1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 2When a man has on the skin of his flesh a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his flesh like a leprous sore, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. 3The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the flesh; and if the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a leprous sore. Then the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean. 4And if the bright spot is white on the skin of his flesh, and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the one who has the sore seven days. 5And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; and behold, if the sore appears to be as it was, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall shut him up another seven days. 6And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the sore has faded, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 7But if the scab should at all spread over the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again. 8And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy. 9When the leprous sore is on a person, then he shall be brought to the priest. 10And the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the swelling on the skin is white, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, 11it is an old leprosy on the skin of his flesh. The priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. 12And if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the sore, from his head to his foot, whatever is seen by the priest's eyes, 13then the priest shall consider; and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the sore clean. It has all turned white. He is clean. 14But in the day raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean. 15And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean; for the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy. 16Or if the raw flesh returns and has changed to white again, he shall come to the priest. 17And the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the sore has returned to white, then the priest shall pronounce the sore clean. He is clean. 18If the flesh has a boil in the skin, and it is healed, 19and in place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be seen by the priest; 20and if, when the priest sees it, behold, it appears deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore which has broken out of the boil. 21But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days; 22and if it should spread abroad over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague. 23But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 24Or if the skin of the flesh is burned by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn develops a bright spot, reddish-white or white, 25then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair of the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore. 26But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in the bright spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 27And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread abroad over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore. 28But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread on the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn. The priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn. 29If a man or woman has a sore on the head or in the beard, 30then the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if it appears deeper than the skin, and there is in it thin yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scaly leprosy of the head or beard. 31But if the priest examines the scaly sore, and behold, it does not appear deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the one who has the scall seven days. 32And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the sore; and behold, if the scall has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the scall does not appear deeper than the skin, 33he shall shave himself, but the scall he shall not shave. And the priest shall shut up the one who has the scall another seven days. 34On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scall; and behold, if the scall has not spread over the skin, and does not appear deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean. 35But if the scall should spread abroad over the skin after his cleansing, 36then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scall has spread over the skin, the priest shall not look for yellow hair. He is unclean. 37But if the scall appears to have come to a standstill, and black hair has grown up in it, the scall has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 38If a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the flesh, white bright spots, 39then the priest shall look; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of the flesh are dull white, it is a skin spot that grows on the skin. He is clean. 40As for the man whose hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. 41He whose hair has fallen from his forehead, he is bald on the forehead, but he is clean. 42And if there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead. 43And the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the flesh, 44he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall pronounce to declare him unclean; his plague is on his head. 45And the leper on whom the plague is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bared; and he shall cover his mustache, and call out, Unclean! Unclean! 46He shall be unclean. All the days he has the plague he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp. 47And if a garment has a leprous spot in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment, 48whether it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, whether in leather or in anything made of leather, 49and if the spot is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a leprous spot and shall be shown to the priest. 50The priest shall examine the spot and shut up that which has the spot seven days. 51And he shall examine the spot on the seventh day. If the spot has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, in the leather or in anything made of leather, the spot is an active leprosy. It is unclean. 52He shall therefore burn that garment in which is the plague, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, for it is an active leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire. 53And if the priest examines it, and behold, the spot has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, 54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the spot; and he shall shut it up another seven days. 55And the priest shall examine the spot after it has been washed; and indeed if the spot has not changed its color, though the spot has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, whether the damage is outside or inside. 56If the priest examines it, and behold, the spot has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, whether out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leather. 57And if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn with fire that in which is the plague. 58And if you wash the garment, either warp or woof, or whatever is made of leather, if the spot has gone from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean. 59This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or in anything made of leather, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 Lev 13:1 The laws and tokens whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy.
Lev 13:1 2 rising. or, swelling. a scab.
Lev 14:56 Deut 28:27 Isa 3:17the plague of leprosy.
