannot take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children. She said: Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her.
Jacob came in from the fields that evening. Leah went out to meet him. You are to sleep with me, she said. You are my reward for my son's mandrake plants. So he went to bed with her that night.
Rachel said to her father: Do not be angry, Father, but I cannot get up to greet you. I am having my period. So even though Laban had made a thorough search, he did not find the idols.
The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his thigh.
So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings. He buried them under the oak (big) tree near Shechem.
When one of her pains hit, the midwife said: Do not be afraid. You have another son! Rachel was dying! With her last breath she named her son Ben-oni (Son of My Sorrow), but his father named him Benjamin (Son of My Right Hand).
As they sat down to eat, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying the materials for cosmetics, medicine, and embalming. They were on their way to take them to Egypt.
When he drew back his hand, his brother came out. She said: So this is how you have broken out! He was named Perez.
Their father Israel said: If that is the way it has to be, then take the man a gift. Put some of the best products of the land in your bags. Take a little balm, a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
they told their father that Joseph was still alive and was the ruler of Egypt. But their father was so surprised that he could not believe them.
Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.
We must outsmart them or they will increase in number. If war breaks out they will leave the country and join our enemies to fight against us.
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives. Shiphrah and Puah were among them.
Moses said: O Jehovah I am not a man of words. I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant. Talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue. Jehovah said to him: Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?
Jehovah said to him: Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?
Jehovah said to Moses: Tell Aaron, Strike the ground with your stick. The dust will change into gnats in all of Egypt.'
They will spread out like fine dust over all the land of Egypt. They will produce boils that become open sores on the people and the animals. They got some ashes and stood before the king. Moses threw them into the air. They produced boils that became open sores on the people and the animals.
There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. No leavened bread shall be seen with you or in all your borders.
He said: If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.
If she does not please the master who has chosen her as a wife, he must let her be bought back by one of her close relatives. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has treated her unfairly.
If the injured man is able to stand up again and walk around outside with a cane, the one who hit him must not be punished. He must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and for all his medical expenses.
and make sacred anointing oil, mixed like perfume. This is for dedicating the tent and chest, read more. the table with its equipment, the lamp stand with its equipment, the incense altar with all its utensils, the altar for sacrifices, and the large bowl with its stand. You will make them so holy that anyone who even touches them will become holy when you dedicate them this way. Sprinkle Aaron and his sons with this oil when you ordain them as my priests. Say this to the people of Israel: 'This oil must always be used in the ordination service of a priest. It is holy because it is dedicated to Jehovah. So treat it as holy! Do not use it for everyday purposes or mix any for yourselves. If you do, you will no longer belong to Jehovah's people.' Jehovah said to Moses: Take one part fragrant spices and two kinds of gum resin and aromatic mollusk shells, and mix them with one part pure frankincense. Have a perfumer make it into fragrant incense, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
A perfumer made the holy oil to be used for anointing and for the pure, sweet incense.
Tell the Israelites: 'When a woman gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days. This is the same number of days she is unclean for her monthly period.
If the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin around it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest will isolate you for seven days.
the priest will examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease. He will declare you unclean.
the priest shall examine you. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin. You are ritually clean. Loss of hair makes one bald not unclean. read more. Hair losses from the forehead or the back of the head do not make one unclean. If a reddish-white sore appears on the bald spot, it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will examine you. If there is a reddish-white sore,
Tell the Israelites: 'When a man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. He is unclean because of the discharge from his body. Whether it is chronic or not makes no difference. He is still unclean. read more. The man who has a discharge makes everything he lies on or sits on unclean. Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Those who sit on anything he sat on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Those who touch a man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Should a man who has a discharge spit on anyone who is clean, the person he spits on must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. When a man who has a discharge sits on a saddle, it becomes unclean. Those who carry such things must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. If a man who has a discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands, the person he touched must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. When a man who has a discharge touches pottery, it must be broken. When he touches a wooden bucket it must be rinsed. When a man's discharge stops, he must wait seven days to be cleansed. He must wash his clothes and his body in fresh water. Then he will be clean. He must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and come into Jehovah's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting on the eighth day. He will give these birds to the priest. The priest will sacrifice one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. Thus in Jehovah's presence, the priest will pay compensation for the wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the man who had a discharge. If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening. Any clothes or any leather with semen on it must be washed. It will be unclean until evening. When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening. When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening.
