But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead.
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But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead.
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And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
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But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It is a sign that such baldness came not…
It is a sign that such baldness came not from age or any accident, but from the leprosy.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He is a leprous man, he is unclean,.... And…
He is a leprous man, he is unclean,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful:
the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; as in any other case of leprosy:
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his plague is in his head; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles, and are therefore, like the leper, to be avoided and rejected from the communion of the saints, Tit 3:10; and shows that men are accountable for their principles as well as practices, and liable to be punished for them.
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 It is a leprosy - It is a sign…
It is a leprosy - It is a sign that such baldness came not from age, or any accident, but from the leprosy.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Sore - Rather, stroke. It is the same word…
Sore - Rather, stroke. It is the same word which elsewhere in this and the next chapter is rendered plague.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Colour, indicating some bad humours, which had caused the…
Colour, indicating some bad humours, which had caused the hair to fall off.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 42. A white, reddish sore — This alone was…
42. A white, reddish sore — This alone was a sure token of the dreadful disease. Hence no seven days’ quarantine was enjoined; he is utterly unclean. Nevertheless the ancient rabbins inferred from the clause, “It is like leprosy in the skin of the flesh,” that all the criteria specified in the former case are to be applied to this, and that the quarantine of two weeks is to be enforced on the patient.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (42) And if there be in the bald head.—Better,…
(42) And if there be in the bald head.—Better, But if there be in the bald backhead. But if a reddish-white eruption appears either in the hinder or fore part of the bald head, resembling that which arises in the place of healed boils (see Lev_13:19-24), then it indicates the existence of leprosy.
In his bald head.—Better, in his bald backhead.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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Yahweh continues telling Moses and Aaron what the people must do when someone has a skin disease.
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infectious disease
See how you translated these words in Leviticus 13:3.
he is unclean ... pronounce him unclean
The person whom other people must not touch is spoken of as if he were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 13:42 A reddish white sore perhaps indicated pus and…
13:42 A reddish white sore perhaps indicated pus and inflammation.
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