The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, “When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests. The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean. If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
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The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
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And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:
And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
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And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague be dim, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is a scab; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.
Cross-references (32)
- Leviticus 11:25 (v6) Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 14:8 (v6) “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that…
- Leviticus 11:28 (v6) He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:40 (v6) He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his…
- Leviticus 13:2 (v6) “When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of…
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- Leviticus 13:3 (v8) The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague…
- Leviticus 13:27 (v7) The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the…
- Leviticus 13:35-36 (v7) But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin,…
- Deuteronomy 32:5 (v6) They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
- 1 Kings 8:38 (v6) whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and…
- 1 Kings 8:45 (v6) then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- Psalms 19:12 (v6) Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
- Psalms 38:3 (v7) There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Proverbs 20:9 (v6) Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
- Ecclesiastes 7:20 (v6) Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
- Isaiah 1:5-6 (v7) Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot…
- Isaiah 11:3-4 (v6) His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; but he…
- Isaiah 42:3 (v6) He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
- Matthew 15:7-8 (v8) You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but…
- John 13:8-10 (v6) Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.” Simon Peter said to…
- Acts 8:21 (v8) You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
- Romans 6:12-14 (v7) Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Also, do not present your members to sin as…
- Romans 14:1 (v6) Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1 (v6) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear…
- Philippians 3:18-19 (v8) For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction,…
- 2 Timothy 2:16-17 (v7) But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and…
- Hebrews 9:10 (v6) being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
- Hebrews 10:22 (v6) let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed…
- 2 Peter 2:19 (v8) promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
- James 3:2 (v6) For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
- 1 John 1:7-9 (v6) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses…
- Jude 1:22-23 (v6) On some have compassion, making a distinction, and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Hebrew, shall cleanse him.
Hebrew, shall cleanse him.
As having the skin drawn together, or blackish.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Lev 13:6 And the priest shall look on him…
Lev 13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat dark, [and] the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Ver. 6. It is but a scab.] Such as may be "the spot of God’s children." {Deu 32:5} Sin makes wicked men the object of God’s hatred, the saints of his pity; as we hate poison in a toad, but we pity it in a man.
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And he shall wash his clothes.] The best cannot wash in innocency; he must therefore wash in tears. {Isa 1:16} God also will set in and wash such with the blood of his Son.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v6 If the plague be somewhat dark; which is opposed…
If the plague be somewhat dark; which is opposed to the white colour of the leprosy. But the word may be rendered, have contracted itself, or, be restrained or confined to its former place and bigness; and thus the opposition seems to be most clear to the spreading of itself, mentioned both in the foregoing verse, and in the following clause.
He shall wash his clothes, though it was no leprosy, but a scab only; to teach us, that no sin was so small which did not need to be washed by the blood of Christ, which was the thing designed by all these washings.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–8 And the priest shall look on him again the…
And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day,.... On the second seventh day, at the end of a fortnight from his being first presented to him, and shut up:
and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark; the spot be not so bright, or so white as it was at first; though Aben Ezra observes, that indeed many wise men say, that is as signifying dark, and the testimony or proof they bring is Gen 27:1 but according to my opinion, adds he, the word is the reverse of to spread; and the sense is, if the plague does not spread itself in another place; and so some translators render it "contracted", or "contracts itself" (h): and this seems best to agree with what follows:
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and the plague spread not in the skin; but is as it was when first viewed, after waiting fourteen days, and making observations on it:
the priest shall pronounce him clean; that is, from leprosy, otherwise there was an impure disorder on him, a scabious one:
it is but a scab; which is the name, Jarchi says, of a clean plague or stroke, that is, in comparison of the leprosy, otherwise such cannot be said with any propriety to be clean. Ben Gersom better explains it, it is a white scab, but not of the kind of leprosy, although it is found as the whiteness of the bright spot; but there are not seen in it the signs of leprosy, the hair is not turned white, nor has the plague increased:
and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean; for seeing he was obliged to be shut up, as Jarchi observes, he is called unclean, and stood in need of dipping, that is, his body and his clothes into water; so the people of God, though they are justified by the righteousness of Christ, and are pronounced clean through it, yet since they have their spots and scabs, they have need to have their conversation garments continually washed in the blood of the Lamb.
