The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
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The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
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And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
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And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, declareth that the flesh is not found,…
That is, declareth that the flesh is not found, but is in danger to be leprous.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 13:15 And the priest shall see the raw…
Lev 13:15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it [is] a leprosy.
Ver. 15. It is a leprosy.] Properly so called; a fretting soreness or scabbedness. The Greeks call it Elephas, or Elephantiasis, when the skin grows hard as the elephant’s skin. This the Israelites brought, likely, out of Egypt; for it was bred only about the Nile, and is therefore called the botch of Egypt. {Deu 28:27}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The raw flesh is unclean: this is repeated again…
The raw flesh is unclean: this is repeated again and again, because raw or living flesh might rather seem a sign of soundness, and the priest might easily be deceived by it, and therefore he was more narrowly to look into it, and to observe the place and manner and other circumstances in which it appeared.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the priest shall see the raw flesh,.... Or…
And the priest shall see the raw flesh,.... Or when he sees it, the person being brought to him to be viewed:
and pronounce him to be unclean; or shall pronounce him to be unclean:
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for the raw flesh is unclean; made a man so in a ceremonial sense; See Gill on Lev 13:10,
it is a leprosy; wherever any quick raw flesh appears in a swelling.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The raw flesh - This is repeated again and…
The raw flesh - This is repeated again and again, because raw or living flesh might rather seem a sign of soundness, and the priest might easily be deceived by it, and therefore he was more narrowly to look into it.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 13:15. The raw flesh — This is repeated…
Lev 13:15. The raw flesh — This is repeated again and again, because raw or living flesh might rather seem a sign of soundness, and the priest might easily be deceived by it, and therefore he was more narrowly to look into it.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) And the priest shall see the raw flesh.—Rather,…
(15) And the priest shall see the raw flesh.—Rather, the sound flesh. It will be seen that it is the sound flesh only, and not the white hair, which renders the patient unclean.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The priest must ... pronounce him unclean because the…
The priest must ... pronounce him unclean because the raw flesh is unclean
The man whom other people must not touch is spoken of as if he were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)
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pronounce him unclean
Here "him" refers to the person with the skin disease.
raw flesh
See how you translated these words in Leviticus 13:10.
infectious disease
See how you translated these words in Leviticus 13:3.
the priest will pronounce that person to be clean
The man whom other people may touch is spoken of as if he were physically clean. (See: Metaphor)
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