Yesterday, I wrote about how an omniscient god might give His people useful health advice, but this One doesn’t. Well, He still doesn’t. In the chapter about how to handle someone’s skin disease, there’s a bit of herbs, and lots of sacrifice. But nothing that will actually help.

This carries over to today, when some people would rather pray than take their children to a doctor.

We also have a chapter all about various discharges. Lumped in with infections are women’s periods. You are unclean for seven days, and any who touch you are also unclean. And if a man and woman have sex (and the man comes), they are unclean for he rest of the day.

Readings about various discharges and molds seems like an unlikely thing to have in a holy book.

Tomorrow: Leviticus 16-18.