And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house,
and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
and for the leprosy of garments, and of houses,
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.
Voices2
And for the leprosy of a garment,.... Of which see Lev 13:47, and of an house; largely treated of in this chapter, Lev 14:34.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
As a house could not contract any impurity in the sight of God, the "atonement" which the priest was to make for it must either have a reference to the sins of its occupants or to the ceremonial process appointed for its purification, the very same as that observed for a leprous person.
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.
The verses this one reaches1
If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,
