King James Version
Leviticus 14
57 verses with commentary
Cleansing from Skin Diseases
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ's blood, tearing t...
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(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The regulations for the purification of the leper are delivered to Moses alone, who is to communicate them to Aaron and his sons, whilst the rules by which the distemper is to be discerned were given both to Moses and Aaron. (See Leviticus 13:1.) The reason for this is probably that Moses was designed by God as the great law-giver and teacher of the prie...
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**9. These shall ye eat ... whatsoever hath fins and scales--**"The fins and scales are the means by which the excrescences of fish are carried off, the same as in animals by perspiration. I have never known an instance of disease produced by eating such fish; but those that have no fins and scales cause, in hot climates, the most malignant disorders when eaten; in many cases they prove a mortal p...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
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<strong>This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offerin...
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(2) **This shall be the law of the leper.**—That is, the manner in which an Israelite cured of his leprosy shall be purified and restored to the communion of the sanctuary on the day when he is pronounced clean.
**He shall be brought unto the priest.**—He is to be conducted from his place of seclusion (see Leviticus 13:46) to an appointed place on the borders of the camp. It was this coming to the...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
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<strong>And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood media...
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(3) **And the priest shall go forth.**—To this appointed place the priest had to go to meet and examine the restored leper, and to satisfy himself that he was thoroughly cured.
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet , and hyssop: birds: or, sparrows
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<strong>Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood medi...
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(4) Then shall the priest command to take.—Literally, *And the priest shall command, and he shall take, *that is, the leper shall take. To avoid the ambiguity as to the person, the translators of the Authorised Version adopted *the *rendering in the text. As the relatives of the cured leper procured the things prescribed for the purification, some of the ancient versions render it, *And they shall...
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**12. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales, &c.--**Under this classification frogs, eels, shellfish of all descriptions, were included as unclean; "many of the latter (shellfish) enjoy a reputation they do not deserve, and have, when plentifully partaken of, produced effects which have led to a suspicion of their containing something of a poisonous nature."
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
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<strong>And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offeri...
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(5) **And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed.**—Rather, *And the priest shall command, and he shall kill the one bird, *that is, upon the priest ordering it, the cured leper is to kill the one which is the fairer and better bird of the two, as was the rule during the second Temple. Not being a sacrifice, the victim was killed outside the camp.
**In an earthen vessel over runn...
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**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet , and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
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<strong>As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offering...
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(6) **And shall dip them and the living bird.**—With the crimson thread the priest tied together lengthwise the bundle of hyssop and the cedar wood, extended about them the wings and the tail of the living bird, and then dipped all the four in the mixture of blood and water which was in the earthen vessel.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. into: Heb. upon the face of the field
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<strong>And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration....
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(7) **And he shall sprinkle.**—Having thus dipped the hyssop fastened to the cedar stick into the blood and water, the priest is to sprinkle with it the back of the hand and the forehead of the patient seven times. The seven times symbolised the complete cleansing. (See Leviticus 4:6.) Hence Naaman the leper washed himself seven times in the Jordan (2Kings 5:10; 2Kings 5:14).
**And shall let the l...
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**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
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<strong>And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, b...
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(8) **Shall wash his clothes.**—This was done not to disinfect them, for leprosy, as we have seen, was not contagious, but as an act of purification, which was performed after every kind of defilement. (See Leviticus 6:20; Leviticus 11:25, &c.)
**And shave off all his hair.**—The razor had to pass over the whole of his body, even his secret parts. A similar process was undertaken at the consecrati...
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**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows , even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
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<strong>But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers,...
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(9) **But it shall be . . . —**Better, *And it shall be. *The second stage of purification, which restored the convalescent to the communion of the sanctuary, began on the seventh day, when, as a first act, he had again to shave off the hair of the whole of his body.
**Also he shall wash his flesh.**—Better, *and he shall bathe himself, *or *his body. *The expression “flesh” simply means *self, *o...
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**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Of declaring the leper to be clean.(1-9)
The sacrifices to be offered by him.(10-32)
The leprosy in a house.(33-53)
Summary of the law concerning leprosy.(54-57)
**Verses 1-9**
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and th...
Read full commentary →And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. of the: Heb. the daughter of her year
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<strong>And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and mul...
