Thankful 2

The Power of Thanksgiving

Old Testament Regulations for the control of leprosy

1 Sufferers are banned from society

Numbers 5:2 KJV 1900

2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

2 Sufferers are banned from religious services

Leviticus 22:4 KJV 1900

4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

3 Sufferers have to report to a priest when they are cured

Leviticus 14:1–3 KJV 1900

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: 3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;

SAMARITANS A group of people who believed they were the true descendants of Israel and keepers of the Torah. During the time of the New Testament, their chief religious site was Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans believed that the Jerusalem temple and priesthood were illegitimate.