and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
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and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
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And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
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And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
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Passages linked to Leviticus 14:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 13:46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.
- Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
- 2 Kings 5:3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
- 2 Kings 5:7-8 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.” It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
- 2 Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- Job 5:18 For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
- Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
- Matthew 11:5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Luke 4:27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
- Luke 7:22 Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Luke 17:15-19 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out…
Lev 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
Ver. 3. If the plague of leprosy be healed.] As it was in Simon the leper that entertained Christ. Jealousy, frenzy, and heresy are counted incurable diseases: not so leprosy; though the most carried it to their death, as Gehazi, Azariah, &c.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To wit, by God; for God alone did heal…
To wit, by God; for God alone did heal or cleanse him really, the priest only ministerially and declaratively, as ministers are said to remit sins, though it be granted that none can truly and properly forgive sins but God, Mar 2:7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the priest shall go forth out of the…
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp,.... A little without the camp, as Ben Gersom notes. There have been several goings forth of Christ our High Priest; first in the council and covenant of grace and peace, when he became the surety of his people; then in time by the assumption of human nature, when he came forth from his Father, and came into the world to save them; next, when he went forth out of the city of Jerusalem to suffer for them; and also, when, at the time of conversion, he goes forth in quest of them, and looks them up, and finds them, and brings them home, which may answer to the type here; and all shows the great readiness of Christ to receive sinners:
and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; that all the signs of uncleanness are removed, the swelling, the scab, or bright spot, and the white hair in them, and, instead of that, black hair is grown up. The typical priest did not heal, nor could he, the healing was of God; he only looked to see by signs if the plague was healed; but our antitypical priest looks with an eye of pity and compassion on leprous sinners, and they are enabled to look to him by faith, and virtue goes out of him to the healing of their diseases; as he looks upon them in their blood, and says to them, Live, so he looks upon them in their leprosy, and touches them, and says, "I will, be thou clean", Mat 8:3, and they are immediately healed; he is the sun of righteousness, which arises upon them with healing in his wings.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Healed by God-For God alone did heal or cleanse…
Healed by God-For God alone did heal or cleanse him really, the priest only declaratively.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. The priest shall go forth out of…
Verse 3. The priest shall go forth out of the camp] As the leper was separated from the people, and obliged, because of his uncleanness, to dwell without the camp, and could not be admitted till the priest had declared that he was clean; hence it was necessary that the priest should go out and inspect him, and, if healed, offer for him the sacrifices required, in order to his re-admission to the camp. As the priest alone had authority to declare a person clean or unclean, it was necessary that the healed person should show himself to the priest, that he might make a declaration that he was clean and fit for civil and religious society, without which, in no case, could he be admitted; hence, when Christ cleansed the lepers, Mt 8:2-4, he commanded them to go and show themselves to the priest, &c.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 14:3. Healed — By God, for God alone…
Lev 14:3. Healed — By God, for God alone did heal or cleanse him really, the priest only declaratively.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Camp. The leper was not left to his own…
Camp. The leper was not left to his own judgment to mix with society, as soon as he perceived himself cleansed. He had to send for a priest; and one of the most discerning among those who made it their employment to study in the court of the tabernacle, was commissioned to examine him. (Grotius) --- The sacrifice was offered without the camp, (Calmet) if it may be called a sacrifice. (Menochius) --- That of Christ’s body was not yet instituted, which supplies all the rest. (St. Augustine, contra adv. i. 19.) (Worthington)
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 3. Healed — See introductory remarks.
3. Healed — See introductory remarks.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. The priest goes outside to meet the leper;…
3. The priest goes outside to meet the leper; probably signs of convalescence have already been notified to the priest, which have satisfied him, and he now declares the plague to be healed.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) And the priest shall go forth.—To this appointed…
(3) And the priest shall go forth.—To this appointed place the priest had to go to meet and examine the restored leper, and to satisfy himself that he was thoroughly cured.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The priest. The agent is stilt the priest, not…
The priest. The agent is stilt the priest, not the physician. The priest shall go forth out of the comp. "May we not (as Hesychius suggests) see a figure here of the compassion of our Great High Priest, who has gone forth out of heaven itself, the camp of angel hosts, and has come down to earth, not only to examine but to heal tile moral leprosy of sin, "to seek and to save the lost", (Luk_19:10) and who carefully examines and scrutinizes all the secrets of all hearts? (Heb_4:12) And he was exempt from all contagion of sin while he lived and moved among sinners, (Mat_9:11 Luk_15:1) and was "holy, harmless, and undefiled (Heb_7:26) (Wordsworth). And the priest shall look. In later times it was ordered that the examination was not to take place on the sabbath, nor in the early morning, nor in the late afternoon, nor inside a house, nor on a cloudy day, nor in the glare of midday, and that the priest must have good eyesight, and only determine one case at a time; nor was he allowed to pronounce judgment on his own kindred. And, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper. The plague of leprosy is healed before the ceremony of purification begins, but the leper is not pronounced clean until he has been sprinkled with the blood and water (verse 7).
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain go forth
go forth
As a type of Gospel salvation the points are:
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(1) The leper does nothing Rom 4:5; Rom 4:5.
(2) the priest seeks the leper, not the leper the priest Luk 19:10.
(3) "with-out shedding of blood is no remission" Heb 9:22.
(4) "and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain" 1Co 15:17.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Yahweh continues telling Moses and Aaron what the people must do when someone is cleansed of a skin disease.
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infectious skin disease
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the one to be cleansed
This can be translated in active form. AT: "the person he is cleansing" (See: Active or Passive)
clean birds
Birds that God allowed the people to eat and offer as sacrifices are spoken of as if they were physically clean. (See: Metaphor)
scarlet yarn
"red yarn"
hyssop
an herb with a pleasant smell that was used for medicine (See: Translate Unknowns)
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priest
cure
command
clean
life
cedar
water
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