Quotes about Baths

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

Observant Judeans would make a stop by the baths before morning prayers, as immersion was a component of spiritual cleanliness. For Jacob there was far more here than merely cleaning off the road's dust. He knew that the act of immersion was considered a symbol of change. Of elevating oneself from the earthly to the heavenly realms. Jacob wanted to mark all that had happened with such an act, and to complete the action with prayer.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.