
Text -- Leviticus 13:39 (NET)




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Wesley -> Lev 13:39
Or, contracted, or confined to the place where they are, and white.
JFB -> Lev 13:38-39
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
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
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Barnes -> Lev 13:39
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
Lev 13:38, Lev 13:39 would seem more in their natural place between Lev 13:17-18.
Poole -> Lev 13:39
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.
Gill -> Lev 13:39
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:
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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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TSK Synopsis -> Lev 13:1-59
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
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
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
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...
