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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so much,.... As three lambs, and three tenth deals of fine flour: then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him; one he lamb, and was excused the other he lamb for a burnt offering, and the ewe lamb for a sin offering; but a lamb he must bring, a type of Christ...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get,.... As good as he can get for his money, or his money he is possessed of will purchase; but if he was not able to purchase these of the better sort, the best he could get would be acceptable; so indulgent, kind, and merciful was God to the poor in this case; these were instead...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall bring them on the eighth day, for his cleansing,.... Which supposes him to have gone through all the rites and ceremonies of cleansing throughout the seven days, from his first appearance before the priest; such as his being sprinkled with the cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, dipped in the blood of the slain bird, mixed with running...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:12].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:13]. and the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass offering, &c. [See comments on Leviticus 14:14].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand. [See comments on Leviticus 14:15].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger [some] of the oil,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:16].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall put of the oil that [is] in his hand,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:17].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the rest of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:18].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:22].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[Even] such as he is able to get, the one [for] a sin offering,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:22].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the law [of him] in whom [is] the plague of leprosy,.... The former part of the chapter contains an account of the laws, rites, and ceremonies of a leper who was able to bear the expenses them: this latter part respects such laws, rites, and ceremonies, that belonged to him: whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,.... At the same time as the above laws were delivered concerning the leper, and the cleansing of him, or however immediately upon that; the affair of the leprosy of houses being what belonged to the priest to examine into and cleanse from: saying; as follows.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When ye be come into the land of Canaan,.... Which as yet they were not come to, being in the wilderness, and so the following law concerning the leprosy in houses could not yet take place, they now dwelling in tents, and not in houses: which I give to you for a possession; the Lord had given it to Abraham, and his seed, long ago, to be their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that owneth the house shall come, and tell the priest,.... As soon as he observes any sign of leprosy in it, or which gives him a suspicion of it: saying, it seemeth unto me [there is] as it were a plague in the house; he must not say expressly there is one, how certain soever he may be of it, because the matter must be determined by a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,.... Clear it of all persons and things; everybody was obliged to go out of it; and all the furniture of it, all the household goods in it, were to be removed from it: before the priest go [into it] to see the plague, that all that [is] in the house be not made clean; as would be the case...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall look on the plague,.... That which is taken or suspected to be one, being pointed unto by the owner of the house: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] in the walls of the house; for there it chiefly was, if not solely; and from hence Gersom infers that it must be a walled house, and that it must have four walls, neither more nor fewer;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house,.... Thereby signifying that it was not fit to be inhabited, and there standing to see it shut up, as follows: and shut up the house seven days: to observe what alteration would be made in that time, and which would sooner be discovered in a house uninhabited.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look,.... On the seventh day from his shutting of it up, he shall open it again, go into it, and observe in what condition it is: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the walls of the house: the hollow strakes are become deeper, or the coloured spots are become larger: spreading was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is],.... In there appeared any cavities, or the above colours, and these spreading: in order to put a stop thereunto, these stones were to be drawn or pulled out, as the word signifies, in such manner as not to endanger the fall of the house, and two stones at least...