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Text -- Leviticus 13:39 (NET)

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13:39 the priest is to examine them, and if the bright spots on the skin of their body are faded white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin. The person is clean.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: UNCLEANNESS | TETTER | TALMUD | Skin | Sanitation | SPOT; SPOTTED | RIGHTEOUSNESS | Purification | PRIESTS AND LEVITES | PRIEST, HIGH | PLAGUE | Leprosy | LEVITICUS, 2 | LEVITICUS, 1 | LEPER; LEPROSY | Israel | FRECKLED SPOT | Clean | COLOR; COLORS | Ablution | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Lev 13:39 - -- Or, contracted, or confined to the place where they are, and white.

Or, contracted, or confined to the place where they are, and white.

JFB: Lev 13:38-39 - -- This modification of the leprosy is distinguished by a dull white color, and it is entirely a cutaneous disorder, never injuring the constitution. It ...

This modification of the leprosy is distinguished by a dull white color, and it is entirely a cutaneous disorder, never injuring the constitution. It is described as not penetrating below the skin of the flesh and as not rendering necessary an exclusion from society. It is evident, then, that this common form of leprosy is not contagious; otherwise Moses would have prescribed as strict a quarantine in this as in the other cases. And hereby we see the great superiority of the Mosaic law (which so accurately distinguished the characteristics of the leprosy and preserved to society the services of those who were laboring under the uncontagious forms of the disease) over the customs and regulations of Eastern countries in the present day, where all lepers are indiscriminately proscribed and are avoided as unfit for free intercourse with their fellow men.

TSK: Lev 13:39 - -- if the bright : Ecc 7:20; Rom 7:22-25; Jam 3:2 a freckled spot : The word bohak , from the Syriac behak , to be white, or shining, here rendered "...

if the bright : Ecc 7:20; Rom 7:22-25; Jam 3:2

a freckled spot : The word bohak , from the Syriac behak , to be white, or shining, here rendered ""a freckled spot,""is used by the Arabs to denote a kind of leprosy, of which Niebuhr says, ""Bohak is neither contagious nor dangerous. A black boy at Mocha, who was affected with this eruption, had here and there upon his body white spots. We were told that the use of sulphur had relieved this boy for a time, but had not entirely removed the disease.""He adds subsequently from Forskal’ s papers, ""The Arabs call a sort of leprosy, in which some little spots shew themselves here and there on the body, behaq ; and it is without doubt the same as is named bohak , (Lev. 13). They believe it to be so far from contagious, that one may sleep with a person affected without danger.

""On the 15th day of May, 1765, I myself first saw the Bohak leprosy in a Jew at Mocha. The spots in this disease are of an unequal size. They do not shine; are not perceptibly higher than the skin; and do not change the colour of the hair. Their colour is an obscure white, inclining to red. The rest of the skin of the patient was darker than that of the people of the country in general; but the spots were not so white as the skin of an European, when not sun-burnt. The spots in this leprosy do not appear on the hands, or near the navel, but on the neck and face, yet not on that part where the hair grows thick. They gradually spread, and continue sometimes only about two months, but in some cases one or two years, and then disappear by degrees, of themselves. This disorder is neither contagious nor hereditary, nor does it occasion any inconvenience.""Hence a person infected with the bohak is declared clean.

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Lev 13:39 - -- Freckled spot - If Lev 13:12 refers to the Lepra commonis, the Hebrew בהק bôhaq here may denote some kind of eczema, a skin disease...

Freckled spot - If Lev 13:12 refers to the Lepra commonis, the Hebrew בהק bôhaq here may denote some kind of eczema, a skin disease of a somewhat similar external character.

Lev 13:38, Lev 13:39 would seem more in their natural place between Lev 13:17-18.

Poole: Lev 13:39 - -- Darkish white or contracted , or confined to the place where they are, and white .

Darkish white or contracted , or confined to the place where they are, and white .

Haydock: Lev 13:39 - -- Blemish, or scab, of which Celsus speaks, B. 5.

Blemish, or scab, of which Celsus speaks, B. 5.

Gill: Lev 13:39 - -- Then the priest shall look,.... Upon the man or woman that has these spots, and upon the spots themselves, and examine them of what kind they are: ...

