To: Forgiven_Sinner
Yes, there are a thousand and one such curiosities.
I like your speculation about rigidly-prudish relatives, although one can certainly imagine that a large census-driven influx made for space at a premium. But to refuse any woman in labor....
14 posted on
04/18/2021 5:51:56 PM PDT by
Hebrews 11:6
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To: Hebrews 11:6
But to refuse any woman in labor.... Childbirth can be quite loud, distressing to others in the house, and very messy. There were no laundromats. Being on nice clean straw might have been preferable all the way around.
I'm going with the "space at a premium during the census" theory above.
15 posted on
04/19/2021 5:58:58 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
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