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Text -- Leviticus 13:18-23 (NET)
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Context
A Boil on the Skin
13:18 “When someone’s body has a boil on its skin and it heals ,
13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish white bright spot , he must show himself to the priest .
13:20 The priest will then examine it, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white , then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean . It is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil .
13:21 If , however, the priest examines it, and there is no white hair in it, it is not deeper than the skin , and it has faded , then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days .
13:22 If it is spreading further on the skin , then the priest is to pronounce him unclean . It is an infection .
13:23 But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread , it is the scar of the boil , so the priest is to pronounce him clean .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Leprosy |
SPOT; SPOTTED |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
TALMUD |
PRIESTS AND LEVITES |
Boil |
Sanitation |
Israel |
Ablution |
UNCLEANNESS |
PRIEST, HIGH |
BOIL (1) |
Purification |
Clean |
PLAGUE |
COLOR; COLORS |
LEPER; LEPROSY |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
MEDICINE |
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NET Notes: Lev 13:18 Heb (MT) reads, “And flesh if/when there is in it, in its skin, a boil.” Smr has only “in it,” not “in its skin,” ...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:19 Some English versions translate “it shall be shown to [or “be seen by”] the priest,” taking the infection to be the subject of...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:20 Heb “It is an infection of disease. In the boil it has broken out.” For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. ...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:22 This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’, cf. the note on v. 3 above).
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