Then the priest shall look,.... Upon the man or woman that has these spots, and upon the spots themselves, and examine them of what kind they are:

and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; their whiteness is not strong, as Jarchi observes; but dusky and obscure, or "contracted" w; small white spots, not large and spreading:

it is a freckled spot that grows in the skin; a kind of morphew, which the above writer describes as a sort of whiteness which appears in the flesh of a ruddy man:

he is clean; from leprosy; this is observed, lest a person that is freckled and has a morphew should be mistaken for a leprous person; as every man that has some spots, failings, and infirmities, is not to be reckoned a wicked man.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lev 13:39 Heb “he,” but the regulation applies to a man or a woman (v. 38a). In the translation “the person” is used to specify the refe...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Lev 13:1-59 - --1 The laws and tokens whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy.

MHCC: Lev 13:18-44 - --The priest is told what judgment to make, if there were any appearance of a leprosy in old sores; and such is the danger of those who having escaped t...

Matthew Henry: Lev 13:38-46 - -- We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev 13:38-41. Every deformity must not ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Lev 13:38-39 - -- Harmless leprosy . - This broke out upon the skin of the body in בּהרת plaits, "white rings."If these were dull or a pale white, it was the ha...

Constable: Lev 1:1--16:34 - --I. The public worship of the Israelites chs. 1--16 Leviticus continues revelation concerning the second of three...

Constable: Lev 11:1--15:33 - --C. Laws relating to ritual cleanliness chs. 11-15 A change of subject matter indicates another major div...

Constable: Lev 13:1--14:57 - --3. Uncleanness due to skin and covering abnormalities chs. 13-14 Many translations and commentar...

Constable: Lev 13:1-59 - --The diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities in human skin and clothing ch. 13 We may fu...

Constable: Lev 13:1-46 - --Abnormalities in human skin 13:1-46 God dealt with 21 different cases of skin diseases in this pericope. Some of these may have included measles, smal...

Guzik: Lev 13:1-59 - --Leviticus 13 - The Diagnosis of Leprosy A. Instructions to the priests for diagnosing leprosy. 1. (1-8) The method of examination for leprosy. And...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Leviticus (Book Introduction) LEVITICUS. So called from its treating of the laws relating to the ritual, the services, and sacrifices of the Jewish religion, the superintendence of...

JFB: Leviticus (Outline) BURNT OFFERINGS OF THE HERD. (Lev. 1:1-17) THE MEAT OFFERINGS. (Lev. 2:1-16) THE PEACE OFFERING OF THE HERD. (Lev. 3:1-17) SIN OFFERING OF IGNORANCE....

TSK: Leviticus (Book Introduction) Leviticus is a most interesting and important book; a book containing a code of sacrificial, ceremonial, civil, and judicial laws, which, for the puri...

TSK: Leviticus 13 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Lev 13:1, The laws and tokens whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy.

Poole: Leviticus (Book Introduction) THIRD BOOK OF MOSES CALLED LEVITICUS THE ARGUMENT This Book, containing the actions of about one month’ s space, acquainteth us with the Lev...

Poole: Leviticus 13 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 13 Laws touching leprosies; its different kinds how to be known and judged of by the priest, Lev 13:1-8 . Of the swelling, Lev 13:9-17 . Of...

MHCC: Leviticus (Book Introduction) God ordained divers kinds of oblations and sacrifices, to assure his people of the forgiveness of their offences, if they offered them in true faith a...

MHCC: Leviticus 13 (Chapter Introduction) (v. 1-17) Directions to the priest to judge concerning leprosy. (v. 18-44) Further directions. (Lev 13:45, Lev 13:46) How the leper must be disposed...

Matthew Henry: Leviticus (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus There is nothing historical in all this book of Leviticus exc...

Matthew Henry: Leviticus 13 (Chapter Introduction) The next ceremonial uncleanness is that of the leprosy, concerning which the law was very large and particular; we have the discovery of it in this...

Constable: Leviticus (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The Hebrews derived the title of this book from the first word in i...

Constable: Leviticus (Outline) Outline "At first sight the book of Leviticus might appear to be a haphazard, even repetitious arrangement of en...

Constable: Leviticus Leviticus Bibliography Aharoni, Yohanan, and Michael Avi-Yonah. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised ed. New York...

Haydock: Leviticus (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION. The Book is called Leviticus : because it treats of the offices, ministries, rites and ceremonies of the Priests and Levites. The H...

Gill: Leviticus (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS This book is commonly called by the Jews Vajikra, from the first word with which it begins, and sometimes תורת כהנ...

Gill: Leviticus 13 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 13 In this chapter an account is given of the various sorts of leprosy, and the rules by which they were to be judged of,...

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