It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
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It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
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But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
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And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
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- Numbers 6:9 “ ‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
- Leviticus 14:8 “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 he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
- Numbers 8:7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh…
Lev 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Ver. 9. Even all his hair he shall shave off.] To show that repentance and mortification is not the work of a day, as he said in another case, {Ezr 10:13} but of a man’s whole life. There must be a daily shaving and paring of lusts and superfluities; which are to the soul as excrements are to the body. Yea, the more a sinner is exercised in mortification, the more he searcheth out his corruptions. Now he shaveth off the hair not of his head only, but of his beard and eyebrows.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He shall shave all his hair, which began to…
He shall shave all his hair, which began to grow again since it was first shaved, and now for more caution is shaved again.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But it shall be on the seventh day,.... After…
But it shall be on the seventh day,.... After he was first brought to the priest, and cleansed by the two birds, taken and used for him as directed, and he had been shaved and washed:
that he shall shave all his hair; a second time, whatsoever was grown in those seven days:
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all off his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows; even all his hair he shall shave off; not only the hair of the parts mentioned, but all other, the hair of his feet also, as Aben Ezra notes, who observes, that some say, the hair of his arms, and thighs, and breast; and so according to the Misnah (m), this was a second shaving, for it is said,"in the seventh day he shaves a second time, according to the first shaving:"
he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean; this was also repeated on the seventh, both the washing of his clothes, and the dipping of him in water; after which he was accounted clean, and was neither defiled nor defiling, and might go into his own tent or house, and into the tabernacle, and offer his offerings, and partake of the privileges of it, at least some of them, even the same day; according to the tradition he may eat of the tithes, and after sunset he may eat of the heave offerings, and when he has brought his atonement he may eat of the holy things (n).
(m) Ut supra, (Misn. Negaim, c. 11.) sect. 3. (n) Ibid.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain All his hair - Which began to grow again,…
All his hair - Which began to grow again, and now for more caution is shaved again.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 14:9. He shall shave all his hair —…
Lev 14:9. He shall shave all his hair — Which began to grow again, and now, for more caution, is again shaved off. He shall be clean — Legally declared so to be, so as to be readmitted both to his family and the public worship.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The best of all types of the healing of…
The best of all types of the healing of the Spirit, was the healing of the leper. In his formal cleansing, consecration, and atonement by sacrifice (see the notes at Lev 14:9-20), the ministers of the sanctuary bore public witness that he was restored to the blessing of communion with his brethren and with Yahweh. Hence, when the Son of God proved His divine mission by healing the lepers Mat 11:5, He did not excuse them from going to the priest to “offer for the cleansing those things which Moses commanded” Mar 1:44; Luk 5:14 “for a testimony to the people” Mat 8:4.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. He shall wash… and be clean — Although…
9. He shall wash… and be clean — Although he has been pronounced clean there remains the completion of the process begun seven days before. God’s works are as perfect as the human conditions and limitations will allow. The soul is as perfectly cleansed when born again as the faith of that soul will admit. Subsequent discovery of inward impurity, and stronger apprehension of the power of the blood of Christ, constitute the perfect conditions of the completed work of sanctification. Yet nothing is more common than the superficial remark that perfect cleansing takes place in regeneration. All the good works of the cleansed leper, after God in the person of the priest took him in hand, are steps of progress toward the final and complete purification.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. On the seventh day, after repeating the cleansing…
9. On the seventh day, after repeating the cleansing processes of the first, he was fit to take part in the service of the sanctuary.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) But it shall be . . . —Better,…
(9) But it shall be . . . —Better, And it shall be. The second stage of purification, which restored the convalescent to the communion of the sanctuary, began on the seventh day, when, as a first act, he had again to shave off the hair of the whole of his body.
Also he shall wash his flesh.—Better, and he shall bathe himself, or his body. The expression “flesh” simply means self, or body, as the Authorised Version rightly translates it in Ecc_2:3; Isa_10:8; Eze_10:12. Besides Num_19:7, the full phrase, “to wash the flesh in water,” occurs eight times, and always in Leviticus (Lev_14:9; Lev_15:13; Lev_15:16; Lev_16:4; Lev_16:24; Lev_16:26; Lev_16:28; Lev_22:6), and is rendered in three different ways in the Authorised Version: by (1) “wash his flesh in water” (Lev_14:9; Lev_15:16; Lev_16:4); by (2) “wash his flesh with water” (Lev_16:24); by (3) “bathe his flesh in water” (Lev_15:13; Lev_16:24; Lev_16:26; Lev_16:28; Num_19:7). When a peculiar ritual phrase designedly deviates in a single section in the original from another phrase which is used to express the same idea (comp, Lev_14:8; Lev_15:5-8; Lev_15:10; Lev_15:12; Lev_15:16; Lev_15:18; Lev_15:21-22; Lev_15:27; Lev_17:15), it is essential that it should be translated by the identical phrase in English. During the second Temple, restored lepers bathed in a chamber at the north-western corner of the Court of the Women, called the “chamber of the lepers.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 9-32. The ceremonies in the second stage of…
Vers. 9-32. The ceremonies in the second stage of cleansing, which restored the late outcast to his home and to his covenant-right, were the following;
1. At the end of seven days he repeated the process of washing, shaving, and bathing.
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2. On the eighth day he brought a lamb for a trespass offering, a leg of oil, a meat offering, a sin offering, and a burnt offering.
3. The priest that officiated at the cleansing presented him and his offerings at the door of the tabernacle.
4. He offered the trespass offering and the log of oil for him.
5. He slew the trespass offering and put some of the blood of it on different parts of the man"s body.
6. He poured some of the oil into his left hand, and having sprinkled some of it seven times before the Lord, he placed some of it on those parts of the man"s body on which the blood had been placed, and poured the rest upon his head.
7. He offered the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the meat offering.
But it shall be on the seventh day. The pause for seven days, followed by placing the blood on the tip of the right ear, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the great toe of the right foot, and the subsequent anointing with off, irresistibly call to mind the ceremonies of the consecration of priests, (Lev_8:35, Lev_8:23, Lev_8:24, Lev_8:12, Lev_8:30) and no doubt they are intended to do so. The whole nation was in a sense a priestly nation, and the restoration of the lapsed member to his rights was therefore a quasi-consecration.
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