Tzaraâth, the Leprosy, from the Greek [lepra,] from [lepis,] a scale; so called, because in this disease the body is covered with thin white scales, so as to give it the appearance of snow. The leprosy is a dreadful, contagious disorder, common in Egypt and Syria, and generally manifests itself at first in the manner described in the text. Its commencement is imperceptible; there appearing only a few reddish spots on the skin, which are not attended with pain or any other symptom, but cannot be removed. It increases imperceptibly, and continues for some years to be more and more manifest. The spots become larger, spread over the whole skin, and are sometimes rather raised, though generally flat. When it increases the upper part of the nose swells, the nostrils distend, the nose becomes soft, swellings appear on the under jaws, the eyebrows are elevated, the ears grow thick, the ends of the fingers, feet, and toes, swell, the nails grow scaly, the joints of the hands and feet separate, the palms of hands and soles of the feet are ulcerated, and in its last stage the patient becomes horrible, and falls to pieces.
Lev 14:3 Lev 14:35 Exod 4:6 Exod 4:7 Num 12:10 Num 12:12 2Sam 3:29 2Kgs 5:1 2Kgs 5:27 2Chr 26:19 -
2Chr 26:21 Isa 1:6he shall.
Deut 17:8 Deut 17:9 Deut 24:8 Mal 2:7 Matt 8:4 Mark 1:44 Luke 5:14 Luke 17:14 3 shall look.
Lev 13:2 Lev 10:10 Ezek 44:23 Hag 2:11 Mal 2:7 Acts 20:28 Rom 3:19 Rom 3:20 Rom 7:7 Heb 13:7 Rev 2:23turned.
Ezek 16:30 Hos 7:9deeper.
Gen 13:3 2Tim 2:16 2Tim 2:17 2Tim 3:13pronounce.
Matt 16:19 Matt 18:17 Matt 18:18 John 20:23 Rom 3:19 Rom 3:20 1Cor 5:4 -
1Cor 5:6 2Thess 3:14 2Thess 3:15 1Tim 1:20 4 shut up.
Num 12:15 Deut 13:14 Ezek 44:10 1Cor 4:5 1Tim 5:24 5 Lev 13:5 6 pronounce.
Isa 11:3 Isa 11:4 Isa 42:3 Rom 14:1 Jude 1:22 Jude 1:23a scab.
Lev 13:2 Deut 32:5 Jas 3:2wash.
Lev 11:25 Lev 11:28 Lev 11:40 Lev 14:8 1Kgs 8:38 1Kgs 8:45 Ps 19:12 Pro 20:9 Eccl 7:20 John 13:8 -
John 13:10 2Cor 7:1 Heb 9:10 Heb 10:22 1John 1:7 -
1John 1:9 7 Lev 13:27 Lev 13:35 Lev 13:36 Ps 38:3 Isa 1:5 Isa 1:6 Rom 6:12 -
Rom 6:14 2Tim 2:16 2Tim 2:17 8 Lev 13:3 Matt 15:7 Matt 15:8 Acts 8:21 Phil 3:18 Phil 3:19 2Pet 2:19 9 Lev 13:9 10 shall see him.
Lev 13:3 Lev 13:4 Num 12:10 -
Num 12:12 2Kgs 5:27 2Chr 26:19 2Chr 26:20quick raw flesh. Heb. the quickening of living flesh.
Lev 13:14 Lev 13:15 Lev 13:24 Pro 12:1 Amos 5:10 John 3:19 John 3:20 John 7:7 11 Lev 13:11 12 cover all.
1Kgs 8:38 Job 40:4 Job 42:6 Isa 64:6 John 16:8 John 16:9 Rom 7:14 1John 1:8 -
1John 1:10 13 if the leprosy. It may seem strange that the partial leper should be pronounced unclean, and the person totally covered with the disease clean. This was probably owing to a different species or stage of the disease; the partial being contagious, the total not. That there are two different species, or degrees, of the disease described here, is sufficiently evident: in one, the person was all covered with a white enamelled scurf; in the other, there was a quick raw flesh in the risings. On this account, the one was deemed unclean, or contagious, the other not; for contact with the quick raw flesh would be more likely to communicate the disease, than the touch of the hard dry scurf. The ichor proceeding from the former, when brought into contact with the flesh of another, would soon be taken into constitution by means of the absorbent vessels; but where the surface was perfectly dry; the absorbent vessels of another, coming in contact with the diseased man, could imbibe nothing, and there was consequently but little or no danger of infection. This is the learned Dr. Mead's view of the subject; who thus accounts for the circumstances mentioned in the text.
he is clean.
