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Numbers 5
Separation of the Unclean
5:1 1Then the LORD spoke to Moses: 5:2 “Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse. 5:3 You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that 6 they will not defile their camps, among which I live.” 5:4 So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the LORD had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

2007-12-28 20:06:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Read the rest of the laws about quarantine - length of time, re-examination of lepers and coming back into the community, purification rituals and the health reasons behind it all - and stop misrepresenting God.

2007-12-28 20:15:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

There is a side to the verse that is missed, I think. God had to TELL the people to expel the infected from their midst, that could mean that they were NOT expelling them, they were trying to take care of the sick, and putting themselves in danger. Just a thought, I mean, I wasn't there at the time or anything, but its possible.

Short of dropping antibiotic syringes out of the sky, what else to do?

2007-12-29 04:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Epitome O 3 · 0 0

Very true. The lord is in the world at the very harshest and darkest times, and thus all we hear and know is of his battles with the evil and evildoers. So yes whilst here the social cleansing and destruction post seperation of sinners is greatly scripted.

The casting out of sin from the body, and sinners from ones society, by each individual is essential for each to have gained that strength and will to do so and actively contributed to the very act. Noah, Soddom and Gomorrah, are the main remembered..

2007-12-29 04:15:43 · answer #3 · answered by VAndors Excelsior™ (Jeeti Johal Bhuller)™ 7 · 0 0

Israelites who were in bondage in Egypt were freed by Moses and his brother Aaron.They were passing through the wilderness prior to their entry into the promised land.
From time to time God has been making revelations to prophet Moses to guide the Israeliites properly.
The above quotattion deals with"segregation of the diseased' from the healthy citizensto avoid the spread of it.
The terminology used is 'unembellished' does not mean it is "bad"!

2008-01-01 20:13:56 · answer #4 · answered by The Tribune 5 · 0 0

Christian God could have told like that once upon a time .later the same God would have told something differently .Tomorrow He would say something else in accordance with the trend of their philosophy. How can the God be saying the same thing or speaking the same language from Childhood to adult hood.?

2007-12-29 12:18:50 · answer #5 · answered by Infinity 7 · 1 0

what is this OT, i cant understand.

2007-12-29 04:11:38 · answer #6 · answered by chidambaram k 6 · 0 1

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