Leviticus 14:57
so that it can be known at what time a thing is clean or unclean.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
In Context
56of scars and erupting pustules, of a shining spot, when the appearance is also variegated,
Cross References
Leviticus 10:10And so may you have the knowledge to discern between holy and profane, between polluted and clean.
Deuteronomy 24:8Observe diligently, lest you incur the wound of leprosy. But you shall do whatever the priests of the Levitical stock shall teach you to do, according to what I have instructed them. And you shall fulfill it carefully.
Ezekiel 44:23And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and defiled, and they shall distinguish for them between clean and unclean.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:55-57
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 when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. This is the conclusion of this law concerning the leprosy. There is no repetition of it in Deuteronomy, only a general memorandum given ( Deut. xxiv. 8 ), Take heed in the plague of leprosy. We may see in this law, 1. The gracious care God took of his… Read the whole commentary →