Quotes About Healing

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my fatherís household.”

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.

When anyone develops a skin disease, he must be brought to the priest.

But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,

the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.

The priest will reexamine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the infected person clean; then he is clean.

When a boil appears on someoneís skin and it heals,

But if the spot remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

When there is a burn on someoneís skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,

But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread on the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest is to pronounce him clean; for it is only the scar from the burn.

then the person must shave himself except for the scaly area. Then the priest shall isolate him for another seven days.

On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scaly outbreak, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean.

If, however, the scaly outbreak spreads further on the skin after his cleansing,

If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.

When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin,

As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

“This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.

The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,

Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field.

Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,

the priest shall go outside the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.