Leviticus 14:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
In Context
2This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed: he shall be brought to the priest:
Cross References
Leviticus 22:4The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead, and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation,
Luke 17:14Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.
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 →