Thy commandment
is exceedingly broad.
(Psalm 119:96)
The commands and statutes, ordinance and decrees, expand to cover things like communicable disease—something like covid: “When someone has a swelling or a blister or a shiny spot on the skin that might signal a serious disease, bring him to the priest. The priest will examine the sore… and if it is serious and infectious… the priest will quarantine the person for seven days” (Lev 13:2-4). Further priestly instructions are given for different kinds of diseases requiring various forms of quarantine. That is the sort of thing you find in the book of Leviticus. It is a handbook for the priesthood—the Levites.
Jesus honored such priestly statutes concerning communicable diseases. When he touched and healed a leprous man; Jesus said to him, “Go and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them" (Mk 1:40-45).
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