Leviticus 13:46
in Leviticus 13As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Leviticus 13
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Dwell alone - More properly, dwell apart; that is, separated from the people. Though thus excluded from general contact with society, it is not likely that lepers ceased to be objects of sympathy and kindness, such as they now are in those Christian and Moslem countries in which the leprosy prevails. That they associated together in the holy land, as they do at present, is evident from 2Ki 7:3; Luk 17:12. It has been conjectured that a habitation was provided for them outside Jerusalem, on the hill Gareb (Bezetha), which is mentioned only in Jer 31:
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), associating with none but those that were lepers like himself. When king Uzziah became a leper, he was banished from his palace, and dwelt in a separate house, 2 Chron. xxvi. This typified the purity which ought to be preserved in the gospel church, by the solemn and authoritative exclusion of scandalous sinners, that hate to be reformed, from the communion of the faithful.
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He shall dwell alone - Partly for his humiliation; partly to prevent the infection of others; and partly to shew the danger of converse with spiritual lepers, or notorious sinners.
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled,....
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יְמֵ֞י | yemei | [the] days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֨ר | ʾasher | <of> which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הַנֶּ֥גַע | hanega' | the plague | H5061 → | 78 times |
| בּ֛וֹ | bo | [is] on <the> him | ||
| יִטְמָ֖א | yitma' | he will be unclean | H2930 → | 162 times |
| טָמֵ֣א | tame' | [is] unclean | H2931 → | 88 times |
| ה֑וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| בָּדָ֣ד | badad | alone | H910 → | |
| יֵשֵׁ֔ב | yeshev | he will dwell | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| מִח֥וּץ | michutz | [will be] from [the] outside | H2351 → | 164 times |
| לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖ה | lamachaneh | of the camp | H4264 → | 215 times |
| מוֹשָׁבֽוֹ׃ ס | moshavo | dwelling his | H4186 → | 44 times |
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
יְמֵ֞י[the] days
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
אֲשֶׁ֨ר<of> which
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
הַנֶּ֥גַעthe plague
hanega'H5061 →78 times
בּ֛וֹ[is] on <the> him
bo
יִטְמָ֖אhe will be unclean
yitma'H2930 →162 times
טָמֵ֣א[is] unclean
tame'H2931 →88 times
ה֑וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
בָּדָ֣דalone
badadH910 →
יֵשֵׁ֔בhe will dwell
yeshevH3427 →1079 times
מִח֥וּץ[will be] from [the] outside
michutzH2351 →164 times
לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הof the camp
lamachanehH4264 →215 times
מוֹשָׁבֽוֹ׃ סdwelling his
moshavoH4186 →44 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
it leads to
- Leviticus 13:45–46
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
- Numbers 5:2–4
“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
- 2 Kings 7:4
If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go…
- Leviticus 13:45–46
Through
2 Kings 15:5And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people…
it leads to
- Numbers 12:14
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days;…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 12:10
As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
- 2 Samuel 8:15
Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
- Psalms 72:1
Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.
- Job 34:19
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
- Numbers 12:14
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.