(h) "contracta est", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "contraxerit sese", some in Vatablus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v6 Dark - Contrary to the white colour of the…
Dark - Contrary to the white colour of the leprosy. But the word may be rendered, have contracted itself, and thus the opposition seems to be most clear as the spreading of itself. He shall wash his clothes - Though it was no leprosy, to teach us, that no sin is so small as not to need to be washed by the blood of Christ, which was the thing designed by all these washings.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v6 Lev 13:6. Dark — Contrary to the white colour…
Lev 13:6. Dark — Contrary to the white colour of the leprosy. But the word may be rendered, have contracted itself, and thus the opposition seems to be most clear to the spreading of itself. He shall wash his clothes — Though it was no leprosy, to teach us, that no sin is so small as not to need to be washed by the blood of Christ, which was the thing designed by all these washings.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Somewhat dark - Rather, somewhat dim: that is, if…
Somewhat dark - Rather, somewhat dim: that is, if the spot is dying away.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Obscure. Some translate the Hebrew "retired," with the Syriac…
Obscure. Some translate the Hebrew "retired," with the Syriac and Arabic versions. --- Scab, "an ebullition," or pustule. (Theodoret; St. Jerome in Nah. ii.) --- Clothes, and himself. See Chap. xi. 40.
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).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the…
But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin--Those doubtful cases, when they assumed a malignant character, appeared in one of two forms, apparently according to the particular constitution of the skin or of the habit generally. The one was "somewhat dark" [Lev 13:6] --that is, the obscure or dusky leprosy, in which the natural color of the hair (which in Egypt and Palestine is black) is not changed, as is repeatedly said in the sacred code, nor is there any depression in the dusky spot, while the patches, instead of keeping stationary to their first size, are perpetually enlarging their boundary. The patient laboring under this form was pronounced unclean by the Hebrew priest or physician, and hereby sentenced to a separation from his family and friends--a decisive proof of its being contagious.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv6–7 6. Pronounce him clean — Ceremonially pure, though he…
6. Pronounce him clean — Ceremonially pure, though he may have other loathsome diseases, and be morally vile. The action of the priest, literally translated, is, to make him clean, as in the third verse he is to make the leper unclean. In both cases the action is declarative and not causative or judicial. This suggests the proper meaning of the apostolic binding and loosing in Mat_16:19, and the remitting and retaining of sins in Joh_20:23.
He shall wash his clothes — “As the very cause that had led to his being suspected showed that there was some impurity in his blood, a slight purification was prescribed, the moral effect of which would naturally be to teach that the very appearance of evil is an adequate ground of humiliation to any one that fears God.” — Bush.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v7 7. after that he hath shewn himself to the…
7. after that he hath shewn himself to the priest for his cleansing] i.e. in order to be declared clean. Three inspections by the priest are ordered with a week’s interval between each. If during either week the rising spreads, the priest shall pronounce him unclean.
It will be noticed that the word ‘plague’ is used to denote the rising or scab which is a mark of the leprosy, and also the person afflicted (in Lev_13:4; Lev_13:12-13; Lev_13:17 him that hath is not in the Heb.), as well as the disease itself in the phrase ‘the plague of leprosy.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–7 (6) And the priest shall look on him again.—If,…
(6) And the priest shall look on him again.—If, on further examination at the end of another week, the priest finds that the bright spot looks darker, and that it has not spread, he is to pronounce the patient clean, and set him at liberty, since it was simply an ordinary scurf; but though not leprous, the eruption indicated some impurity in his blood, and he had therefore to wash his garments.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v7 he ... himself
he ... himself
This refers to the person with the skin disease.
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the priest must pronounce him unclean
The man whom other people must not touch is spoken of as if he were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)
infectious disease
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v8 13:8 If the rash had spread, then the priest…
13:8 If the rash had spread, then the priest declared the person unclean and the isolation became long-term.
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