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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the priest look on it,.... Upon a person in a like case as first described, having had a boil, and that healed, and afterwards a white swelling, or a bright spot in the place of it: and, behold, [there be] no white hairs therein; not two hairs turned white, as Gersom interprets it: and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin; the bright spot...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if it spread much abroad in the skin,.... Upon viewing it on the seventh day, though it is not expressed, the swelling or bright spot; or "in spreading spread"; [See comments on Leviticus 13:7]; which Ben Gersom interprets, not of the skin of the flesh, but of the ulcer: then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; even though there are no...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not,.... Continues as it was when first viewed: it [is] a burning boil; but not a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall pronounce him clean; as clear of a leprosy, and so not bound by the law of it, though attended with an inflammation or burning ulcer.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or if there be [any] flesh, in the skin whereof [there is] a hot burning,.... Or "a burning of fire" (r): it is asked, what is a burning? that which is burnt with a coal or with hot ashes; all that is from the force of fire is burning (s); that is, whatever sore, pustule, or blister, is occasioned by fire touching the part, or by anything heated...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall look upon it,.... And examine it, whether it has the marks and signs of a leprosy or not, such as follow: behold, [if] the hair in the bright spot be turned white; which before was black, or of another colour from white, and is now, turned into the whiteness of chalk, as the Targum of Jonathan: and it [be in] sight deeper...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the priest look on it,.... On the hot burning and bright spot in it, in another person: and, behold, [there be] no white hair on the white spot, and it be no lower than the [other] skin; why the word "other" should be supplied I know not, any more than in Leviticus 13:21; but be somewhat dark; or "contracted", [See comments on Leviticus...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day,.... When that is come, any time on that day; not needing to wait until the end of it, or till, the seven days are precisely up; the same is to be understood in all places in this chapter where the like is used: [and] if it be spread much abroad in the skin; in the space of seven days: then the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not in the skin,.... If, after being shut up, seven days, it appears that the spot is no larger than, when it was first viewed, but is as it was, and not at all increased: but it [be] somewhat dark; either not so bright as it was, or more contracted: it [is] a rising of the burning; or a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If a man or a woman hath a plague upon the head or the beard. Any breaking out in those parts a swelling, scab, or spot, on a man's beard or on a woman's head; or on the head of either man or woman; or on a woman's beard, if she had any, as some have had though not common.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall see the plague,.... The person on whom it is shall come or be brought unto him; and he shall look upon it and examine it: and, behold, if it [be] in sight deeper than the skin; which is always one sign of leprosy; [and there be] in it a yellow thin hair; like the appearance of thin gold, as the Targum of Jonathan; for, as Ben...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the priest look on the plague of the scall,.... As it may appear in another person, brought to him for inspection and examination: and, behold, it [be] not in the sight deeper than the skin; it do not seem to be got into the flesh, or lower than the skin: and [that there is] no black hair in it; or, "but no black hair in it"; for, as Jarchi...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague,.... To see whether it has got any deeper, or spread any further, and has any hair growing in it, and of what colour, that he might be also able to judge whether it was a leprosy or not: and, behold, [if] the scall spread not; was neither got into the flesh, nor larger in the skin; and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He shall be shaven,.... His head or beard, where the scall was, as Aben Ezra; and so Ben Gersom, who adds, the law is not solicitous whether this shaving is by a priest or not; so it seems any one might shave him: but the scall shall he not shave; that is, the hair that is in it, but that was to continue and grow, that the colour of it might be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall,.... That is, according to Ben Gersom, on the thirteenth day from the first inspection of him by the priest: and, behold, [if] the scall be not spread in the skin, nor [be] in sight deeper than the skin; neither appears spread on the surface of the skin, nor to have eaten into the flesh...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the scall spread much in his skin after cleansing. After he has been declared clean by the priest; for it was possible that it might spread after this, though so much precaution had been used, and so much time taken to observe it: with this compare 2 Peter 1:9.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall look on him,.... Again, and which is no less than the fourth time; for notwithstanding his being pronounced clean, he was still subject to the inspection of the priest, if any alteration appeared: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin; which was a certain sign of a leprosy: the priest shall not seek for yellow hair;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay,.... If in a few days, or in a short space of time after this, it should appear that the scall is at a full stop, and does not spread any further at all: and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; which is a sign of health and soundness, and so of purity; yea, if it was green or red, so be it, it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If a man also, or a woman,.... One or the other, for the law concerning leprosy respecteth both: have in the skin of their flesh bright spots; and them only; not any rising or swelling, nor scab, nor scall, nor boil, nor burning, only bright spots, a sort of freckles or morphew: [even] white bright spots; these, Ben Gersom observes, are white...
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...