Leviticus 14:47

That he shave his hair after his vow is accomplished, Numbers 6:18. 56. That every man perform his vows to God, Deuteronomy 23:23; Numbers 30:2. 57. That judgment be made of the obligation of vows according to the law, Num. 30. 9. The fourth family of affirmative commands respects CLEANNESS AND UNCLEANNESS, whereof they reckon up eighteen precepts:—1. He that touches that which dies of itself is unclean, Leviticus 11:39. 2. Eight kinds of creeping things are unclean, Leviticus 11:29, 30. 3. Sundry things that may be eaten are yet capable of uncleanness, Leviticus 11:34. 4. A woman in her natural disease is unclean, Leviticus 15:19; 5. And she that is delivered of a child, Leviticus 12:2. 6. The leper is unclean, and defileth other things, Leviticus 13:2, 3. 7. A cloth infected with leprosy is unclean, Leviticus 13:47–51; 8. And an house likewise, Leviticus 14:35–44. 9. He that hath an issue is unclean, Leviticus 15:2; 10. And to the same purpose, Leviticus 15:16; 11. And in a woman, verse 25. 12. A dead body is unclean, and defileth, Numbers 19:14. 13. All cleansing must be accompanied with bathing or washing, Leviticus 15:16. 14. The cleansing of the leper must be with cedar, hyssop, scarlet wool, and the other ceremonies, Leviticus 14:2–32. 15. The leper must shave all the hair off his head on the seventh day, Leviticus 14:9. 16. The leper must not go abroad but with the signs of his leprosy, Leviticus 13:45. 17. That the red heifer be burned according to order, Numbers 19:2–10. 18.

. And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird,.... See Gill on "Leviticus 14:4". Leviticus 14:53 Ver. 53. But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields,.... See Gill on "Leviticus 14:7". Leviticus 14:54 Ver. 54. This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall. The leprosy in general in the bodies of men, and of that in particular which was on the head and beard, and went by the name of the scall, Leviticus 13:29. In Leviticus 14:54 is a recapitulation of the several laws and rules relating to leprosy of all kinds, delivered in this and the preceding chapter. Leviticus 14:55 Ver. 55. And for the leprosy of a garment,.... Of which see Leviticus 13:47; and of an house; largely treated of in this chapter, Leviticus 14:34. Leviticus 14:56 Ver. 56. And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot. Which were three sorts of leprosy in the skin of man's flesh; See Gill on "Leviticus 13:2". Leviticus 14:57 Ver. 57. 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 they by the above laws and rules were instructed how to judge of cases, and by which they were capable of pronouncing persons or things clean or unclean: this [is] the law of leprosy; respecting every sort of it, and which is very remarkably enlarged upon.   John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible.

14:33-53 The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it remain in the house, the whole must be pulled down. The owner had better be without a dwelling, than live in one that was infected. The leprosy of sin ruins families and churches. Thus sin is so interwoven with the human body, that it must be taken down by death.

And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes,.... Which is more than bare entrance into it, and might be supposed the more to be infected by it, and therefore obliged to the washing of himself, and his garments: and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes; if he stayed no longer than while he ate half a piece of wheaten bread he was clean, but not if he stayed so long as to eat a like quantity of barley bread, and sat down and ate it with food (r). (r) Misn. Negaim, c. 13. sect. 8, 9.

34-48. leprosy in a house—This law was prospective, not to come into operation till the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan. The words, "I put the leprosy," has led many to think that this plague was a judicial infliction from heaven for the sins of the owner; while others do not regard it in this light, it being common in Scripture to represent God as doing that which He only permits in His providence to be done. Assuming it to have been a natural disease, a new difficulty arises as to whether we are to consider that the house had become infected by the contagion of leprous occupiers; or that the leprosy was in the house itself. It is evident that the latter was the true state of the case, from the furniture being removed out of it on the first suspicion of disease on the walls. Some have supposed that the name of leprosy was analogically applied to it by the Hebrews, as we speak of cancer in trees when they exhibit corrosive effects similar to what the disease so named produces on the human body; while others have pronounced it a mural efflorescence or species of mildew on the wall apt to be produced in very damp situations, and which was followed by effects so injurious to health as well as to the stability of a house, particularly in warm countries, as to demand the attention of a legislator. Moses enjoined the priests to follow the same course and during the same period of time for ascertaining the true character of this disease as in human leprosy.

If found leprous, the infected parts were to be removed. If afterwards there appeared a risk of the contagion spreading, the house was to be destroyed altogether and the materials removed to a distance. The stones were probably rough, unhewn stones, built up without cement in the manner now frequently used in fences and plastered over, or else laid in mortar. The oldest examples of architecture are of this character. The very same thing has to be done still with houses infected with mural salt. The stones covered with the nitrous incrustation must be removed, and if the infected wall is suffered to remain, it must be plastered all over anew.

Whoever went into the house during the time that it was closed, became unclean till the evening and had to wash himself; but whoever slept or ate therein during this time, was to wash his clothes, and of course was unclean till the evening. אתו הסגּיר ( Leviticus 14:46 ) may be a perfect tense, and a relative clause dependent upon ימי, or it may be an infinitive for הסגּיר as in Leviticus 14:43 .

[Reformed Biblical] us 14:42 Leviticus 14:43 Leviticus 14:44 Leviticus 14:45 Leviticus 14:46 Leviticus 14:47 Leviticus 14:48 Leviticus 14:49 Leviticus 14:50 Leviticus 14:51 Leviticus 14:52 Leviticus 14:53 Leviticus 14:54 Leviticus 14:55 Leviticus 14:56 Leviticus 14:57 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 discern no less than the priest. ## Leviticus 15:1 LEVITICUS CHAPTER 15 Uncleanness by issues, and their putrefaction and expiation, Lev_15:1-15. Of flowing seed, its uncleanness, Lev_15:16-18. Of women: their courses ordinarily, Lev_15:19-24; extraordinary, Lev_15:25-28. Their expiation, Lev_15:29,30. An exhortation to cleanness, lest they die, and that they pollute not the tabernacle, Lev_15:31. A repetition of the whole, Lev_15:32,33. Leviticus 15:2 His secret parts, called ## flesh, Lev_6:10 12:3 Eze_16:26 23:20. Leviticus 15:3 Or if it have run, and been stopped in great measure, either by the grossness of the humour, or by some obstruction in parts that it cannot run freely, as it did, but only droppeth. Leviticus 15:4 ## Every thing, Heb. vessel , by which the Hebrews understand all sorts of household stuff.