Questions & Answers
Questions 251 (COD Page 959)
Brother Branham, does this First Timothy 2:9 mean a woman cannot braid her hair? Does “broid” hair mean “braided” hair?
173 Now look, Sister, now this...I’m–I’m glad that followed this. I never fixed it there, but it just–it followed that good. Notice, a braided hair in that day was the sign of a street woman; that’s what she done, braided her hair. And Paul said to the Christians, “Now, that adorning, not let it be of a braided...” (or “broided” and “braid” is the same thing)–to braid their hair, because it looked like the rest of the world.
174 Now, you’re supposed not to look like the world or act like the world! See? The women are supposed to be different there. See? No, now, braiding hair...Now, today braided hair is pretty, and it’s a long ways from the fashion of the world. Now, you see the women, the way they do their hair today...Just keep your hair in any way; just don’t look like the world! See? Don’t look or dress like it! If they wear shorts, you wear a dress.
If they–if they do their hair all–cut it all off and bob it, and do them ever...You–you–you just let yours alone. See?
175 And the braid–but braided...The question was: Does “braided” mean–“broided” mean “braided”? Yes, that’s right. And now, on the street...
176 Now, I looked that up to find out years ago what the “braided” hair meant. See? The woman, actually, the women of old, they just pulled their hair back and tied it, more like in the ponytail today. And they went around...They had robes on like that, but the women of the street took their hair and braided it all across their heads, and wrapped it around like that, and put flowers in it and things like that, and that was kind of the–the flapper on the street; just like we would see the flapper today, the way she dresses. I’m saying flapper, ’cause you know I’m an old man; so that’s what they’s called them in my days. What is it they call them today? I...My, I don’t know. Chicks or something or another. So...Ever what it is. Give them any kind of a name, they like it.