39Then 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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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: …
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-46)We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev. 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his bald head (2 Kgs. 2:23); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. II. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any…
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