When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening. Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean. read more. Those who touch her bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Those who touch anything she sits on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. If her blood touches anything on the bed or anything she sits on, it will be unclean until evening. If a man has sexual intercourse with her while she has her period, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will become unclean. When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days other than her monthly period, she is unclean. If her period lasts longer than usual, she will be unclean as long as she has a discharge. It is similar to her period.
This is because life of every living thing is in the blood. I have given this blood to you to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me on the altar. Blood is needed to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me.'
Do not curse a deaf man. Do not place a stumbling block before the blind. You must deeply respect your God. I am Jehovah.
Do not curse a deaf man. Do not place a stumbling block before the blind. You must deeply respect your God. I am Jehovah.
Obey my laws. Never crossbreed different kinds of animals. Do not plant two kinds of crops in your field. Never wear clothes made from two kinds of material.
When you come into the land and plant all kinds of fruit trees, you must not eat the fruit for the first three years. All the fruit will be a holy offering of praise to Jehovah in the fourth year. read more. You may eat the fruit in the fifth year. Do this to make the trees produce more for you. I am Jehovah your God.
Tell Aaron: 'If any of your descendants, now or in future generations, has a physical defect, he must never bring food to offer to God. No one who has a physical defect may ever come near the altar. That means anyone who is blind or lame, who has a disfigured face, a deformity,
No one who has a physical defect may ever come near the altar. That means anyone who is blind or lame, who has a disfigured face, a deformity,
No one who has a physical defect may ever come near the altar. That means anyone who is blind or lame, who has a disfigured face, a deformity,
No one who has a physical defect may ever come near the altar. That means anyone who is blind or lame, who has a disfigured face, a deformity,
who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.
who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.
who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.
who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.
who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.
Do not bring Jehovah an animal that is blind, has broken bones, cuts, warts, scabs, or ringworm. Never give Jehovah any of these in a sacrifice by fire on the altar.
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
While the meat was still in their mouths, before they had even had a chance to chew it, Jehovah became angry with the people and struck them with a severe plague.
They died because they had returned and made the whole community complain about Moses. They spread lies about the land.
Moses said to Aaron: Take your incense burner, put burning coals from the altar and incense in it, and go quickly into the congregation to make peace with Jehovah for the people. Jehovah shows his anger! A plague has started.
Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.
Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
He uttered this prophecy: The message of Balaam son of Beor. These are the words of the man who can see clearly. The oracle of him who hears the words of God and who sees the vision of the Almighty. Falling down, yet having his eyes open.
Twenty-four thousand people died from that plague.
Jehovah will take away every sickness from you. He will not afflict you with any of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you have known. He will put them on all who hate you.
Do not eat leavened bread with it. Eat unleavened bread for seven days. It is the bread of affliction. You should remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt in haste.
When you build a new house make a parapet (wall) for your roof. This way you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.
Do not wear a material mixed with wool and linen together.
No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis is cut off shall enter the assembly of Jehovah.
If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission he must go outside the camp. He may not reenter the camp.
Cursed is the man who misleads a blind person on the road. And all the people answer: Amen.
Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils. From the sole of your foot to the crown of your head they will not heal.
Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils. From the sole of your foot to the crown of your head they will not heal.
a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
They have corrupted themselves; they are not His sons. They are a blemished, crooked and perverse generation.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand.
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.
When they were done circumcising all the people they stayed in the camp till they were healed.
Then Jael Heber's wife picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went to him while he was fast asleep and drove the peg into his temple and it went down into the ground. He was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
A woman threw a millstone down on his head and fractured his skull.
The woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and Jehovah blessed him.
So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel. She explained: I asked Jehovah for him.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for food. The hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven. She who has had many sons has languished.
Eli was lying down in his usual place. His eyes became dim and he could not see.
Eli's daughter-in-law the wife of Phinehas was pregnant. It was almost time for her baby to be born. When she heard that God's Ark of the Covenant was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she suddenly went into labor and gave birth.
Jehovah dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.
In the morning after the effects of the wine wore off his wife told him what had happened. Nabal had a stroke. He could not move.
