Leviticus 13:18
When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals,
BSB
ASV
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
KJV
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides (n) you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah (o), it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer: and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever. (n) In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect.
In the skin thereof, was a boil - Scheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.
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.
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Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
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He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
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The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Exodus 9:9It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
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The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
