Leviticus 14
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

two birds. or, sparrows. The word {tzippor} from the arabic {zaphara} to fly, is used in the scriptures to denote {birds of every species}, particularly small birds. But it is often used in a more restricted sense, as the Hebrew writers assert, to signify the {sparrow}. Aquinas says the same; and Jerome renders it here the {sparrow}. So the Greek [], in Matthew and Luke, which signifies a {sparrow}, is rendered by the Syriac translator {tzipparin}, the same as the Hebrew {tzipporim}. Nor is it peculiar to the Hebrews to give the same name to the sparrow and to fowls of the largest size; for Nicander calls the hen [], {the domestic sparrow}, and both Plattus and Ausonius call the {ostrich, passer marinus}, `the marine sparrow.' It is evident, however, that the word in this passage signifies birds in general; for if the sparrow was a {clean} bird, there was no necessity for commanding a clean one to be taken, since every one of the species was ceremonially clean; but if it was {unclean}, then it could not be called clean.

Leviticus 1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, …

Leviticus 5:7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his …

Leviticus 12:8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two …

cedar

Leviticus 14:6,49-52 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and …

Numbers 19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and …

scarlet

Hebrews 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according …

hyssop

Exodus 12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that …

Numbers 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and …

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall …

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

sprinkle

Numbers 19:18,19 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and …

Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths …

Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …

John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately …

Hebrews 9:13,19,21 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer …

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having …

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of …

1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification …

1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by …

seven times

Leviticus 14:51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, …

Leviticus 4:6,17 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of …

Leviticus 8:11 And he sprinkled thereof on the altar seven times, and anointed the …

Leviticus 16:14,19 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with …

2 Kings 5:10,14 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan …

Psalm 51:2,7 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…

Ephesians 5:26,27 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word…

pronounce

Leviticus 13:13,17 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have …

let

Leviticus 16:22 And the goat shall bear on him all their iniquities to a land not …

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, …

Micah 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion on us; he will subdue …

Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world…

into the open field [heb] upon the face of the field

And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

shave all

Numbers 6:9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he has defiled the head …

Numbers 8:7 And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of …

wash his flesh Lictenstein states that `among the Koossas, (a nation of South Africa,) there are certain prevailing notions respecting moral [ceremonial] uncleanness. All children are unclean till they are admitted among grown-up persons (which happens with the males through the various ceremonies attending circumcision); all lying-in women are unclean for the first month; all men who have lost their wives, for a fortnight, and all widows for a month; a mother who has lost a child, for two days; all persons who have been present at a death, the men returning from a battle, etc. No one may have intercourse with such an unclean person, till he has washed himself, rubbed his body with fresh paint, and rinsed his mouth with milk. But he must not do this till after the lapse of a certain time, fixed by general consent for each particular case, and during this time he must wholly refrain from washing, painting, or drinking milk.'

And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

eighth day

Leviticus 14:23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the …

Leviticus 9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and …

Leviticus 15:13,14 And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall …

take

Matthew 8:4 And Jesus said to him, See you tell no man; but go your way, show …

Mark 1:44 And said to him, See you say nothing to any man: but go your way, …

Luke 5:14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and show yourself to the …

he lambs

Leviticus 1:10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of …

John 1:29 The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the …

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish …

ewe lamb

Leviticus 4:32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female …

Numbers 6:14 And he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one he lamb of the first …

of the first year [heb] the daughter of her year
three tenth

Leviticus 23:13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour …

Exodus 29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth …

Numbers 15:9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth …

Numbers 28:20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three …

a meat offering

Leviticus 2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering to the LORD, his offering …

Numbers 15:4-15 Then shall he that offers his offering to the LORD bring a meat offering …

John 6:33,51 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives …

log of oil

Leviticus 14:12,15,21,24 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass …

And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

two turtle doves Tor, the turtle or ring-dove, so called by an onomatopoeia from its {cooing}, as in Greek [], Latin, {turtur} and English, {turtle}. It is a species of the dove or pigeon, here called {yonah}, and in the Syriac {yauno}, from the verb to oppress, afflict, because of its being particularly defenceless, and exposed to rapine and violence. The dove is a genus of birds too well known to need a particular description; and of which there are several species besides the turtle-dove; as the wood pigeon, tame pigeon, and others. The dove is universally allowed to be one of the most beautiful objects in nature. the brilliancy of her plumage, the splendour of her eye, the innocence of her look, the excellence of her dispositions, and the purity of her manners, have been the theme of admiration and praise in every age. To the snowy whiteness of her wings, and the rich golden hues that adorn her neck, the inspired Psalmist alludes in most elegant strains. (ps

Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: …

Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, …

Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains …

Her native dwelling is in the caves or hollows of the rock; allusions to which fact also occur in the Sacred Writings.

Songs 2:14 O my dove, that are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places …

Jeremiah 48:28 O you that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock…

Her manners are engaging as her form is elegant, and her plumage rich and beautiful. She is the chosen emblem of simplicity, gentleness, chastity, and feminine timidity, and for this reason, as well as from their abounding in the East, they were probably chosen as offerings by Jehovah.

And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
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.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

When

Leviticus 23:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come …

Leviticus 25:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into …

Numbers 35:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come …

Deuteronomy 7:2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall …

Deuteronomy 12:1,8 These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall observe to …

Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD …

Deuteronomy 26:1 And it shall be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD …

Deuteronomy 27:3 And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are …

which I

Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give …

Genesis 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth …

Genesis 17:8 And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land wherein …

Numbers 32:32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, …

Deuteronomy 12:9,10 For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which …

Deuteronomy 32:49 Get you up into this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in …

Joshua 13:1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said to him, …

I put the plague of leprosy It was probably from this text, that the leprosy has been in general considered to be a supernatural disease, inflicted immediately by God himself; but it cannot be inferred from this expression, as it is well known, that in Scripture, God is frequently represented as {doing} what, in the course of his providence, he only {permits} to be done.

Exodus 15:26 And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD …

Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none …

1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses …

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: …

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …

Amos 6:11 For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house …

Micah 6:9 The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see …

And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

Leviticus 13:7,8,22,27,36,51 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he has …

The consideration of the circumstances will exhibit the importance and the propriety of the Mosaic ordinance on the subject of the house leprosy.

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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