""'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening."
Author: Leviticus 15 Verses #: 19
A normal and natural part of being a women is shedding the lining of the uterus once per month in a discharge of blood. A creator would know this and acknowledge this as fact, and would declare that there is nothing unnatural about the occurence. The holy bible, on the other hand makes menstruation something that makes a woman an untouchable. I would assume that this included little children and breast feeding infants that absolutely require the "touch" of their mother whether she in having her monthly period or not. To refer to a biologic norm as an "impurity" which renders a woman an untouchable and impure speaks to an author and a biblical authority that does not understand biology and implies that Yahweh was completely out of touch with "his" own creation. Clearly, the bible was written by male priests 4,000 years ago who had no knowledge of science and biology and apparently little actual direct revelation from an all knowing "creator" who saw women as lesser beings who were impure and untouchable once per month.
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Women twice as unclean after having a female child
"But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days."
Author: Leviticus 12 Verses #: 5
In Leviticus 12:2 the bible states that when a woman bears a son she is unclean one week. In the above verse if she bears a female she is unclean two weeks and then she is declared unclean twice as long as if she had had a son. As modern man knows the length of time that a woman bleeds after having a baby has nothing to do with the sex of the child she delivered. The length of time a woman bleeds just depends on how quickly her body recovers from the delivery. Ancient biblical men saw women as less desirable and unclean. The bible strictly forbid women to be touched during their menstrual cycle or after childbirth and demanded that the woman present a lamb as an offering at the temple after her purification of 33 days for a boy child and 66 days if she had a female child. Women were isolated as untouchables after childbirth rather than embraced and helped and comforted. Only evil men would make such cruel rules for women to live under. Childbirth in the desert is hard enough, but when you are declared unclean and untouchable after delivery life was made very harsh for mother and child. Modern society sees a picture of the care of women and girls in the traditions of muslim societies today and the world is aghast. We forget that this same treatment of women was our heritage as well. It is only with centuries of struggle were christian women able to advance as well, and only after ancient and absurd and horrifying laws were discarded.
Author: Leviticus 12 Verses #: 5
In Leviticus 12:2 the bible states that when a woman bears a son she is unclean one week. In the above verse if she bears a female she is unclean two weeks and then she is declared unclean twice as long as if she had had a son. As modern man knows the length of time that a woman bleeds after having a baby has nothing to do with the sex of the child she delivered. The length of time a woman bleeds just depends on how quickly her body recovers from the delivery. Ancient biblical men saw women as less desirable and unclean. The bible strictly forbid women to be touched during their menstrual cycle or after childbirth and demanded that the woman present a lamb as an offering at the temple after her purification of 33 days for a boy child and 66 days if she had a female child. Women were isolated as untouchables after childbirth rather than embraced and helped and comforted. Only evil men would make such cruel rules for women to live under. Childbirth in the desert is hard enough, but when you are declared unclean and untouchable after delivery life was made very harsh for mother and child. Modern society sees a picture of the care of women and girls in the traditions of muslim societies today and the world is aghast. We forget that this same treatment of women was our heritage as well. It is only with centuries of struggle were christian women able to advance as well, and only after ancient and absurd and horrifying laws were discarded.
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