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Originally Posted by HappyTown
Believe it or not Evang.Benincasa, there are bible verses about nose rings. And you might be surprised by what the bible has to say.The first is in Genesis 24 where Abraham sends a servant to find a wife for his son, Isaac. The second passage is in Ezekiel 16 where God uses highly figurative language to describe how he chose Israel as his own possession.
Genesis 24:21-22
Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey successful. When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.
Ezekiel 16:9-14
I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you. I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments. I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck, and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was fine flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign LORD.
The word , “pierce,” is in fact from a Hebrew word that means, “slash,” or “cut.” The nations around Israel and in the Promised Land where God was sending them had a funeral rite that involved using stones or knives to cut their flesh until it bled. That is what God commanded them not to do. Leviticus 19:28 has nothing to do with jewelry. “Do not cut your bodies for the dead…” The law is against cutting oneself as a means of showing grief or for funeral rites, see also Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 16:6, 48:37; and Mark 5:5. |
Ring in the nose of a woman was a pagan practice of the Chadians, as was earrings. Abram came out of the Ur of the Chaldees, he was a pagan the son of pagans, who worshiped a goat headed deity, as many other deities.
Abram came out from among them to be separate, and then was named Abraham.
I understand the practice of using stones and knives in mourning, but the practice of tattooing was used in the ancient times to identify with one's tribe, position in the tribe or culture, and to worship their devils.
Jewelry was primarily used to worship gods, or ward off unclean spirits.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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