3And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
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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.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, …
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here, I. It is supposed that the plague of the leprosy was not an incurable disease. Uzziah’s indeed continued to the day of his death, and Gehazi’s was entailed upon his seed; but Miriam’s lasted only seven days: we may suppose that it often wore off in process of time. Though God contend long, he will not contend for ever . II. The judgment of the cure, as well as that of the disease, was referr…
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