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(10) **And on the eighth day.**—Though restored to social intercourse with his fellow brethren, the recovered leper could not at once be admitted to the privileges of the sanctuary, but had to bring on the eighth day three kinds of sacrifices: viz., a trespass offering, a sin offering, and a burnt offering. The lamb for the sin offering had not only to be without blemish (see Leviticus 1:3), but o...
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**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
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<strong>And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<...
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(11) **Shall present the man . . . before the Lord, at the door.**—As his purification was not yet effected, since expiation had not yet been made, the convalescent could not enter into the court of the Israelites. Hence, during the second Temple the priest who performed the function of purifying him went close to the gate of Nicanor, between the court of the Women and that of Israel. Here the pat...
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**13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--**All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable su...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
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<strong>And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic pri...
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(12) **And offer him for a trespass offering.**—As leprosy was a Divine punishment for sin, the restored leper had to bring expiatory sacrifices. There is, however, a striking difference in the ritual of the leper’s trespass offering and the ordinary trespass offering described in Leviticus 5:6, &c. In the case before us, not-only did oil accompany it, but both the trespass offering and the oil we...
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**20. All fowls that creep, &c.--**By "fowls" here are to be understood all creatures with wings and "going upon all fours," not a restriction to animals which have exactly four feet, because many "creeping things" have more than that number. The prohibition is regarded generally as extending to insects, reptiles, and worms.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
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<strong>And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple ...
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(13) **And he shall slay the lamb.**—Better, *And the lamb shall be killed. *On ordinary occasions the sacrificer himself slaughtered the victim on the north side of the altar (see Leviticus 1:5); but as the convalescent was not as yet allowed to enter the court, other persons appointed for these occasions killed the sacrifice. Hence the ancient Chaldee Version of the so-called Jonathan ben Uzziel...
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**21-22. Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet--**Nothing short of a scientific description could convey more accurately the nature "of the locust after its kind." They were allowed as lawful food to the Israelites, and they are eaten by the Arabs, who fry them in olive oil. When sprinkled with salt, dried, smoked, and fried,...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
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<strong>And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, invol...
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(14) **And the priest shall take some of the** **blood.**—During the second Temple two priests caught the blood of the trespass offering—one into a vessel, and the other into the hollow of his hand. The one who caught the blood in the vessel sprinkled it against the wall of the altar, whilst the other who had the blood in the hollow of his hand went to the convalescent, who was waiting in the porc...
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**21-22. Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet--**Nothing short of a scientific description could convey more accurately the nature "of the locust after its kind." They were allowed as lawful food to the Israelites, and they are eaten by the Arabs, who fry them in olive oil. When sprinkled with salt, dried, smoked, and fried,...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
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<strong>And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offering s...
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(15) **Shall take some of the log of oil.**—This he had to do with his right hand, which is actually expressed in the ancient Chaldee paraphrase.
**And pour it into the palm of his own left** **hand.**—Better, *and he shall pour it into the palm of the priest’s left hand, *that is, the priest who has hitherto performed the ceremony of cleansing the leper now takes some of the log of oil, and puts ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
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<strong>And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaroni...
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(16) **And the priest shall dip.**—The priest did not take the oil into the sanctuary, but, holding it in the hollow of his hand, stood in the court, whilst the officiating priest, turning his face to the Holy of Holies, dipped his right finger in the oil, and sprinkled it seven times upon the floor of the court, which was understood to mean “before the Lord,” dipping his finger every time he spri...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
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<strong>And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed le...
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(17) **And of the rest of the oil.**—With the rest of the oil both priests returned to the leper, when the officiating priest put it on those parts of the convalescent’s body on which he had previously put blood, *so *that the oil now actually was “upon the blood of the trespass offering,” on the tip of the ear, the thumb, and the toe of the cleansed leper. (See also Leviticus 14:28.)
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
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<strong>And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing resto...
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(18) **He shall pour upon the head.**—That which remains of the oil in the hollow of the priest’s hand after some of it had been sprinkled seven times before the Lord, and after some had been put on the several organs of the leper’s body, the priest is *to put, *not “pour,” upon the convalescent’s head—the quantity left in the hand not being sufficient to pour—whilst the bulk of the log from which...
