Leviticus 14:57 BSB

Leviticus 14:57

to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”

BSB

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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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Commentary

2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְהוֹרֹ֕ת	le.ho.Rot	to teach	H3384 →
בְּי֥וֹם	be.Yom	on [the] day of	H3117 →
הַטָּמֵ֖א	ha.ta.Me'	the unclean [thing]	H2931 →
וּבְי֣וֹם	u.ve.Yom	and on [the] day of	H3117 →
הַטָּהֹ֑ר	ha.ta.Hor	the pure [thing]	H2889 →
זֹ֥את	zot	this	H2063 →
תּוֹרַ֖ת	to.Rat	[is] [the] legal [procedure] of	H8451 →
הַצָּרָֽעַת׃ ס	ha.tza.Ra.'at	<the> serious skin disease	H6883 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore 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…
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 independent 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 independent 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,
Through
Leviticus 10:10
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
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.’”
Through
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.
leads to
- Leviticus 10:10–11
  You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

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03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Leviticus

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Leviticus