David took the spear and the water jar from beside Saul's head. Then he and Abishai left. No one saw it or knew what happened. No one woke up. They were all sound asleep, because Jehovah sent a heavy sleep on them all.
Saul's son Jonathan had a son who was crippled. When the boy was five years old, the news about the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled to Gittaim. She was in a hurry when she left. He fell from her arms and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.
At once Jehovah God became angry with Uzzah. He killed him because of his irreverence. Uzzah died there beside the Ark of the Covenant.
Nathan went home. Jehovah struck the child that Uriah's wife had given birth to David. The child became sick.
Mephibosheth grandson of Saul also came to meet David. He missed David so much that he did not take a bath or trim his beard or wash his clothes the whole time David was gone.
There was another war, this time in Gath. One of the enemy soldiers was a descendant of the Rephaim. He was as big as a giant and had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
So Jehovah sent a plague among the Israelites from that morning until the time he had chosen. Of the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand died. When the angel stretched out his arm to destroy Jerusalem, Jehovah changed his mind about the disaster. Enough! He said to the angel who was destroying the people. Put down your weapon. The angel of Jehovah was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
His servants said to him: Your Majesty let us find a young woman to stay with you and take care of you. She will lie close to you and keep you warm.
Tahpenes' sister had a son named Genubath. Tahpenes presented the boy to Pharaoh in the palace, and Genubath lived in the palace among Pharaoh's children.
King Jeroboam heard this. He pointed his outstretched hand at him and ordered: Seize that man! At once the king's arm became paralyzed so that he could not pull it back.
King Jeroboam's son Abijah became sick. Jeroboam said to his wife: Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you, and go to Shiloh. That is where the prophet Ahijah lives. He is the one who said I would be king of Israel.
She went to Ahijah's home in Shiloh. Old age had made Ahijah blind.
The rest of the events of Asa's reign, the extent of his power and the names of the cities he built are all recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. His feet became diseased, as he grew old.
After this the son of the woman of the house became ill. He was so ill that there was no breath in him.
After this the son of the woman of the house became ill. He was so ill that there was no breath in him. She said to Elijah: What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?
Stretching himself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to Jehovah. He said: O Jehovah my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.
Then Ahab called a court official and told him to get Micaiah at once.
King Ahaziah of Israel fell off the balcony on the roof of his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. He sent some messengers and said to them: Go to consult Baalzebub, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, to find out whether or not I will recover from this.
Let us build a small room on the roof, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. He can stay there when he visits us.
Just as Elisha said, about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.
Elisha sent a servant to tell him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan River. He would then be completely cured of his disease.
The Syrians attacked! Elisha prayed, O Jehovah, strike these men blind! Jehovah answered his prayer and struck them blind.
Elisha went to Damascus when King Benhadad of Syria was sick. The king was told that Elisha was there.
Elisha became ill with the disease that caused his death. Jehoash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!
It happened that night. Jehovah's angel killed one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers in the Assyrian camp. The next morning the Judeans saw all the corpses.
He reported to King David the total number of men capable of military service. There were one million one hundred thousand in Israel and four hundred seventy thousand in Judah.
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
After this happened; Jehovah struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease. Two years later Jehoram died in terrible pain. No bonfire was built to honor him. The people had done this for his ancestors, but not him.
The Arameans withdrew. They left him suffering from many wounds. His own officials plotted against him for murdering the son of the priest Jehoiada. They killed Joash in his bed and buried him in the City of David. But they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.
Satan left Jehovah's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
Satan left Jehovah's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
Job's three friends heard about all the terrible things that happened to him. Each of them came from his home: Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, and Zophar of Naama. They agreed they would go together to sympathize with Job and comfort him.
To be sure anger kills a stubborn fool. And jealousy murders a gullible person.
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
My skin is clothed with worms and scabs. My flesh breaks open filled with pus.
then you will lift up your face without shame. You will stand firm without fear.
I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
I am repulsive to my wife and my children think I stink.
yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him. He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up.
I am seething within and cannot relax! Days of affliction confront me.
Let the evil of the wicked come to an end. Establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.
My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity.
With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
I am pleased to do your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart.
A wicked thing is poured out upon him, that when he lies down, he will not rise up again.
