1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2When a man has a rising in the skin of his flesh, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it shall become in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought in to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. 3And the priest shall look upon the plague in the skin of the flesh; and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy, and the priest shall look upon him and shall pronounce him unclean. 4And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the plague seven days. 5And the priest shall look on him on the seventh day, and, behold, if the plague stays in its appearance, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven more days. 6And the priest shall look upon him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague has become dim, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall account him clean; it is a scab, and he shall wash his garments and shall be clean. 7But if the scab spreads greatly in the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, then he shall be seen a second time by the priest. 8And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab has spread in the skin, the priest shall account him unclean; it is leprosy. 9When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought in to the priest. 10And the priest shall look, and, behold, if a white rising is in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and a living flesh is in the swelling, 11it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall account him unclean; he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. 12And if the leprosy breaks out greatly on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the plague, from his head even to his feet, to all that appears to the priest’s eyes, 13then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall account the one having the plagues clean; it has all turned white; he is clean. 14And in the day living flesh is seen in him, he is unclean. 15And the priest shall look on the living flesh and shall pronounce him unclean; the living flesh is unclean; it is leprosy. 16Or when the living flesh turns back and shall be turned to white, then he shall come in to the priest; 17and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, the plague has turned to white; the priest shall pronounce the plague-spot clean; he is clean. 18And when the flesh has a boil in its skin, and it has been healed, 19and a white rising has replaced the boil, or a bright white spot, very red, a reddish white, then it shall be seen by the priest. 20And the priest shall look; and, behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall account him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy; it has broken out in a boil. 21But if the priest looks at it; and, behold, there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin, and has become dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 22And if it spreads greatly in the skin, then the priest shall account him unclean; it is a plague. 23And if in its place the bright spot is stayed, it has not spread; it is an inflamed boil, and the priest shall account him clean. 24Or if there is flesh in which the skin has a hot burning, and the raw flesh of the burning becomes a bright white spot, being very red or white; 25and the priest shall look on it; and, behold, the hair has turned white in the bright spot, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall account him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy. 26But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no lower than the other skin, but is somewhat faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 27And the priest shall look at him the seventh day. And if it is spread abroad very much in the skin, the priest shall account him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 28And if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but is somewhat faded, it is a swelling of the burn and the priest shall account him clean. for it is a scar of the burning. 29And if a man or a woman has in them a plague in the head or in the beard, 30then the priest shall look on the plague. And, behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and a thin shining hair in it, the priest shall account him unclean; it is a scab, a leprosy on the head or beard. 31And when the priest looks on the plague of the scab; and, behold, it is not in sight deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the plagued one with the scab seven days. 32And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague. And, behold, if the scab has not spread, and there is no shining hair in it, and the appearance of the scab is not deeper than the skin, 33then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scab. And the priest shall shut up the one who has the scab a second seven days. 34And the priest shall look on the scab on the seventh day. And, behold, if the scab has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall account him clean. And he shall wash his garments, and shall be clean. 35And if the scab has spread further in the skin after his cleansing, 36and the priest has looked on him; and, behold, the scab has spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the shining, yellow hair; he is unclean. 37But if in his eyes the scab has stabilized, and black hair has sprung up in it, the scab has been healed; he is clean. And the priest shall account him clean. 38And when a man or a woman has bright spots, white bright spots, in the skin of their flesh, 39and the priest has seen it; and, behold there are pale white spots in the skin of their flesh, it is a pale spot springing up in the skin; he is clean. 40And when a man’s head grows bald, he is bald, he is clean. 41And if his head grows bald from the corner of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; he is clean. 42And if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish white plague, it is a leprosy breaking out in the bald head, or in the bald forehead. 43And the priest shall look on him, and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy, in the skin of the flesh, 44he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall account him unclean; his plague is in his head. 45And the leper who has the plague in him, his garments shall be torn, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover the upper lip; and he shall call out, Unclean! Unclean! 46And the days that the plague shall be in him, he is unclean; he shall live alone, he is unclean; his dwelling shall be at the outside of the camp. 47And if there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen, 48or in the warp, or in the woof, or of linen, or of wool, or in leather, or in any work of leather, 49and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is a plague of leprosy; and it shall be seen by the priest. 50And the priest shall look on the plague, and shall shut up the plagued thing seven days. 51And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. And if the plague has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather, of all that is made of skin for use, the plague is a corroding leprosy; it is unclean. 52And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is; for it is a corroding leprosy; it shall be burned with fire. 53And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, 54then the priest shall command, and they shall wash that in which the plague is. And he shall shut it up a second seven days. 55And the priest shall look on that in which the plague is after it has been washed. And, behold, if the plague has not changed its appearance, and if the plague has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it with fire; it is eaten away in its inside or in its outside. 56And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague has become pale after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the leather, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. 57And if it is still seen in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn it with fire, that in which the plague is. 58And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or anything of leather which you shall wash when the plague has been taken off them, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean. 59This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or of the warp, or of the woof, or of anything of leather, to account 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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