“ To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. ”
11 - 15. Ritual Cleanliness and Uncleanliness. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1-32 , Purgation for skin...
To teach. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and to", thus preserving the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this member r (verses: Leviticus 14:54-57...
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
This is the law, &c.— These verses contain a recapitulation of this and the former chapter, which, however they may be despised by some, yet discover to us the goodness of God towards the Israe...
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because t...
The Purification of the Leper. The Leprosy of Houses When a leper has been cured of his plague, and has satisfied the priest that his cure is complete, he is required to go through a ceremonial pu...
To teach when it is unclean. — This verse is intimately connected with Leviticus 14:54 , viz.: “This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy... to afford instruction in the day of uncleanne...
The possibility of the restoration of a leper to health was recognized and provision was made accordingly. In the case of the individual, the ceremony was elaborate. The priest must first visit him w...
The law concerning the leprosy of an house is the same as that respecting an individual; and the same cleansing must be adopted. Nations and families in this respect, come under the same character. F...
To teach when [it is] unclean, and when it is clean ,.... A man, his garment, or his house; for it respects them all, as Aben Ezra observes; which was the business of the priests to teach men, and t...
To teach when it is unclean and when it is clean To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. Upon the whole, we may see in these laws the religious care we ought to t...
RESTORING OF A LEPER (vv. 1-20) Even a case of leprosy may be healed, though this is not frequently seen in the Old Testament. Miriam's leprosy was healed very soon after her infliction ( Numbers...
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall, 55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house, 56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: 57...
To teach; to direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priest's power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might disc...
Final Summary. Leviticus 14:54-57 “This is the law for all manner of plague of leprous disease, even for an itch, and for the mould of a garment, and for a house, and for a lump, and for a sca...
Leprosy Cleansed SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 14:2 .—In the day of his cleansing. Remedy and respite came to the pitiable leper. Although his case seemed forlorn and dismal—unclean, and an outc...
Leviticus 14:3 . The plague of leprosy. This loathsome disease rendered the body torpid, and severely depressed the spirits, as is affirmed by our learned travellers in the east. It commences with...
Leprosy in a house. Leprosy of house and garments (see also Leviticus 13:49 ):--Few subjects have proved more perplexing to the student of Scripture than this. That human dwellings and garment...
EXPOSITION THE LEPROSY OF A HOUSE , AND ITS CLEANSING ( Leviticus 14:33-3 ). The subject of leprosy in houses must be regarded from the same point of view as that of leprosy in clot...
Leprosy in a House
Deuteronomy 24:8 ; Ezekiel 44:23 ; Jeremiah 15:19 ; Leviticus 10:10
To teach — To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priests power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might di...