Christian Standard Bible
Leviticus 14:32
32This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
Leviticus 14:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
- New International Version (NIV)These are the regulations for anyone who has a defiling skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for their cleansing.
- English Standard Version (ESV)This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing."
- New King James Version (NKJV)This is the law for one who had a leprous sore, who cannot afford the usual cleansing.”
Context of Leviticus 14:32
30He is to then sacrifice one type of what he can afford, either the turtledoves or young pigeons, 31one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, sacrificing what he can afford together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the Lord for the one to be cleansed. This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.” 33The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 34“When you enter the land of Canaan that I am giving you as a possession, and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess,
Read all of Leviticus 14Leviticus 14:32 word by word
זֹ֣את תּוֹרַ֔ת אֲשֶׁר־בּ֖וֹ נֶ֣גַע צָרָ֑עַת אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹֽא־תַשִּׂ֥יג יָד֖וֹ בְּטָהֳרָתֽוֹ׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 14:32
- Leviticus 14:2“This is the law concerning the person afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing. He is to be brought to the priest,
- Leviticus 13:59“This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, warp or weft, or any leather article, in order to pronounce it clean or unclean.”
- Leviticus 14:10“On the eighth day he must take two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one-third of a quart of olive oil.
- Psalms 72:12For he will rescue the poor who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- Psalms 136:23He remembered us in our humiliation His faithful love endures forever.
- Matthew 11:5The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news,
- 1 Corinthians 1:27Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
Commentaries on Leviticus 14:32
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-32Verses 10-32 The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rites of the trespass-offering, some of the blood, and some of the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21-32The ceremony for the poor was similar to the usual purification offering. But, it allowed them to use cheaper birds instead of a lamb (see Leviticus 5:7–13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 21-3221-32. 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).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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