Leviticus 14:57

to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”

BSB

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KJV

To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

ASV

to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

YLT

to direct in the day of being unclean, and in the day of being clean; this is the law of the leprosy.'

DBT

to teach when there is uncleanness, and when it is purified: this is the law of leprosy.

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To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean,.... A man, his garment, or his house; for it respects them all, as Aben Ezra observes; which was the business of the priests to teach men, and they by the above laws and rules were instructed how to judge of cases, and by which they were capable of pronouncing persons or things clean or unclean: this is the law of leprosy; respecting every sort of it, and which is very remarkably enlarged upon.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

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

To teach - To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priests power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might discern no less than the priest.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

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Leviticus 10:10
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Ezekiel 44:23
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
Deuteronomy 24:8
In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

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About this book

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be…
leads to
- Ezekiel 22:26
  Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 44:23
  They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Zechariah 3:7
  “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I…
- Luke 21:15
  For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
- Leviticus 10:10
  You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Through
Leviticus 10:10
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
leads to
- 1 Peter 1:14–16
  As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- Leviticus 11:47
  You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
Through
Ezekiel 44:23
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
leads to
- Leviticus 10:10–11
  You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

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