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Leviticus 13:54

in Leviticus 13

the priest is to order the contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven days.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:

KJV

Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread

on Leviticus 13:53-59

A garment that does not spread is washed and shut up again, and only the part that keeps the mark is torn out. Where the washing works the thing is washed a second time and is clean, so cloth is given a remedy that no man in this chapter was offered. Verse 59 closes the passage as the law of the plague of leprosy, and states its purpose as pronouncing a thing clean, or pronouncing it unclean.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

2Ki 5:27) was a natural disease, which is known in Eastern countries still; while the rules prescribed by the Hebrew legislator for distinguishing the true character and varieties of the disease and which are far superior to the method of treatment now followed in those regions, show the divine wisdom by which he was guided.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He shall shut it up seven days more - To give time for the spreading of the contagion, if it did exist there; that there might be the most unequivocal marks and proofs that the garment was or was not infected.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְצִוָּה֙and he will command

    vetzivahH6680 →494 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וְכִ֨בְּס֔וּand they will wash

    vekhibesuH3526 →51 times

  • אֵ֥ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־[that] which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בּ֖וֹ[is] in <the> it

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  • הַנָּ֑גַעthe plague

    hanaga'H5061 →78 times

  • וְהִסְגִּיר֥וֹand he will shut up it

    vehisgiroH5462 →91 times

  • שִׁבְעַת־seven

    shivat-H7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֖יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • שֵׁנִֽית׃a second

    shenitH8145 →156 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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