you should look to the areas of your countries where people are poverty-stricken and helpless and then do all you can to raise their standard of living, teaching them cleanliness and high morals. To serve the needy truly and from the heart is true service to God.
They were kept in the dark, squatting there with nothing to dwell upon beyond the fact they were unclean. Even the touch of their shadow would sour the land, blighting crops that grew there....At the end of their confinement they were led out blinking into the harsh and masculine glare of the sun. Their clothing was taken from them and destroyed. Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, it's mouth a red wound...
I'll purge and leave sack and live cleanly.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
God loveth the clean.
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch Till the white-winged reapers come.
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."