A.D. 19-
A new day is beginning in the town of Capernaum, Terah is just putting away the morning dishes and she watches her husband get ready for his day. She watches as he fills his goatskin of water, enough for the day. She looks at the wooden dishes as she puts them to the place where she keeps them then she softly says. "I wish you did not have to go". He looks at her and smiles then says. "I will be back before the sun sets". She looks up at him and smiles then averts her eyes back down and says. "Still..."
He goes over to her, touches her hair then says. "I just have to go get the money then I will be back". She asks him a question. "Why you?" He shrugs his shoulders then says. "It has always been this way with this man, it is just the same. Why are you worried now?" This time she shrugs her shoulders lightly then says. "I do not know, I just am. I do not want you to go"
He smiles and gives her a kiss on the forehead than says. "I have to go." He goes to the door and waves to her then leaves with Terah looking after him.
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Hours later into the day, as Teman walks along the pathway he is on, he does not see the men up in the rocks on the hill above him. They look at him and they look at each other and they give evil smiles to each other than they pick up clubs next to them then they shake their heads and run down to him.
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Terah sits on the floor of her house and she thinks. 'Something is wrong...' She gets up and goes to a back room and a few minutes later, comes back and sits down and thinks. 'My blood is flowing, I did not think it was time for my flow...when Teman gets back I must tell him and leave until I am cleaned again. He will not like it, he does not like the rules of the temple'. She gets up and goes and cleans and does around the house then the a knock comes on the door, she goes to answer it and when she opens the door, there stands some men from the temple looking at her with deep sadness and she knew.
She rented her clothes when they told her. The tears came but it was like she was in a dream, it didn't seem real at first, something far away. But then they bought his body to the house.
She went and took care of his body. Cleaned it totally for his burial and she knew it was against the law and the rules but she did not speak a word of her flow of blood, she knew she would not be able to bury her husband and she could not stand the thought of that. But even after the time when she knew it should be over, it did not stop. It wasn't heavy so she did not pay too much attention to it...at first.
After they buried Teman in the tomb, Terah came back home, she just looked around her empty house then she went up to the roof and she looked up at the many stars and she said a prayer, "Jehovah...Terah said one time that he knew where our son had gone to and that is why he could still pray and have hope. I pray for that same guidance to be with me as I have buried my husband also."
She then closes her eyes and the chants of the scriptures comes to her mind.
A/N-From what I have studied and read, the woman with the issue of blood did not have a family or if she did when her flow came, her husband would have been bound to divorce her. ( I think that's what I understand ) That is why I had her family die off, I choose to think Teman would not have done that even tho I am trying to stick close to traditions of that day.
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