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Leviticus 13:15

in Leviticus 13

When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.

KJV

And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

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.

This site's exposition

When anyone develops a skin disease

on Leviticus 13:9-17

A man covered from head to foot is pronounced clean at verse 13, and raw flesh appearing on him makes him unclean at verse 14. What defiles is the living sore, whatever the extent of the whiteness.

This site's exposition

The raw flesh is unclean

The rule of verse 14 is said again from the priest's side, and John Wesley explains the repetition. Living flesh could look like healing, so the priest might be deceived and had to look closely. John Gill adds that the uncleanness is ceremonial.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

The raw flesh - This is repeated again and again, because raw or living flesh might rather seem a sign of soundness, and the priest might easily be deceived by it, and therefore he was more narrowly to look into it.
And the priest shall see the raw flesh,.... Or when he sees it, the person being brought to him to be viewed: and pronounce him to be unclean; or shall pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean; made a man so in a ceremonial sense; See Gill on Lev 13:10, it is a leprosy; wherever any quick raw flesh appears in a swelling.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְרָאָ֧הand he will see

    veraahH7200 →1300 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֛ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבָּשָׂ֥רthe flesh

    habasarH1320 →270 times

  • הַחַ֖י<the> living

    hachaiH2416 →498 times

  • וְטִמְּא֑וֹand he will declare unclean him

    vetimeoH2930 →162 times

  • הַבָּשָׂ֥רthe flesh

    habasarH1320 →270 times

  • הַחַ֛י<the> living

    hachaiH2416 →498 times

  • טָמֵ֥א[is] unclean

    tame'H2931 →88 times

  • ה֖וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • צָרַ֥עַת[is] a serious skin disease

    tzaraatH6883 →35 times

  • הֽוּא׃it

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
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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.

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