Isa 64:6 John 9:41 14 Lev 13:10 15 Lev 13:15 16 Rom 7:14 -
Rom 7:24 Gal 1:14 -
Gal 1:16 Phil 3:6 -
Phil 3:8 1Tim 1:13 -
1Tim 1:15 17 Lev 13:17 18 a boil.
Exod 9:9 Exod 15:26 2Kgs 20:7 Job 2:7 Ps 38:3 -
Ps 38:7 Isa 38:21 19 Lev 13:19 20 in sight.
Lev 13:3 Matt 12:45 John 5:14 2Pet 2:20 21 shut him.
1Cor 5:5 22 a plague. i,e., "The plague of leprosy."
Lev 13:22 23 Gen 38:26 2Sam 12:13 2Chr 19:2 2Chr 19:3 Job 34:31 Job 34:32 Job 40:4 Job 40:5 Pro 28:13 Matt 26:75 2Cor 2:7 Gal 6:1 1Pet 4:2 1Pet 4:3 24 a hot burning. Heb. a burning of fire.
Isa 3:24This is supposed to state the case of such as had been hurt by fire; which would leave a scar, in which the leprosy might appear, and which was to be distinguished by the rules here given.
25 turned white.
Lev 13:4 Lev 13:18 -
Lev 13:20 26 then the priest.
Lev 13:4 Lev 13:5 Lev 13:23 27 it is the plague of leprosy. See on ver.
Lev 13:2 28 Lev 13:28 29 1Kgs 8:38 1Kgs 12:28 2Chr 6:29 Ps 53:4 Isa 1:5 Isa 5:20 Isa 9:15 Mic 3:11 Matt 6:23 Matt 13:14 Matt 13:15 John 16:2 John 16:3 Acts 22:3 Acts 22:4 Acts 26:9 Acts 26:10 2Cor 4:3 2Cor 4:4 2Thess 2:11 2Thess 2:12 30 scall.
Lev 13:34 -
Lev 13:37 Lev 14:54 31 seven days.
Lev 13:4 -
Lev 13:6 32 yellow hair.
Lev 13:30 Matt 23:5 Luke 18:9 -
Luke 18:12 Rom 2:23 33 Lev 13:33 34 the seventh.
1John 4:1 Jude 1:22 Rev 2:2be not.
Lev 13:23and he shall.
Lev 13:6 35 Lev 13:7 Lev 13:27 2Tim 2:16 2Tim 2:17 2Tim 3:13 36 Lev 13:36 37 Lev 13:37 38 Lev 13:38 39 if the bright.
Eccl 7:20 Rom 7:22 -
Rom 7:25 Jas 3:2a freckled spot. The word
bohak, from the Syriac
behak, to be white, or shining, here rendered "a freckled spot," is used by the Arabs to denote a kind of leprosy, of which Niebuhr says, "
Bohak is neither contagious nor dangerous. A black boy at Mocha, who was affected with this eruption, had here and there upon his body white spots. We were told that the use of sulphur had relieved this boy for a time, but had not entirely removed the disease." He adds subsequently from Forskal's papers, "The Arabs call a sort of leprosy, in which some little spots shew themselves here and there on the body,
behaq; and it is without doubt the same as is named
bohak, (Le ch. 13
Lev 13:1). They believe it to be so far from contagious, that one may sleep with a person affected without danger." "On the 15th day of May, 1765, I myself first saw the
Bohak leprosy in a Jew at Mocha. The spots in this disease are of an unequal size. They do not shine; are not perceptibly higher than the skin; and do not change the colour of the hair. Their colour is an obscure white, inclining to red. The rest of the skin of the patient was darker than that of the people of the country in general; but the spots were not so white as the skin of an European, when not sun-burnt. The spots in this leprosy do not appear on the hands, or near the navel, but on the neck and face, yet not on that part where the hair grows thick. They gradually spread, and continue sometimes only about two months, but in some cases one or two years, and then disappear by degrees, of themselves. This disorder is neither contagious nor hereditary, nor does it occasion any inconvenience." Hence a person infected with the
bohak is declared clean.
