Finding mildew in your home can be a difficult problem to deal with. Fortunately the Bible provides some great advice on what to do (Leviticus 14:33-53).
If any of you find that the LORD has sent mildew on your house, then you must go and tell the priest about it. The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean.
Supposedly the creator of the universe is responsible for sending mildew into peoples homes. So this is naturally a thing a priest is well suited for. Try to find a local priest and get a hold of him immediately, surely he would be glad to help.
Then he shall go to the house and examine the mildew. If there are greenish or reddish spots that appear to be eating into the wall, he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days. On the seventh day he shall return and examine it again. If the mildew has spread, he shall order that the stones on which the mildew is found be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the city. After that he must have all the interior walls scraped and the plaster dumped in an unclean place outside the city. Then other stones are to be used to replace the stones that were removed, and new plaster will be used to cover the walls. If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered, the priest shall go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean. It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place. Any who enter the house while it is locked up will be unclean until evening. Any who lie down or eat in the house must wash their clothes. If, when the priest comes to look, the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house ritually clean, because the mildew has been completely removed.It is better to have no home at all, then a home with mildew. As it was said before, any priest would be glad to help a person with mildew problems. It's obvious that the writers of the Bible knew which issues were spiritual and which were not. This next piece of advice needs to be followed in perfect detail, being that it is an animal sacrifice ritual.
To purify the house, he shall take two birds, some cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop. He shall kill one of the birds over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water. Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord, and the live bird and shall dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle the house seven times. In this way he shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord. Then he shall let the live bird fly away outside the city over the open fields. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification for the house, and it will be ritually clean.- Leviticus 14:33-53
You may be asking yourself: "how does killing a bird help get rid of mildew?" Don't worry about it, the creator of the universe knows how it works and that is all that matters. Some people think that the Bible is just a book full of superstitious nonsense, but keep in mind the writers of the Bible were much more knowledgeable about how things worked then we are today. I believe these tips put into perspective just how much of an understanding the writers had of the world around them.What I don't understand is why people don't follow this advice for mildew problems anymore. Remember, the Bible is supposedly the word of God, follow all of it or none of it, stop cherry-picking what suits your purposes.
So let me see. You are mocking the Bible because it says the house is to be emptied out and the rotten/infected materials removed, and the house kept vacant for seven days to see if the rot was taken care of? And if it is not, it must be destroyed? That is no different than what happens in today's modern society, but those living in the time of Leviticus did not have our 'modern technology' to tell them what to do.
ReplyDeleteOverall, an entertaining post. Thank you for the laugh!
"To purify the house, he shall take two birds, some cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop. He shall kill one of the birds over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water. Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord, and the live bird and shall dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle the house seven times. In this way he shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord. Then he shall let the live bird fly away outside the city over the open fields. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification for the house, and it will be ritually clean.- Leviticus 14:33-53"
ReplyDeleteYep, just like in modern times....durp.
Well, if you think about it, even if you are an atheist. For one, the version of the bible you are reading may say mildew, but others say mold and such things. And also, if you didn't have anything to remove mold or mildew, would you stay and breathe it in? No! Now remember, no chemicals. If in a shower there is mold growth, you take out the floor and walls and replace them! (Well, you spray it, but this does spray doesn't exist, so you can't) If it grows back, (No spray!) you leave. They believed that it was unclean in terms of God, so they offered to God. Even if you don't believe in God, you have to give them credit for how they were.
ReplyDelete/face palm
ReplyDeleteThis went right over your head....