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. Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
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“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean. 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. Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
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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.
Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
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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.
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
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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.
Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head.
Cross-references (5)
- Job 36:14 (v44) They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
- Isaiah 1:5 (v44) Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Matthew 6:23 (v44) But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the…
- 2 Peter 2:1-2 (v44) But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies,…
- 2 John 1:8-10 (v44) Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward. Whoever transgresses and…
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v44 Lev 13:44 He is a leprous man, he [is]…
Lev 13:44 He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.
Ver. 44. His plague is in his head.] Such a leper is every ignorant man; how much more the man that is a heretic! whom therefore after the first and second admonition we must reject, {Tit 3:10} yea from such stand off. {1Ti 6:5} Keep aloof as from lepers, their very breath is infectious; and like the dogs of Congo, they bite, though they bark not. {a}
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{a} Purchas’s Pilg.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v42 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.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv42–44 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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v42 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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v42 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.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v42 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 On vv42, 44 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.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v43 43. as the appearance of leprosy] The criterion of…
43. as the appearance of leprosy] The criterion of white hair is absent, but the other tests of leprosy already mentioned are sufficient to determine whether the outbreak is leprous. According to tradition, two periods of seclusion were necessary as in Lev_13:2-6 and in Lev_13:29-37.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv42–43 (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.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v42 General Information:
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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
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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 On v42 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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