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**26. every beast ... not cloven-footed--**The prohibited animals under this description include not only the beasts which have a single hoof, as horses and asses, but those also which divided the foot into paws, as lions, tigers, &c.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
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<strong>And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br>...
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(19) **And the priest shall offer the sin offering.**—The other ewe lamb mentioned in Leviticus 14:10 the priest is now to offer as a sin offering, to expiate the sins which the restored leper had committed during his illness, having probably given vent to impatient and unbecoming expressions at his loathsome condition, not as due in consequence of having been in a state of uncleanness. The regula...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
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<strong>And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Hebre...
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(20) **Shall offer the burnt offering.**—With the offering of the burnt offering, accompanied by the meat offering mentioned in Leviticus 14:10, concluded the second and last stage of the purification of the leper, which completely restored him to the privileges of the sanctuary.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil; cannot: Heb. his hand reach not to be: Heb. for a waving
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<strong>And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, ...
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(21) **And if he be poor.**—The benign consideration for the poor which has been evinced on former occasions in connection with the sacrifices (see Leviticus 5:7; Leviticus 5:11, Lev. 12:18) is also shown here. Three lambs and three tenth deals of flour were more than a poor leper could afford to bring. In such cases, therefore, all that was required was one lamb, which constituted the trespass of...
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**29. the weasel--**rather, the mole.
**the mouse--**From its diminutive size it is placed among the reptiles instead of the quadrupeds.
**the tortoise--**a lizard, resembling very nearly in shape, and in the hard pointed scales of the tail, the shaketail.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get ; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
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<strong>And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The five main offerings (...
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(22) **Two turtledoves, or two young pigeons**—which were plentiful and cheap in Palestine (see Leviticus 1:14), instead of the two lambs required of those who were able to bring them.
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**30. the ferret--**the Hebrew word is thought by some to signify the newt or chameleon, by others the frog.
**the chameleon--**called by the Arabs the warral, a green lizard.
**the snail--**a lizard which lives in the sand, and is called by the Arabs chulca, of an azure color.
**the mole--**Another species of lizard is meant, probably the chameleon.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
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<strong>And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic pries...
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(23) **And he shall bring them on the eighth day.**—This premises that the poor man is to go through the first stage of purification which is prescribed in Leviticus 14:3-6, and which admits him to social life, in exactly the same manner as the rich man, since the things prescribed for this stage are inexpensive.
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**31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--**These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
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<strong>And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic pri...
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(24-29) **And the priest shall take the lamb.**—The ritual for the poor man’s sacrifices, however, is the same as that which is prescribed for the rich man. The solemnity and imposing nature of the service is not diminished, as both rich and poor are alike in the presence of the Lord. Hence the directions in Leviticus 14:24-29 in connection with the humbler sacrifices are simply a repetition of th...
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**31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--**These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
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<strong>And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate clean...
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**31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--**These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
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<strong>And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offering sacrifices and maintaining...
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**31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--**These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
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<strong>And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between Go...
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**31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--**These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
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<strong>And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed l...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
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<strong>And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Heb...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get ;
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<strong>And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is n...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
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<strong>Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple ...
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**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
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<strong>This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel to d...
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(32) **This is the law of him . . . whose hand is not able to get.**—That is, that which is laid down in Leviticus 14:21-31 constitutes the law for the restored leper who is too poor to offer the sacrifices prescribed in Leviticus 14:10-20.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-32**
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rit...
Read full commentary →Laws About Mildew in Houses
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offering sacrifices and maintaining the tabernacle. Th...
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(33) **And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron.**—Whilst the law about the cleansing of restored lepers was addressed to Moses alone (see Leviticus 14:1), the regulations about leprous houses, like those with regard to leprous garments and persons, are for the same reason delivered to Moses and Aaron conjointly. (See Leviticus 13:1.)
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
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<strong>When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>What L...
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(34) **When ye be come into the land of Canaan.**—We have here the first of four instances in Leviticus of a law being given prospectively, having no immediate bearing on the condition of the people of Israel (see Leviticus 19:23; Leviticus 23:10; Leviticus 25:2). This may be the reason why it is separated from the law of leprous men and garments, which we should naturally expect it would follow, ...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
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<strong>And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated bet...
