Leviticus 11-13

This morning's bread was a bit hard to swallow. God gave instructions to Moses about health concerns. God gave a long list of animals, fish, insects and birds that were clean or unclean. God was concerned about their health and only allowed them to eat animals that were good for them. God also gave instructions on purification after childbirth and regulations regarding infectious skin diseases. The one interesting thing to me in these passages was that a person with a skin disease was to tear their cloths, let their hair be unkepted, cover the lower part of their face, cry out "Unclean! Unclean!" and there were to live outside the camp in isolation. This wasn't something that society did to them, God gave these instructions for their own health.