But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
`And in the day of raw flesh being seen in him he is unclean;
And on the day when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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But when raw flesh appeareth in him,.... Between the white spots, scabs, or swellings, or in the midst of them: he shall be unclean; be pronounced unclean, and be subject to all the prescriptions of the law concerning lepers.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Several of these characteristics, taken separately, belong to other blemishes of the skin as well; so that none of them was to be taken alone, and it was only when the whole of them concurred that the Jewish priest, in his capacity of physician, was to pronounce the disease a malignant leprosy.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
In it - That is in the place where the appearance of leprosy was, when the flesh was partly changed into a whiter colour, and partly kept its natural colour, this variety of colours was an evidence of the leprosy, as one and the same colour continuing, was a sign of soundness.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
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The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
