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Deuteronomy 24:8

in Deuteronomy 24

In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

KJV

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

This verse in Deuteronomy 24

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The laws concerning it we had, Lev. xiii. They are here said to be commanded to the priests and Levites, and therefore are not repeated in a discourse to the people; but the people are here charged, in case of leprosy, to apply to the priest according to the law, and to abide by his judgment, so far as it agreed with the law and the plain matter of fact.

This site's exposition

When a man hath taken a new wife

on Deuteronomy 24:5-9

The exemptions at 20:5-7 sent home the man who had betrothed a wife and not taken her, and verse 5 adds a full year at home for the man who has. Verses 6 and 7 both price a man's life: the hand mill may not be taken in pledge because he taketh a man's life to pledge, and stealing a man is capital where stealing goods was not, which Exodus 21:16 had already said. The leprosy law itself is not repeated here, only the order to do what the priests teach, and the memory set beside it is Miriam at Numbers 12:10-15. Remember falls fourteen times in this book and three of them stand in this chapter, at verses 9, 18 and 22.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Take heed, in the plague of leprosy,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The plague of leprosy - See on Leviticus 13 (note), and Leviticus 14 (note).

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הִשָּׁ֧מֶרtake heed

    hishamerH8104468 times

  • בְּנֶֽגַע־to [the] plague of

    benega'-H506178 times

  • הַצָּרַ֛עַת<the> serious skin disease

    hatzaraatH6883

  • לִשְׁמֹ֥רto take care

    lishmorH8104468 times

  • מְאֹ֖דexceedingly

    meodH3966300 times

  • וְלַעֲשׂ֑וֹתand to do

    velaasotH62132628 times

  • כְּכֹל֩according to all

    kekholH36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • יוֹר֨וּthey will instruct

    yoruH338480 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֜ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • הַכֹּהֲנִ֧יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548750 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֛םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881291 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • צִוִּיתִ֖םI commanded them

    tzivitimH6680494 times

  • תִּשְׁמְר֥וּyou will take care

    tishmeruH8104468 times

  • לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ סto do

    laasotH62132628 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Mark 1:44

    “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 14:1–32

      Then the LORD said to Moses,

    • Luke 17:14

      When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Matthew 8:4

      Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”

    • 1 Corinthians 10:11

      Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

  • Through

    Luke 17:14

    When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 13:1–46

      Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

    • Luke 5:14

      “Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

    • 2 Kings 5:14

      So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child,…

  • Through

    Leviticus 14:2

    “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.

    it leads to

    • Luke 5:12–14

      While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.