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(35) **He that owneth the house.**—As in the case of the suspicious symptoms in human beings, the suspected house is forthwith to be examined by the priest.
**Saying, It seemeth to me . . . —**According to the authorities in the time of Christ, this prescribes the formula which the owner of the house is to use when he communicates the fact to the priest. Hence they enacted that though he be himsel...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: empty: or, prepare
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<strong>Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multi...
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(36) **That they empty the house.**—If the examination was made before the removal of the objects in it, and the priest pronounced the house leprous, all the furniture, &c, found therein would be defiled. Hence the benign law that everything should be removed previous to the priest’s inspection, to save the household stuff. This assuredly shows that the law did not regard leprosy as infectious.
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
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<strong>And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<...
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(37) **With hollow strakes, greenish or reddish.**—If the house is really leprous, the priest on inspecting it will find in the walls the same three symptoms which are visible in the skin of leprous human beings: (1) hollow strakes, or, rather, *deep cavities *or *depressions, *which the ancient canons define as a depression deeper than the rest of the wall, being the same symptom as in man (see L...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
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<strong>Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offeri...
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(38) **Shut up the house seven days.**—On finding these symptoms, the priest is to put the house in quarantine for seven days, in order to see what alteration will take place during this interval, adopting the same treatment as in the case of leprous garments. (See Leviticus 13:50.)
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
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<strong>And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated bet...
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(39, 40) **And the priest shall come again.**—If on inspecting it again at the end of the first week’s quarantine, the priest finds that the depression or discolouring has spread in the walls, thus indicating the progress of the disease, just as in the case of leprous men and garments (see Leviticus 13:5), he is to order the affected stones which exhibit these symptoms to be pulled out of the wall...
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**47. make a difference between the unclean and the clean--**that is, between animals used and not used for food. It is probable that the laws contained in this chapter were not entirely new, but only gave the sanction of divine enactment to ancient usages. Some of the prohibited animals have, on physiological grounds, been everywhere rejected by the general sense or experience of mankind; while o...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
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<strong>Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic pr...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
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<strong>And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>Ritual ...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
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<strong>And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains...
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CHAPTER 12 Le 12:1-8. Woman's Uncleanness by Childbirth.
**2. If a woman, &c.--**The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised (Ge 17:12; Ro 4:11-13); the mother of a girl for two weeks (Le 12:5)--a stigma on the sex (1Ti 2:14, 15) for sin, which was removed by Christ; everyone who came near her during that time contracted a similar def...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
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<strong>And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br...
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(43, 45) **And if the plague come again.**—If after these alterations and precautions the symptoms reappear, the house must be pulled down, just as the garment was destroyed under similar circumstances (see Leviticus 13:51), and the materials deposited in the unclean receptacle outside the city, since its re-appearance shows that it is an incurable leprosy. From the fact that the materials of the ...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
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<strong>Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
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<strong>And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing resto...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
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<strong>Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel to distinguish between clea...
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(46) **Moreover he that goeth into the house.**—If any one only momentarily entered the house whilst it was under quarantine, he contracted defilement, which lasted till sundown of the same day. After the priest declared it unclean, it defiled by simply touching it outside.
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**6-8. the days of her purifying--**Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the day after the period of her separation ha...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
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<strong>And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all s...
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(47) **And he that lieth in the house.**—As abiding in it all night was graver than a momentary entrance, it involved the washing of the garments before the person so defiled could be clean. The same was the case if any one made a meal in it.
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**6-8. the days of her purifying--**Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the day after the period of her separation ha...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And if the priest shall come in , and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. shall come: Heb. in coming in shall come in, etc
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<strong>And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and ...
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(48) **The plague hath not spread.**—If at the end of the second week’s quarantine the distemper has not spread, having been checked by the means prescribed in Leviticus 14:42-43, the priest is to declare it clean, and fit for re-habitation. This is the same criterion adopted in the case of leprous men and garments. (See Leviticus 13:6; Leviticus 13:58.)
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**6-8. the days of her purifying--**Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the day after the period of her separation ha...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet , and hyssop:
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<strong>And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel to distinguish between clean and unclean...