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Then I thought: I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
He is the one who will rescue you from the bird hunter's trap (fowler's snare) and from deadly plagues.
plagues that roam the dark, epidemics that strike at noon.
Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes. All food was disgusting to them, and they came near death's gates.
He makes a childless woman a joyful mother. Praise Jehovah!
The sun will not strike you by day. The moon will not strike you by night.
The sun will not strike you by day. The moon will not strike you by night.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my embryo and all were written in your book; the days ordained for me. Even this before one had taken place.
If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead.
You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed. You say: How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof. read more. I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors! I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation. Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well. Should your waters overflow in the streets, like streams of water in public places? Let them be yours alone. Do not share with strangers. Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth. She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love. Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths. His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.
Till a dart strikes through his liver. The bird hurries to the snare without knowing it would cost his life.
Till a dart strikes through his liver. The bird hurries to the snare without knowing it would cost his life.
She has wounded many. Many strong men have been slain by her.
A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).
The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness. So who can tolerate a wounded spirit?
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
The leach has two daughters. Each cry: Give, Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, yes; even four things never say: It is enough!
Dead flies cause the perfumer's oil to smell. A little foolishness does the same for the one with a reputation for wisdom and honor.
You do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. Even so you do not know the works of God who creates all.
Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.
You are all fair, my love. There is no spot in you.
Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is sick.
Jehovah will cause sores to appear on the heads of the women of Zion. Jehovah will make their foreheads bare.
hats, ankle bracelets, blouses, perfume boxes, charms,
Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.
I am here with the children Jehovah has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from Jehovah of Hosts, who lives on Mount Zion.
Your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea. Yet only a remnant within them will return. Overwhelming and righteous destruction has been decreed.
The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra. The weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
The rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.
That is why my heart mourns for Moab like a harp. I mourn for Kir Hareseth.
Jehovah has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
With stammering lips and another tongue he will speak to this people.
Do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts that destruction is determined (decreed) upon the whole earth.
Write this on a tablet for them, and inscribe it in a book so that it will be there in the future as a permanent witness.
They will not be impatient any longer, but they will act with understanding and will pay attention to the needs of the people.
You will see those arrogant people no more, those people of an obscure speech, with their strange, incomprehensible tongue.
King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: Jehovah tells you: 'You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.'
Isaiah said: Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.
Isaiah said: Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.
They will never be hungry or thirsty. The sun and the burning hot wind will not strike them. The one who has compassion on them will lead them and guide them to springs.
For Jehovah says: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me. They hold fast to my covenant.
Your light will break out like the dawn. Your recovery will speedily spring forth. Your righteousness will go before you and the glory of Jehovah will be your rear guard.
They hatch viper eggs and weave spider webs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.
If you wash with detergent and use a lot of soap, I would still see the stains from your wickedness, says the Lord Jehovah.
I said, Lord Jehovah, you have greatly deceived these people and Jerusalem. You said that everything would go well for them, but a sword is held at their throats (threatens their lives).
We waited for peace, but no good came. We waited for a time of healing, but all we got was terror!
I am sending serpents against you, adders, for which there is no charm. They will bite you, says Jehovah.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
O Jehovah of Hosts, you are a fair judge. You test motives and thoughts. I want to see you take revenge on them. For that reason I presented my case to you.
You plant them, and they take root. They grow and bear fruit. You are near their lips, but far from their mind.
He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence. He who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live. He will have his own life as booty.'
This was after King Jehoiakin and his mother, the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and metal workers left Jerusalem.
I will hand over the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the palace officials, the priests, and all the common people who passed between the pieces of the calf.
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.
Then Kareah's son Johanan and all the army commanders who were with him brought back the rest of the people of Mizpah whom he had rescued from Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam. Johanan brought back men, women, children, soldiers, and commanders from Gibeon.
All the people who are determined to go and live in Egypt will die either in war or of starvation or disease. Not one of them will survive, not one will escape the disaster that I am going to bring on them.'
Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results and cannot be cured.
Babylon has suddenly fallen and is destroyed! Mourn over it! Get medicine for its wounds, and maybe it can be healed.
My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
'Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep. You will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another.
Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded with the wheat of Minnith. Cakes, honey, oil and balm were paid for your merchandise.
