Genesis 24:22 - When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka [about 1/5 ounce] and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels [about 4 ounces].
There's nothing wrong with earrings, bracelets, necklaces, nose rings, and so on. Some of those types of ornaments I don't particularly care for -- on a woman or a man -- but that's just my personal preference. You like 'em? Fine with me. I wonder who first thought it would look cool to wear these things though.
Many types of adornments and piercings are back in vogue in some circles these days. Again, nothing wrong with them -- though I do wonder how easy it is to live with some of them. I'm guessing that none of these "modern" attachments are really new at all. Nose rings, as you can see here, were possibly very common at Abraham's time and probably were around many years (decades? centuries?) before that.
I wonder if there were piercing specialists back then or if you just found a friend with enough courage to do it for you.
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