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Proper Method for Laying on of Hands

Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **6/28/17 9:47 am**

I was talking to my Bible college professor friend who has a masters in Hebrew translation from a school in Jerusalem.

We were talking about the Hebrew in the Genesis creation passage and God pressing the clay He made Adam from. He said in Hebrew, the word for 'laying' in 'laying on of hands' means to press. They'd press on the head of the goat in the scapegoat passage. He says the Jews still do that for ordination, put the right and down (demonstrating, doing it at an angle) and the left hand on top of the right hand and pressing.

Anyway, I thought that was an interesting cultural tidbit.
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Acts-celerater Posts: 787 **6/28/17 3:04 pm**

That's an intersection thought. The Jews hold to many ceremonial traditions and customs that the church has adopted to some degree.

The churches I've been in practice the basic hand to the forehead or specific part of the body (being mindful of gender of course), and let it go at that.
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01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **6/28/17 9:52 pm**

Link, was there any discussion of anointing and the laying on of hands? In my mind the two can be different, right?
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