Leviticus 14:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
In Context
2This is the rite for a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest,
Cross References
Leviticus 22:4The man of the offspring of Aaron, who is a leper or who is suffering a flow of seed, shall not eat of those things which have been sanctified to me, until he is healed. Whoever will have touched what is unclean because of the dead, and he whose seed goes out from him, as if from sexual intercourse,
Luke 17:14And when he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that, as they were going, they were cleansed.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:1
The former chapter directed the priests how to convict a leper of ceremonial uncleanness. No prescriptions are given for his cure; but, when God had cured him, the priests are in this chapter directed how to cleanse him. The remedy here is only adapted to the ceremonial part of his disease; but the authority Christ gave to his ministers was to cure the lepers, and so to cleanse them. We have here, I. The solemn declaration of the leper's being clean, with the significant ceremony attending it, ver. 1-9 . II. The… Read the whole commentary →