Quarantine

My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand far away.  Psalm 38:11  NASB Plague – Perhaps the modern world is finally uncomfortably familiar with this word, negaʿ.  Translated “plague,” we discover that the root (nāgaʿ) is about touching.  The noun, which we have in this verse, isn’t always about…