- Bible
- Leviticus
- Chapter 13
- Verse 11
Leviticus 13:11
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
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Gill's Exposition
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh,.... An inveterate one, of long standing and continuance, an obstinate one, not to be cured by medicine; as this sort of leprosy was, and therefore the…
I. Concerning the plague of leprosy we may observe in general, 1. That it was rather an uncleanness than a disease; or, at least, so the law considered it, and therefore employed not the physicians…
The first part of this section is obscure; most modern commentators explain Lev 13:9-11 as referring to another form of leprosy in which the rising described in Lev 13:13 appears without any of the…