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When I was young and just beginning to learn I tried to apply what I considered Biblical Principles for myself.
I came up with some weird results and some that were not so weird.
For instance I somehow got the idea that synthetic clothing should be forbidden so I therefore avoided it.
It so happens that synthetic clothing is permitted by the Torah and there is no reason to prohibit it.
Nevertheless from a health point of view there is something to be said for keeping away from wearing synthetics.
They do not absorb sweat so well and can cause the accumulation of static electricity and tension in the body.
So too, all those paranoid sounding ideas you may have picked up from Survivalist groups are not going to help you.
They are just liable to further complicate a situation that may already not be so simple as it is.
There may however come a time when such notions could come in handy. Who knows?
Dear Yair,
Would you please explain further the etymology of Kenites?
In Strong's Concordance it is #7014 ?kopf, yod, final nun Qayin; the same as 7013 with a play upon the affinity to 7069; Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Pal., and of an Oriental tribe:--Cain, Kenite.
I thought that the Kenites were descendants of Cain and lived in a geographical area. br> I never thought Jethro was a Kenite as in a descendant of Cain. I thought he was called a Kenite because he lived in that geographical location, like I am a American because I live in America, though I am of Irish ancestry.
Thanks for replying.
SuzanneU
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Brit-Am Reply:
We understand the Kenites of Jethro were a group amongst the Midianites.
They may well have been the blacksmiths and workers of metal.
"Ken" is said to mean "metal-worker" in Semitic dialects though it does not have
that meaning in Hebrew.
Kenites may therefore originally have been a profession that became inherited
and was localized to a particular family.
There is no ancestral linkage to Cain.
For more on the Kenites go to our web-site enter Kenite in our Brit-Am Search
Engine
http://www.britam.org/SearchEngines.html
and you will find more than 20 entries, all of them of interest.
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