Een rat die je pad kruist betekent niets — maar ratten staan wel in de Bijbel

A rat crossing our path means nothing. Scripture assigns no significance to animal encounters, and reading omens in them is one of the few things the Bible explicitly forbids. Rats are in the Bible, though — in one very strange chapter — and the story is worth knowing, because it is about precisely this: people trying to work out what a disaster meant. Does the Bible say anything about animals crossing your path? Nothing, except that we should not read…