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Leviticus chapter 13 verses

45 and 46.

The leperous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out unclean unclean

He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease he is unclean he shall live alone his

dwelling shall be outside the camp.

These are extremely humbling verses, particularly when you put yourself in the shoes

of someone who has leprosy.

So to have this disease means that you wear torn clothes.

You don't cut your hair.

And anytime anyone comes near you you you cry out unclean unclean

as long as you have this disease you are considered unclean and you're told to live alone

outside the camp.

So to add, in a sense, insult to injury,

not only do you have this disease now

that's affecting your physical body but socially you are totally

isolated. Now there were reasons for this even health reasons for this in the

Book of Leviticus and we see the same thing in numbers but that doesn't

take away from the humbling saddening effects of leprosy in one's life or in somebody

you love now they are separated from the rest of the people living alone outside the camp.

So you can just imagine the challenges that go with having leprosy in the book of Leviticus and into that kind of picture I can't help

but to think about the book of Luke so Luke chapter 5 verse 12 talks about Jesus

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