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Related: About this forumCure for Leprosy
just ran across this in my cache of Bible science. In case you need the cure for Leprosy:
Leviticus 14 (KJV)
"4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and..."
And unfortunately there's more
Alternatively, you could just take antibiotics.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)What is this formula if not a magical incantation or ritual.
defacto7
(13,610 posts)is all the washing. It could help the symptoms if it's not too bad of an infection and possibly help slow the spread. But then religion needs blood, killing, pain and rituals that make it seem more mystical and godly. And all that blood, killing, pain and ritual probably negate anything the cleanliness could have helped. Jees..
SCantiGOP
(14,247 posts)I did what the Bible said, and today I am leprosy free. Praise the Lord.
progressoid
(50,748 posts)Yeah. The new Testament too.