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.
Son of man, say to the house of Israel: 'You people have said: Our transgressions and our sins are upon us. We are rotting away in them. How can we survive?'
These were young people who had no defects. They were good looking and intelligent, with knowledge. They showed wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of science. They had ability to serve in the king's court and were taught the language and literature of the Chaldeans.
There is a God in heaven that reveals secrets. He made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in days to come. Your dream and visions are these:
I saw a dream that made me afraid. When I saw this vision my thoughts troubled me.
Daniel had a dream and visions. He wrote the summery of the dream that came to his mind while he was in bed. It was the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon.
I, Daniel, fainted from exhaustion, and was sick for days. Then I rose up, and did the king's business. I wondered about the vision, but none understood it.
When he spoke these words to me I looked to the ground and was unable to speak.
Give them, O Jehovah what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
I sent a plague among you just as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses. I made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils and yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.
When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live!
Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! The sword will be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm will be withered and dried up, and his right eye will be blind.
The plague will be that Jehovah will strike all the peoples that have gone to war against Jerusalem! Their flesh will wither away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes will wither away in their sockets, and their tongue will wither away in their mouth.
He saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism. You offspring of vipers, he said, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
News about him spread throughout the country of Syria. People sick and suffering from diseases, people with demons, epileptics and paralytics, came to him. Jesus healed them all.
News about him spread throughout the country of Syria. People sick and suffering from diseases, people with demons, epileptics and paralytics, came to him. Jesus healed them all.
Take it from me; you will stay in jail until you pay the very last penny of your fine.
He said: Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home and terribly tormented.
Suddenly a storm blew in and the boat was covered with waves. Jesus was asleep.
When he heard it, he said: People who are well do not have need of a physician. The sick do.
A woman who had a hemorrhage (chronic flow of blood) for twelve years came behind him. She touched the border of his garment.
Next, a dumb man possessed with a demon was brought to him.
There he saw a man who had a withered hand. They asked him if it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? They wanted to accuse him.
Someone possessed with a demon, blind and dumb was brought to him. He healed him and the dumb man spoke and could see.
You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Lord, have mercy on my son. He has mental problems and is in great pain. He frequently falls into the fire and into the water.
For there are men who, from birth, were without sex. There are some who were made that way by men. There are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this let him accept it.
The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.
You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)
I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.'
They gave him vinegar (bitter wine) to drink mixed with poison (a drug) (gall). When he tasted it he would not drink. (Psalm 69:21)
Suddenly, one of them ran, took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.
He entered the Synagogue again. There was a man there whose hand was withered.
She suffered treatment from many physicians but did not become better. She spent all her money and grew worse.
They brought a deaf man with an impediment in his speech to him and asked him to lay his hands on him.
They arrived at Bethsaida. A blind man was brought to him with the request to touch him.
One of the people answered him: Teacher I brought my son who is unable to talk because of a spirit. The spirit seizes him and slams him down. He foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. I asked your disciples to cast it out but they could not do it.
When Jesus saw the people he ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him. He commanded the spirit that caused the loss of voice and hearing to leave and never return to him.
When Jesus saw the people he ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him. He commanded the spirit that caused the loss of voice and hearing to leave and never return to him.
They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it.
They filled a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink. Then they said let him be. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.
They will pick up and handle serpents. Deadly drink will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
When he came out he could not speak to them. They realized he saw a vision in the temple. Instead of talking he made signs to them.
His father Zechariah was filled with Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
He told the crowds that came to be baptized by him: You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.
Then he said: You will no doubt say this proverb to me, physician heal yourself. That which we heard was done at Capernaum do also here in your own country.
He left the synagogue and went to Simon's house. Simon's mother in law was suffering with a great fever. They asked him to help her.
He knew their thoughts. So he said to the man that had the withered hand: Stand up and come here. He arose and stepped forward.
There was a woman having an issue of blood twelve years. She spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any.
There was a woman having an issue of blood twelve years. She spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any.
Her life force returned and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given her to eat.
A man in the crowd cried, Teacher, please look at my son. He is my only child.
Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any way hurt you.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.
He cast out a demon from a dumb man. When the demon left the man he spoke and the crowds were astonished.
