Leviticus 13:46

He is not allowed to be with other people as long as he has the disease. He must live alone, outside the camp.’”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

In Context

45‘Anyone who has a contagious skin disease must wear torn clothes and not comb his hair. When he is near other people, he must cover the lower part to his face and call out, “Do not come near me! I have a contagious skin disease!”

47“Sometimes a person’s clothing gets mildew on it. It may be clothing that is woven from wool or made from linen or from leather.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:2“Tell this to the Israeli people: ‘You must send away from your ◄camp/area where you have your tents► any man or woman who has leprosy and anyone who has a discharge of some fluid from his body, and anyone who has become unacceptable to God because of having touched a corpse.

2 Kings 7:3That day there were four men who had ◄leprosy/a dreaded skin disease► who were sitting outside the gate of Samaria city. They said to each other, “◄Why should we wait here until we die?/ It is ridiculous for us to wait here until we die.► [RHQ]

2 Chronicles 26:21King Uzziah had leprosy until he died. And because he had leprosy, he lived in a house that was not near other houses, and he was not allowed to enter the courtyard of the temple. His son Jotham supervised the palace and ruled the people of Judah.

Lamentations 1:1Jerusalem was once full of people, but now it is deserted. Once it was honored by people all over the world, but now it is grieving/abandoned like [SIM] a widow. Once it was honored like [MET] a princess is honored among the nations, but now we who live here have become slaves.

Luke 17:12As they entered one village, ten lepers came near the road. Because lepers were not permitted to come near other people, they stood at some distance

1 Corinthians 5:9In the previous letter that I wrote to you, I said that you should not associate with sexually immoral people.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:39-47

38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; 39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean. 40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. 41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean. 42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald… Read the whole commentary →

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