If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
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If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
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And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
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And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain By sickness, or any other inconvenience.
By sickness, or any other inconvenience.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then the priest shall look upon it,.... The white…
Then the priest shall look upon it,.... The white reddish sore:
and, behold, if the rising of the sore; or the swelling of it:
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be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead; See Gill on Lev 13:42,
as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; as in Lev 13:2; having the signs of the leprosy there given; anyone of them, excepting the white hair, which in this case could be no sign, there being none: Jarchi's note is, according to the appearance of the leprosy, said in Lev 13:2; and what is said in it is, it defiles by four appearances, and is judged in two weeks; but not according to the appearance of the leprosy said of the boil, and burning, which were judged in one week; nor according to the appearance of the scalls, of the place of hair, which do not defile by the four appearances, the rising or swelling, and the scab of it, the bright spot, and the scab of that.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 41. Forehead bald — This is in distinction from…
41. Forehead bald — This is in distinction from the hind bald. Lev_13:40, note.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (41) And he that hath his hair fallen off—Rather,…
(41) And he that hath his hair fallen off—Rather, And if he loseth the hair of his head.
He is forehead bald.—This, which according to the administrators of the law, was from the crown of the head descending to his face, and constituted the man a gibbèach, was also not a sign of leprosy.
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