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[โ€“] rynzcycle@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
-Gen 30:14

Umm... what the hell do I do? What's a mandrake?!

Random Verse Generator, who's next?

ETA: I googled

The alkaloids make the plant, in particular the root and leaves, poisonous, via anticholinergic, hallucinogenic, and hypnotic effects.

Yeah, I'm goin' to jail.

[โ€“] Thepinyaroma@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Exodus 35:3 Passage: "Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

Well, not jail at least.

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