If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
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If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
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And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
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And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 13:22 And if it spread much abroad in…
Lev 13:22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague.
Ver. 22. And if it spread much abroad.] So, if sin reign, there is no pardon: rebel it may, reign must not.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Or, the plague, to wit, of leprosy, of which…
Or, the plague, to wit, of leprosy, of which he is speaking.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if it spread much abroad in the skin,....…
And if it spread much abroad in the skin,.... Upon viewing it on the seventh day, though it is not expressed, the swelling or bright spot; or "in spreading spread"; See Gill on Lev 13:7; which Ben Gersom interprets, not of the skin of the flesh, but of the ulcer:
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; even though there are no white hairs in it, nor is it lower than the skin, yet is not at a stand or contracted, but spreading:
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it is a plague; or stroke; it is one sort of a leprosy, and such an one as makes a man unclean in a ceremonial sense.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A plague - Or the plague of leprosy, of…
A plague - Or the plague of leprosy, of which he is speaking.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. A plague — The plague of the leprosy.
22. A plague — The plague of the leprosy.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) And if it spread much abroad.—If, on inspecting…
(22) And if it spread much abroad.—If, on inspecting it again at the end of the seven days’ seclusion, the priest finds that the spot has spread, it was evident that the blood was vitiated, and that the distemper began to develop in the body.
It is a plague.—That is, of leprosy. The word “leprosy,” which has here dropped out of the text, is still preserved in some of the ancient versions.
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