256 verses about Health

“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’

then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.

He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

“If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

“‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

“‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

“‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

“‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;

For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathes his body in water.

The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.

He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”

After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? So would you endanger my head with the king.”