Lil Red Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 What's up with all the right hands in the Bible? A lot of what I read is, "I will put you in my right hand", "I will strike with my right hand", "I will rule with my right hand". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 In a time and culture where food was eaten by hand, communally, the right hand was for eating, and the left hand was for things like cleaning yourself after bathroom activities. The right hand is for clean or good things, and the left was for dirty or bad things. That's why the ancient penalty for theft of having your right hand cut off was often a death sentence. You couldn't eat from the communal bowl with your left hand, so you starved. To say that you would hold someone in your left hand was probably an extreme insult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Left handed people weren't invented back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incarnatewordsister Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 that makes me sad, I'm a lefty but thanks for the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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