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Selected Verse: Leviticus 13:39 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Le 13:39 |
King James |
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Freckled spot - If Lev 13:12 refers to the Lepra commonis, the Hebrew בהק bôhaq here may denote some kind of eczema, a skin disease of a somewhat similar external character.
Lev 13:38, Lev 13:39 would seem more in their natural place between Lev 13:17-18. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| If the spots be darkish white - Or, contracted, or confined to the place where they are, and white. |
17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;