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(49-53) **And he shall take to cleanse the house.**—The same rites are prescribed for cleansing the house which were performed in cleansing the healed leper (see Leviticus 14:3-7), with the exception of the sacrifices which the man brought afterwards, and which were necessarily absent in the case of the restored leprous house.
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
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<strong>And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely av...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet , and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
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<strong>And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, s...
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CHAPTER 13 Le 13:1-59. The Laws and Tokens in Discerning Leprosy.
**2. When a man shall have in the skin, &c.--**The fact of the following rules for distinguishing the plague of leprosy being incorporated with the Hebrew code of laws, proves the existence of the odious disease among that people. But a short time, little more than a year (if so long a period had elapsed since the exodus) when ...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet :
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<strong>And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing res...
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**3-6. the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, &c.--**The leprosy, as covering the person with a white, scaly scurf, has always been accounted an offensive blemish rather than a serious malady in the East, unless when it assumed its less common and malignant forms. When a Hebrew priest, after a careful inspection, discovered under the cutaneous blemish the distinctive sig...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
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<strong>But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>The Hebrew word <em>kaphar</em...
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**3-6. the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, &c.--**The leprosy, as covering the person with a white, scaly scurf, has always been accounted an offensive blemish rather than a serious malady in the East, unless when it assumed its less common and malignant forms. When a Hebrew priest, after a careful inspection, discovered under the cutaneous blemish the distinctive sig...
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**Verses 33-53**
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it ...
Read full commentary →This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
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<strong>This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical system could o...
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(54-56) **This is the law for all manner of plague.**—These verses sum up the laws of leprosy given in Leviticus 13, 14. The various names contained in Leviticus 14:56 are repeated from Leviticus 13:2.
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**3-6. the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, &c.--**The leprosy, as covering the person with a white, scaly scurf, has always been accounted an offensive blemish rather than a serious malady in the East, unless when it assumed its less common and malignant forms. When a Hebrew priest, after a careful inspection, discovered under the cutaneous blemish the distinctive sig...
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**Verses 54-57**
When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ep 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former sins. Let us follow after holiness, and let us compassionate other poor lepers, and desire, seek, and pray for their cleansing.
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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<strong>And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through His incarnation, perfe...
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**3-6. the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, &c.--**The leprosy, as covering the person with a white, scaly scurf, has always been accounted an offensive blemish rather than a serious malady in the East, unless when it assumed its less common and malignant forms. When a Hebrew priest, after a careful inspection, discovered under the cutaneous blemish the distinctive sig...
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**Verses 54-57**
When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ep 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former sins. Let us follow after holiness, and let us compassionate other poor lepers, and desire, seek, and pray for their cleansing.
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
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<strong>And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies God's righteous ...
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**7-8. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin--**Those doubtful cases, when they assumed a malignant character, appeared in one of two forms, apparently according to the particular constitution of the skin or of the habit generally. The one was "somewhat dark" [Le 13:6]--that is, the obscure or dusky leprosy, in which the natural color of the hair (which in Egypt and Palestine is black) is...
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**Verses 54-57**
When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ep 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former sins. Let us follow after holiness, and let us compassionate other poor lepers, and desire, seek, and pray for their cleansing.
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. when it is unclean: Heb. in the day of the unclean, and in the day of the clean
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<strong>To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Cleansing from Skin Diseases</strong>. Elaborate cleansing ritual for healed lepers, involving birds, blood, and multiple offerings, symbolizing restoration.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel to distinguish between clean and unclean, holy and c...
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(57) **To teach when it is unclean.**—This verse is intimately connected with Leviticus 14:54, viz.: “This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy . . . to afford instruction in the day of uncleanness, and in the day of cleanness:” that is, to furnish them with instructions against the time when they would have to deal with these cases in taking possession of the promised land. The ancient ...
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**7-8. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin--**Those doubtful cases, when they assumed a malignant character, appeared in one of two forms, apparently according to the particular constitution of the skin or of the habit generally. The one was "somewhat dark" [Le 13:6]--that is, the obscure or dusky leprosy, in which the natural color of the hair (which in Egypt and Palestine is black) is...
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**Verses 54-57**
When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ep 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former sins. Let us follow after holiness, and let us compassionate other poor lepers, and desire, seek, and pray for their cleansing.