This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
- BSB This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,
- NKJV “This is the law for any leprous sore and scale,
- NASB This is the law for any spot of leprosy—even for a scale,
- NLT “These are the instructions for dealing with serious skin diseases, including scabby sores;
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Quick answer
This verse begins the summary of the law covering every plague of leprosy and the itch. It matters because it gathers the wide-ranging purity regulations into one comprehensive law.
Overview
Opening the concluding summary of chapters 13 and 14, this verse states that these are the laws for every kind of skin disease and related conditions. The breadth of the summary shows how thoroughly God addressed the matter of defilement among his people. The whole body of these laws, with their diagnosis, exclusion, and cleansing, points beyond itself to Christ, who alone deals fully and finally with all that defiles.
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Cross-references · 14
- Lev 14:32This 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.
- Num 5:29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
- Lev 15:32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
- Lev 11:46This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
- Num 6:13And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
- Num 19:14This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
- Deut 24:8Take 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.
- Lev 6:9Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
- Lev 7:37This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
- Lev 7:1Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
- Lev 6:14And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
- Lev 6:25Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
- Lev 13:30–31Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
- Lev 14:2This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
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