Leviticus 13:1

And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,

In Context

2A man, in the skin of whose flesh there may be an abscess, or pustule, or brightness, and it be in the skin of his flesh like a stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought unto Aharon the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:8Take heed, in the plague of leprosy, to observe and perform entirely all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; as I have commanded them, you shall observe to do.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:1

The next ceremonial uncleanness is that of the leprosy, concerning which the law was very large and particular; we have the discovery of it in this chapter, and the cleansing of the leper in the next. Scarcely any one thing in all the levitical law takes up so much room as this. I. Rules are here given by which the priest must judge whether the man had the leprosy or no, according as the symptom was that appeared. 1. If it was a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, ver. 1-17 . 2. If it was a bile, ver. 18-23 . 3.… Read the whole commentary →

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