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- Leviticus
- Chapter 13
- Verse 55
Leviticus 13:55
And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin,.... After the piece has been rent out, in another part of the garment, &c. where before it was not…
This is the law concerning the plague of leprosy in a garment, whether linen or woollen. A leprosy in a garment, with discernible indications of it, the colour changed by it, the garment fretted, the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
it is a fret, whether the bareness be within or without The Heb. word for -fret" occurs only here, and probably means a depression in the surface caused by the material being eaten away. The Heb.…
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