A woman had an evil spirit that kept her sick for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not stand straight.
He touched her and at once she stood straight up and praised God.
There was in his presence a man who had the dropsy (swollen arms and legs).
A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, used to be brought to the rich man's door.
(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
Pilate asked him: Are you King of the Jews? He answered him: You say it.
Jesus said: I that speak to you am he.
In these lay a great crowd of sick people, of blind and lame waiting for the water to bubble up.
The sick man replied: I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred. Others step down before I can go.
He saw a man who was blind from birth. His disciples asked him: Rabbi he was born blind. Who sinned, this man or his parents?
He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle. Then he anointed the eyes of the blind with the clay.
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived at Bethany where his sisters Mary and Martha lived.
A vessel full of vinegar was setting there. They put a sponge full of vinegar upon a hyssop branch and brought it to his mouth.
A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.
The young men arose, covered him up, and carried him out, and buried him. About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. read more. Peter said to her: Tell me whether you sold the land for such a price? And she said: Yes, we did. Then Peter said: How is it that you have agreed together to put Jehovah's Spirit to the test? Look, those who buried your husband are at the door to carry you out. Then she fell down at his feet and died. The young men came in, and found her dead. They carried her out to be buried by her husband.
He went and an Ethiopian eunuch (government official), a man of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship.
The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. Saul got up from the ground. Even though he opened his eyes, he saw nothing. They led him by the hand into Damascus.
Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he received sight. He got up and was baptized.
He found a man named Aeneas who lay in his bed for eight years. He was sick of the palsy.
She was sick, and died. They washed her body and laid her in an upper chamber.
Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.
Look Jehovah's hand is on you. You will be blind and not see the sun for a season. Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
A young man named Eutychus sat in the window. He was very sleepy. Paul's talk was long and he fell asleep. He fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.
Paul gathered an armful of sticks and put them on the fire. A snake came out on account of the heat and fastened itself to his hand.
His father was sick in bed. He suffered from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, prayed, placed his hands on him, and made him well.
We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Where then is your positive attitude? I bear you witness, that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Indeed he was sick and near to death. But God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the spiritual gift in you. It was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders. read more. Be diligent and think about these things. Give yourself wholly to them. That way your progress may be apparent to all. Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things. When you do this you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.
Do not drink water any longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your many infirmities.
Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.
Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.
I counsel you to buy gold from me, gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed. In this way the shame of your nakedness will not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
Morish
On the banks of the future river that will flow from the sanctuary, trees will grow, of which it is said, "The fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine." Eze 47:12. This agrees with Re 22:2. The prophet Jeremiah twice observes that when God brings His judgements upon a people, no medicine will cure them. Jer 30:13; 46:11. Pr 17:22 says, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine," or 'promoteth healing.'
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A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
No one argues that you should be healed. But no medicine will heal you.
Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results and cannot be cured.
All kinds of fruit trees will grow on both sides of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and they will not fail to produce fruit. Each month they will produce fresh fruit because this water flows from the Holy Place. The fruit will be good food, and the leaves will be used for healing.
This was in the middle of the street of the city. The tree of life was on each side of the river. It produced twelve kinds of fruit and yielded the fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Smith
Medicine.
Egypt was the earliest home of medical and other skill for the region of the Mediterranean basin, and every Egyptian mummy of the more expensive and elaborate sort involved a process of anatomy. Still we have no trace of any philosophical or rational system of Egyptian origin; still medicine in Egypt was a mere art or profession. Compared with the wild countries around them, however, the Egyptians must have seemed incalculably advanced. Representations of early Egyptian surgery apparently occur on some of the monuments of Beni-Hassan. Those who have assisted at the opening of a mummy have noticed that the teeth exhibited a dentistry not inferior in execution to the work of the best modern experts. This confirms the statement of Herodotus that every part of the body was studied by a distinct practitioner. The reputation of Egypt's practitioners in historical times was such that both Cyrus and Darius sent to that country for physicians or surgeons. Of midwifery we have a distinct notice,
and of women as its Practitioners, which fact may also be verified from the scriptures. The scrupulous attention paid to the dead was favorable to the health of the living. The practice of physic was not among the Jews a privilege of the priesthood. Any one might practice it, and this publicity must have kept it pure. Rank and honor are said to be the portion of the physician, and his office to be from the Lord. Ecclus. 38:1,3,12. To bring down the subject to the period of the New Testament, St. Luke, "the beloved physician," who practiced at Antioch whilst the body was his care, could hardly have failed to be convenient with all the leading opinions current down to his own time. Among special diseases named in the Old Testament is ophthalmia,
which is perhaps more common in Syria and Egypt than anywhere else in the world; especially in the fig season, the juice of the newly-ripe fruit having the power of giving it. It may occasion partial or total blindness.
