32This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
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And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-32)We have here the gracious provision which the law made for the cleansing of poor lepers . If they were not able to bring three lambs, and three tenth-deals of flour, they must bring one lamb, and one tenth-deal of flour, and, instead of the other two lambs, two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, Lev. 14:21 , 22 . Here see, 1. That the poverty of the person concerned would not excuse him if he brou…
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