40 hair is fallen off his head. Heb. head is pilled.
Lev 13:41 Song 5:11 Rom 6:12 Rom 6:19 Rom 8:10 Gal 4:13 41 Lev 13:41 42 Lev 13:42 43 Lev 13:43 44 utterly unclean.
Job 36:14 Matt 6:23 2Pet 2:1 2Pet 2:2 2John 1:8 -
2John 1:10his plague.
Isa 1:5 45 his clothes.
Gen 37:29 2Sam 13:19 Job 1:20 Jer 3:25 Jer 36:24 Joel 2:13and his head.
Lev 10:6 Lev 21:10put.
Ezek 24:17 Ezek 24:22 Mic 3:7Unclean.
Job 42:6 Ps 51:3 Ps 51:5 Isa 6:5 Isa 52:11 Isa 64:6 Lam 4:15 Luke 5:8 Luke 7:6 Luke 7:7 Luke 17:12 46 the days.
Pro 30:12without.
Num 5:2 Num 12:14 Num 12:15 2Kgs 7:3 2Kgs 15:5 2Chr 26:21 Lam 1:1 Lam 1:8 1Cor 5:5 1Cor 5:9 -
1Cor 5:13 2Thess 3:6 2Thess 3:14 1Tim 6:5 Heb 12:15 Heb 12:16 Rev 21:27 Rev 22:15 47 The garment. This leprosy in garments appears so strange to us, that it has induced some, with Bp. Patrick, to consider it as an extraordinary punishment inflicted by God upon the Israelites, as a sign of his high displeasure; while others consider the leprosy in clothes (and also houses) as having no relation to the leprosy in man. When Michaelis was considering the subject, he was told by a dealer in wool, that the wool of sheep which die of a disease, if it has not been shorn from the animal while living, is unfit to manufacture cloth, and liable to something like what Moses here describes, and which he imagines to be the plague of leprosy in garments. The whole account, however, as Dr. A. Clarke observes, seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by the contagion of the real leprosy; which it is probable was occasioned by a species of
animacula, or vermin, burrowing in the skin, which we know to be the cause of the itch; these, by breeding in the garments, must necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i.e., corrode a portion of the finer parts, after the manner of moths, for their nourishment. The infection of garments has frequently been known to cause the worst species of scarlet fever, and even the plague; and those infected with
psora, or itch animal, have communicated the disease even in six or seven years after the infection.
Isa 3:16 -
Isa 3:24 Isa 59:6 Isa 64:6 Ezek 16:16 Rom 13:12 Eph 4:22 Col 3:3 Jude 1:23 48 thing made of. Heb. work of.
Lev 13:51 Deut 8:11 Jude 1:23 Rev 3:4 49 thing of skin. Heb. vessel, or instrument. it is.
Lev 13:2 50 Lev 13:50 51 fretting leprosy.
Lev 14:44 52 burn.
Lev 11:33 Lev 11:35 Deut 7:25 Deut 7:26 Isa 30:22 Acts 19:19 Acts 19:20fretting leprosy.
Lev 14:44 Lev 14:45 53 Lev 13:53 54 Lev 13:54 55 after.
Ezek 24:13 Heb 6:4 -
Heb 6:8 2Pet 1:9 2Pet 2:20 -
2Pet 2:22it be bare within or without. Heb. it be bald in the headthereof, or in the forehead thereof.
56 Lev 13:56 57 shalt burn.
Isa 33:14 Matt 3:12 Matt 22:7 Matt 25:41 Rev 21:8 Rev 21:27 58 be washed.
2Kgs 5:10 2Kgs 5:14 Ps 51:2 2Cor 7:1 2Cor 12:8 Heb 9:10 Rev 1:5The plague of leprosy was inflicted immediately from the hand of God, and came not from natural causes, as other diseases; and therefore must be managed according to a divine law. Miriam's leprosy, and Gehazi's and King Uzziah's were all the punishments of particular sins; and if generally it was so, no marvel there was so much care taken to distinguish it from a common distemper, that none might be looked upon as lying under this extraordinary token of Divine displeasure, but those that really were so.
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