When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
`When a plague of leprosy is in a man, then he hath been brought in unto the priest,
When a sore [as] of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought unto the priest;
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.
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When the plague of leprosy is in a man,....
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
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
