Leviticus 14:57
in Leviticus 14to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
KJV
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
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This verse in Leviticus 14
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
This site's exposition
This is the law for all manner of plague
on Leviticus 14:54-57
These four verses gather chapters 13 and 14 into one law, naming the leprosy of a man, of a garment and of a house, with the scall, the rising, the scab and the bright spot. The two chapters run 116 verses together, longer than the day of atonement chapter and longer than the law of any single offering. Verse 57 states the purpose as teaching when it is unclean, and when it is clean, so the law closes as an instrument of judgment rather than of healing.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
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.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְהוֹרֹ֕ת | lehorot | to teach | H3384 → | |
| בְּי֥וֹם | beyom | on [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַטָּמֵ֖א | hatame' | the unclean [thing] | H2931 → | 88 times |
| וּבְי֣וֹם | uveyom | and on [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַטָּהֹ֑ר | hatahor | the pure [thing] | H2889 → | 94 times |
| זֹ֥את | zot | this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| תּוֹרַ֖ת | torat | [is] [the] legal [procedure] of | H8451 → | 219 times |
| הַצָּרָֽעַת׃ ס | hatzaraat | <the> serious skin disease | H6883 → | 35 times |
לְהוֹרֹ֕תto teach
lehorotH3384 →
בְּי֥וֹםon [the] day of
beyomH3117 →2304 times
הַטָּמֵ֖אthe unclean [thing]
hatame'H2931 →88 times
וּבְי֣וֹםand on [the] day of
uveyomH3117 →2304 times
הַטָּהֹ֑רthe pure [thing]
hatahorH2889 →94 times
זֹ֥אתthis
zotH2063 →603 times
תּוֹרַ֖ת[is] [the] legal [procedure] of
toratH8451 →219 times
הַצָּרָֽעַת׃ ס<the> serious skin disease
hatzaraatH6883 →35 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
Jeremiah 15:19Therefore 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…
it 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 separate 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 separate 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,
- Ezekiel 22:26
Through
Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
it 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.’”
- 1 Peter 1:14–16
Through
Ezekiel 44:23They 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.
it leads to
- Leviticus 10:10–11
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
- Leviticus 10:10–11
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.