In this chapter, the law is concerned with controlling and preventing outbreaks of infectious diseases, like staph infection. These laws are related to hygiene and are amazingly accurate by modern-medical standards and practices used in hospitals today.<\/p>\n
The term isolation<\/em> is a common term used today to describe what is done to a patient who has such an infection. Many types of infectious diseases, besides Staphylococcal infections, require the isolation of the patient. Isolation is done in many kinds of cases of encephalitis, as well as more deadly diseases like Ebola and HHF (human hemorrhagic fever). Almost all communicable infections in modern hospitals are handled by patient isolation, but this did not come into practice until 1847.<\/p>\n In April 1847, an Austrian physician, Dr. Ignal Semmelweis (ob\/gyn), noticed that healthy woman who were examined after doctors had done early morning autopsies, began to come down with the same diseases the autopsied patients had died of. He enacted new hospital rules that required surgeons to change clothes and wash after autopsies, and in between each patient, which is what we find God teaching the Hebrews to do in Leviticus 15. Not surprisingly, disease in Semmelweis\u2019 wards dropped like a rock; however, the status symbol for doctors of that day were their bloody lab coats, and the bloodier the lab coat the busier and more important the doctor. In spite of several published papers verifying Semmelweis\u2019 results, he was fired.<\/p>\n The long-term effects of the medical community not heeding Semmelweis\u2019 findings were far reaching. During the US civil war alone, hundreds perhaps even thousands of soldiers who were wounded in combat, later died of infection simply because the surgeons tending them weren\u2019t washing between patients.<\/p>\n The cleansing of a communicable disease, just like the cleansing from leprosy and sin, required a sacrifice. There was no substitute for the blood of a specific kind of sacrifice, and in the cleansing from sin, there is no substitute for the blood of Jesus. Without His shed blood applied to the sinner’s heart, there is no redemption. But because of His great mercy, He offers redemption to all who will humble themselves before Him and repent of their sins.<\/p>\n “Thank you, Lord, for the cleansing from sin that You give us today.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leviticus 15 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh,\u00a0because of\u00a0<\/em>his issue he\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>unclean.\u00a0\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>his uncleanness.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.\u00a0\u00a05<\/sup>And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And he that sitteth on\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth\u00a0any of\u00a0<\/em>those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:\u00a015<\/sup>And the priest shall offer them, the one\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a sin offering, and the other\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for his issue.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And if any man\u2019s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0The woman also with whom man shall lie\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>seed of copulation, they shall\u00a0both\u00a0<\/em>bathe\u00a0themselves\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even. 19<\/sup>\u00a0And if a woman have an issue,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.\u00a0\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And if it\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0her\u00a0<\/em>bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>unclean.\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe\u00a0himself\u00a0<\/em>in water, and be unclean until the even.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall offer the one\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a sin offering, and the other\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for the issue of her uncleanness.\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>among them.\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the law of him that hath an issue, and\u00a0of him\u00a0<\/em>whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this chapter, the law is concerned with controlling and preventing outbreaks of infectious diseases, like staph infection. 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