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Leviticus 14:26

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Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;

KJV

And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:

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This verse in Leviticus 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

If, however, the person is poor

on Leviticus 14:21-32

Twelve verses run the whole rite again for a man who cannot afford it, and no step is dropped. Two lambs become two turtledoves or two young pigeons, but poverty never removes the lamb for the guilt offering.

This site's exposition

pour some of the oil into his left palm

The oil comes from the same full log that verse 21 requires even of the poor man. John Gill refers the reader back to verse 15. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the smaller offering was applied in the same process of purification.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand. See Gill on Lev 14:15.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb--a kind and considerate provision for an extension of the privilege to lepers of the poorer class. The blood of their smaller offering was to be applied in the same process of purification and they were as publicly and completely cleansed as those who brought a costlier offering (Ac 10:34).

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The words behind it

8 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.

  • וּמִן־and some of

    umin-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַשֶּׁ֖מֶןthe oil

    hashemenH8081 →193 times

  • יִצֹ֣קhe will pour

    yitzokH3332 →50 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֑ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כַּ֥ף[the] palm of

    kafH3709 →192 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃<the> left

    hasemalitH8042 →9 times

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

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About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 14 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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