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Deu 23 notably fails to mention:I found some more relevant verses:
Sanitation & Health in the Bible - EARLY CHURCH HISTORY
Moses wrote down health laws, dictated to him by God, which were hundreds and thousands of years before they were discovered by doctors/scientists.earlychurchhistory.orgMoses wrote down health laws, dictated to him by God, which were hundreds and thousands of years before they were discovered by doctors/scientists.
Below is the first written law for quarantine in c. 1500 BC. It comes from the book of Leviticus in the Old Testament Bible.
“….And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.” The Mosaic Law in Leviticus 13:42-46 (c. 1500 BC) KJV
The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian quarantina giorni, meaning “space of forty days,” from quaranta “forty,” from the Latin quadraginta. Quarantine was first enforced in 1377 AD, 2,877 years after the Mosaic quarantine law, when there was an outbreak of the plague. Venice required ships from plague-stricken countries to wait in their port for 40 days to make sure no active cases of plague were aboard the ships.Washing after handling a dead body is prescribed. Numbers 19:11-19
“Whoever touches the dead body of any human being will be unclean for seven days.” Numbers 13:11There are Biblical Laws on how to handle human excrement. It must be buried away from the camp:
“You shall have a designated area outside the camp to which you shall go. As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.” Deuteronomy 23:12,13
Human waste, left in the open as many societies did and still do, carry viral and bacterial diseases. Many in our own day use rivers for toilets and for bathing. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates nearly 2.2 million people die annually from diseases caused by contaminated water.
A latrine hole should be at least 1.5m deep; at least 6m from dwellings; at least 30m from wells, springs, rivers and other water sources; should never be uphill from water sources used for drinking or bathing; and these minimum 30m distances should be doubled on porous ground such as sand or limestone.
It wouldn't have been difficult to include these requirements, and would have prevented a lot of dysentery and cholera. Did the all knowing god not know that making these explicit rules would prevent suffering; Or did the all loving god not care?