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Selected Verse: Leviticus 13:46 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Le 13:46 |
King James |
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| he shall dwell alone; without the camp--in a lazaretto by himself, or associated with other lepers (Kg2 7:3, Kg2 7:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Dwell alone - More properly, dwell apart; that is, separated from the people.
Though thus excluded from general contact with society, it is not likely that lepers ceased to be objects of sympathy and kindness, such as they now are in those Christian and Moslem countries in which the leprosy prevails. That they associated together in the holy land, as they do at present, is evident from Kg2 7:3; Luk 17:12. It has been conjectured that a habitation was provided for them outside Jerusalem, on the hill Gareb (Bezetha), which is mentioned only in Jer 31:39.
Without the camp - Compare the margin reference. A leper polluted everything in the house which he entered. A separate space used to be provided for lepers in the synagogues. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| He shall dwell alone - Partly for his humiliation; partly to prevent the infection of others; and partly to shew the danger of converse with spiritual lepers, or notorious sinners. |
8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?