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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall look,.... Upon the man or woman that has these spots, and upon the spots themselves, and examine them of what kind they are: and, behold, [if] the bright spots in the skin of their flesh [be] darkish white; their whiteness is not strong, as Jarchi observes; but dusky and obscure, or "contracted" (w); small white spots, not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head,.... That is, from the back part of his head, from the crown of his head toward his neck behind: he [is] bald; in that spot of the head where the hair is fallen off; and it denotes such a baldness as is occasioned by that, for it signifies one that had hair, but it is fallen off; whereas the baldness...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face,.... That is, from the crown of his head towards his forehead and temples, the fore part of his head; and so the Misnic doctors distinguish baldness, which is from the crown of the head descending behind to the channel of the neck; and that here mentioned, which is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if there be,.... Or, "but if there be", or, "when there shall be" (y), or shall appear to be: in the bald head, or in the bald forehead, a white reddish sore; white and red mixed, as the Targum of Jonathan, having something of both colours, neither a clear white nor thorough red; though, according to Bochart, it should be rendered "a white...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall look upon it,.... The white reddish sore: and, behold, [if] the rising of the sore; or the swelling of it: [be] white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead; [See comments on Leviticus 13:42]: as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; as in Leviticus 13:2; having the signs of the leprosy there given;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the leper in whom the plague [is],.... Meaning not he only that has the plague of leprosy in his head, but every sort of leper before mentioned in this chapter: his clothes shall be rent; not that he might the more easily put on his clothes without hurting him, as some have thought; or that the corrupt humours might evaporate more freely, for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled,.... Reckoned an unclean person, and avoided as such: he [is] unclean; in a ceremonial sense, and pronounced as such by the priest, and was to be looked upon as such by others during the time of his exclusion and separation, until he was shown to the priest and cleansed, and his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The garments also, that the plague of leprosy is in,.... Whether this sort of leprosy proceeded from natural causes, or was extraordinary and miraculous, and came immediately from the hand of God, and was peculiar to the Jews, and unknown to other nations, is a matter of question; the latter is generally asserted by the Hebrew writers, as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whether [it be] in the warp, or woof, of linen, or of woollen,.... When these are woven and mixed together, it seems difficult, if not impossible, to judge whether the plague of leprosy was in the one or in the other; one would think it should be unavoidably in both; wherefore Castalio renders the words, whether "in the outer part of it, or in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the plague be greenish or reddish the garment, or in the skin,.... Either of these two colours were signs of leprosy in garments; but it is not agreed whether stronger or weaker colours are designed; the radicals of both these words being doubled, according to some, and particularly Aben Ezra, lessen the sense of them; and so our...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall look upon the plague,.... The green or red spot in the garment, c. and shut up [it that hath] the plague seven days the woollen or linen garment, the warp or the woof, or skins, and those things that were made of them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day,.... To see whether there is any alteration in it in that space of time: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin; the green and red spot be spread more and more in either of them, whether the colour remains the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He shall therefore burn that garment,.... That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts: whether in warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is; all and either of them were to be burnt: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; [See comments on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the priest shall look,.... On the seventh day as before, after shutting up: and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; but is at an entire stay, that it may be hoped it is not a fretting leprosy: so when men do not proceed to more ungodliness, as wicked men commonly do,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall command that they wash [the thing] wherein the plague [is],.... The priest did not wash it himself, but ordered others to do it; and this was either the part in which the plague was, or the whole garment or skin in which it was; which may be typical of the washing of the garments of men in the blood of Christ, which cleanses...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall look on the plague after it is washed,.... That is, on the second seventh day, or thirteenth day from his first inspection of it: and, behold, [if] the plague has not changed its colour; and the plague be not spread, it [is] unclean, thou shalt burn it in the fire; if it remains just as it was at first, very green or very red,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague [be] somewhat dark after the washing of it,.... Is become of a weaker colour, either not quite so green, or not quite so red as it was, or is "contracted", and does not spread itself, [See comments on Leviticus 13:6]; but is rather become less: then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 seen: it [is] a spreading [plague] or leprosy; a flourishing one, as the word signifies, a growing and increasing one: thou shalt burn that wherein the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the garment, either warp or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin [it be], which thou shalt wash,.... After it had been shut up seven days, and viewed by the priest again: if the plague be departed from them: upon a review of them: then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean; and so reckoned even thoroughly clean, and used; this...