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Leviticus 14:54
54These are the rules for a disease in a person's skin.
Leviticus 14:54 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
- New International Version (NIV)These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease, for a sore,
- English Standard Version (ESV)This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an itch,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“This is the law for any leprous sore and scale,
Context of Leviticus 14:54
52The priest will use the birds and the wood from the cedar tree. And he will use the wool and the hyssop to make the house clean. 53Then the priest will take the living bird outside the town. He will let the bird fly away. That will make atonement for the house. The person may then live in the house again.’ These are the rules for a disease in a person's skin. 55These are the rules for mildew in clothes or in a house. 56These are the rules for a mark on or under the skin.
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זֹ֖את הַתּוֹרָ֑ה לְכָל־נֶ֥גַע הַצָּרַ֖עַת וְלַנָּֽתֶק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 14:54
- Leviticus 14:2‘These rules are for a person who has had a disease on his skin. They are rules about how to make him clean. When the disease leaves the person, you must bring him to the priest.
- Leviticus 6:9‘Tell Aaron and his sons my rules. They must burn these gifts on the altar. The fire must burn all night.
- Leviticus 7:1These are the rules for a most holy offering. A person may be sorry for the wrong things that he has done. That person must obey these rules.
- Leviticus 11:46These rules are about animals, birds and all animals that move in water or on the ground.
- Leviticus 15:32These are the rules when pus or semen come from a man's body.
- Numbers 5:29Perhaps a man is jealous because his wife has had sex with another man. Or he may only think that his wife has had sex with another man. This is what the law says that the priest must do: The man must bring her in front of the Lord.
- Numbers 6:13He is a Nazirite for a certain time. When that time finishes, the people must bring him to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 19:14This is the rule when a person dies in a tent. Any person who is in the tent will not be clean for seven days.
- Deuteronomy 24:8If you have leprosy, be very careful! Do everything that the Levite priests tell you to do. You must obey everything that I have commanded them.
- Leviticus 13:30The priest must look at the mark. The mark may be under the skin and on the skin, and it may have thin yellow hair on it. That is a bad disease. He could give that disease to other people. The priest must say that the person is not clean.
Commentaries on Leviticus 14:54
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 54-57Verses 54-57 When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ep 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former sins. Let us follow after holiness, and let us compassionate other poor lepers, and desire, seek, and pray for their cleansing.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 54-57This is a summary statement about many kinds of infections (compare Leviticus 11:46–47).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-572-3. law of the leper in the day of his cleansing--Though quite convalescent, a leper was not allowed to return to society immediately and at his own will. The malignant character of his disease rendered the greatest precautions necessary to his re-admission among the people. One of the priests most skilled in the diagnostics of disease [Grotius], being deputed to attend such outcasts, the restored leper appeared before this official, and when after…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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