Leviticus 13:18

When a boil comes up on someone's skin and then it heals,

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The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,

In Context

17The priest will inspect them again, and if the wound has turned white, the priest is to declare the person clean; then they are clean.

19and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears in its place, they must show themselves to the priest.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:9It will spread like fine dust over the whole country of Egypt, and open sores will break out on people and animals throughout the land.”

Leviticus 13:25the priest must inspect it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot seems to be more than something on the surface, it is a serious skin disease that has infected the burn, and the priest who inspects it will declare the person unclean. It is an infectious skin disease.

Job 2:7Then Satan left the Lord's presence and inflicted Job with horrible skin sores from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

Isaiah 38:21Isaiah had said, “Prepare a dressing of figs and spread it on the skin sores so he may recover.”

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:2-18

The Law Concerning Leprosy. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: 3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague… Read the whole commentary →

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