The "burning boil,"
is merely marked by the notion of an effect resembling that of fire, like our "carbuncle." The diseases rendered "scab" and "scurvy" in
may be almost any skin disease. Some of these may be said to approach the type of leprosy. The "botch (shechin) of Egypt,"
De 28:27
is so vague a term as to yield a most uncertain sense. In
De 28:35
is mentioned a disease attacking the "knees and legs," consisting in a "sore botch which cannot be healed," but extended, in the sequel of the verse, from the "sole of the foot to the top of the head." The Elephantiasis gracorum is what now passes under the name of "leprosy;" the lepers, e.g., of the: huts near the Zion gate of modern Jerusalem are elephantissiacs. [LEPROSY] The disease of King Antiochus, 2 Macc. 9:5-10, etc., was that of a boil breeding worms. The case of the widow's son restored by Elisha,
See Leper, Leprosy
was probably one of sunstroke. The palsy meets us in the New Testament only, and in features too familiar to need special remark. palsy, gangrene and cancer were common in all the countries familiar to the scriptural writers, and neither differs from the modern disease of the same name. Mention is also made of the bites and stings of poisonous reptiles.
Among surgical instruments or pieces of apparatus the following only are alluded to in Scripture: A cutting instrument, supposed a "sharp stone,"
the "knife" of
The "awl" of
was probably a surgical instrument. The "roller to bind" of
was for a broken limb, and is still used. A scraper, for which the "potsherd" of Job was a substitute.
is a prescription in form. An occasional trace occurs of some chemical knowledge, e.g. the calcination of the gold by Moses,
the effect of "vinegar upon natron,"
; comp. Jere 2:22 The mention of "the apothecary,"
and of the merchant in "powders,"
shows that a distinct and important branch of trade was set up in these wares, in which, as at a modern druggist's, articles of luxury, etc., are combined with the remedies of sickness. Among the most favorite of external remedies has always been the bath. There were special occasions on which the bath was ceremonially enjoined. The Pharisees and Essenes aimed at scrupulous strictness in all such rules.
River-bathing was common but houses soon began to include a bathroom.
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Leah had soft eyes and Rachel was shapely and very beautiful.
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came with their families and with Jacob to Egypt:
Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and threw it at Moses' feet. She said: You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.
Take top quality spices: twelve pounds of liquid myrrh, six pounds of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six pounds of sweet-smelling cane, and twelve pounds of cassia, according to the official standard. Add one gallon of olive oil, read more. and make sacred anointing oil, mixed like perfume.
Have a perfumer make it into fragrant incense, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
He took the bull-calf that they had made, melted it, ground it into fine powder, and mixed it with water. Then he made the people of Israel drink it.
If it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean.
When a man's discharge stops, he must wait seven days to be cleansed. He must wash his clothes and his body in fresh water. Then he will be clean.
Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils. From the sole of your foot to the crown of your head they will not heal.
Jehovah said to Joshua: Make sharp knives, and circumcise the men of Israel.
Suddenly he cried out to his father: My head hurts! My head hurts! Carry the boy to his mother, the father said to a servant.
The Syrians attacked! Elisha prayed, O Jehovah, strike these men blind! Jehovah answered his prayer and struck them blind.
Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.
Like the man does not wear a coat in winter, or like vinegar on soda, so is he who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Dead flies cause the perfumer's oil to smell. A little foolishness does the same for the one with a reputation for wisdom and honor.
Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. His arm is not bandaged, so it cannot heal and be strong enough to hold a sword.
They questioned him: Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.
The Pharisees and the scribes asked: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders. Instead they eat their bread with defiled hands?
The Pharisee wondered about Jesus not bathing before dinner.