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Leviticus 13:10

in Leviticus 13

The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the priest shall look; and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising,

KJV

And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
If the rising be white - Or, If there be a white rising. The term very probably denotes the white Bulla or patch of Anaesthetic elephantiasis when it has re-appeared. Quick raw flesh in the rising - The margin gives the literal rendering. The symptom here noted exhibits a more advanced stage of the disease. The expression might denote an ulcer or open sore with “proud flesh” appearing in it.

This site's exposition

When the plague of leprosy is in a man

on Leviticus 13:9-17

The rule here runs the opposite way to what a reader expects. A man covered with it from his head even to his foot is pronounced clean at verse 13, and one patch of raw flesh appearing in him makes him unclean at verse 14. What defiles is the living sore rather than the extent of the whiteness, and the chapter states the rule twice without explaining it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Nor is there any surer indication of the badness of a man's spiritual state than the heart's rising in self-conceit, confidence in the flesh, and resistance of the reproofs of the word and strivings of the Spirit. If the eruption, whatever it was, covered all the skin from head to foot, it was no leprosy (

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

White in the skin - With a preternatural and extraordinary whiteness. Raw flesh - This shewed it was not a superficial leprosy but one of a deeper and more malignant nature, that had eaten into the very flesh, for which cause it is in the next verse called an old or inveterate leprosy.
And the priest shall see him,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְרָאָ֣הand he will see

    veraahH7200 →1300 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֗ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֤הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • שְׂאֵת־a swelling

    seet-H7613 →14 times

  • לְבָנָה֙white

    levanahH3836 →29 times

  • בָּע֔וֹר[is] in the skin

    baorH5785 →99 times

  • וְהִ֕יאand it

    vehi'H1931 →1879 times

  • הָפְכָ֖הit has turned

    hafekhahH2015 →94 times

  • שֵׂעָ֣ר[the] hair

    searH8181 →28 times

  • לָבָ֑ןwhite

    lavanH3836 →29 times

  • וּמִֽחְיַ֛תand a raw spot of

    umichyatH4241 →

  • בָּשָׂ֥רflesh

    basarH1320 →270 times

  • חַ֖יliving

    chaiH2416 →498 times

  • בַּשְׂאֵֽת׃[is] in the swelling

    basetH7613 →14 times

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

Related verses

10 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.4 works2 Chronicles 26:19–20Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.3 worksAmos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.2 worksJohn 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.2 worksJohn 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.2 worksLeviticus 13:24When there is a burn on someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Leviticus 13:14–15But whenever raw flesh appears on someone, he will be unclean.2 worksLeviticus 13:3–4The priest is to examine the infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.2 worksNumbers 12:10–12As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,2 worksProverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    John 7:7

    The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

    it leads to

    • John 15:18–19

      If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

    • John 3:19

      And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

    • Galatians 4:16

      Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

    • Proverbs 9:7–8

      He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.

    • James 4:4

      You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

  • Through

    Amos 5:10

    There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 29:21

      those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

    • 1 Kings 22:8

      The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son…

    • John 8:45–47

      But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

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.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 13 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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