57To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
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And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 54-57)This is the conclusion of this law concerning the leprosy. There is no repetition of it in Deuteronomy, only a general memorandum given (Deut. 24:8), Take heed in the plague of leprosy . We may see in this law, 1. The gracious care God took of his people Israel, for to them only this law pertained, and not to the Gentiles. When Naaman the Syrian was cured of his leprosy he was not bidden to show h…
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