Verse Leviticus 14:4. _TWO BIRDS ALIVE_ AND _CLEAN, C._] Whether these birds were _sparrows_, or _turtledoves_, or _pigeons_, we know not probably any kind of _clean_ bird, or bird proper to be eaten...
These birds were provided by the priest for the man. They were not, like the offerings for the altar, brought by the man himself (compare Leviticus 14:4 with Leviticus 14:10), they were not presented...
4. THE CLEANSING OF THE LEPER CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The cleansing of the leper (Leviticus 14:1)_ 2. Leprosy in the house and its purification (Leviticus 14:33) The cleansing and restoration of the leper...
11- 15. RITUAL CLEANLINESS AND UNCLEANLINESS. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1, Purgation for skin diseases; L...
NORMAL LAW OF CLEANSING after the disease has disappeared. The patient brings to the priest two birds, and he is sprinkled with the blood of one of them, killed in an earthenware (and therefore cheap)...
IS TO BE CLEANSED. him that is cleansing himself. BIRDS, or sparrows. CEDAR WOOD, AND SCARLET, AND HYSSOP. Hence the ancient tradition that the highest tree and the lowest herb give the leper purity,...
The priest was to see that two living clean birds were brought. The Heb. word is _ẓippôr_, which is used of the birds of Abraham's sacrifice (Genesis 15:10) and of clean birds generally (Deuteronomy 1...
TWO BIRDS ALIVE AND CLEAN— The Vulgate renders this, _two sparrows;_ and so it is rendered in the margin of our English Bibles: but the original is general, and expresses two small birds of any kind;...
REGULATIONS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF A LEPER 14:1-32 TEXT 14:1-32 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto...
_THEN SHALL THE PRIEST COMMAND TO TAKE FOR HIM THAT IS TO BE CLEANSED TWO BIRDS ALIVE AND CLEAN, AND CEDAR WOOD, AND SCARLET, AND HYSSOP:_ Then shall the priest command to take for him ... two birds...
14:4 birds, (e-18) Little birds. As 'sparrow,' Psalms 84:3 ; Psalms 102:7 ....
THE PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER. THE LEPROSY OF HOUSES When a leper has been cured of his plague, and has satisfied the priest that his cure is complete, he is required to go through a ceremonial purifi...
Later usage required the birds to be sparrows. Cedar wood (probably not the cedar of Lebanon but a kind of juniper) may have been chosen on account of its antiseptic property, and hyssop (see on Exodu...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
Then shall the priest command to take. — Literally, _And the priest shall command, and he shall take,_ that is, the leper shall take. To avoid the ambiguity as to the person, the translators of the Au...
THE CLEANSING OF THE LEPER Leviticus 14:1 THE ceremonies for the restoration of the leper, when healed of his disease, to full covenant privileges, were comprehended in two distinct series. The first...
THE LAW OF THE CLEANSED LEPER Leviticus 14:1 The penalty, when leprosy had unmistakably declared itself, included compulsory severance from the camp, the rent garments, the bare head, the covered lip...
The possibility of the restoration of a leper to health was recognized and provision was made accordingly. In the case of the individual, the ceremony was elaborate. The priest must first visit him wi...
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] (b) clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: (b) Of birds which were permitted to be eaten....
Sparrows. Hebrew tsipporim. Septuagint, "little birds," which the law only determines must be clean; such probably as might be procured most easily. The leper was to present them, and kill one. But th...
As the mercy of redemption by the blood and righteousness of the LORD JESUS, extends to all the necessities of our souls, so is it worth our closest observation, that in the old church, in the wildern...
The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. Leprosy requires a little more detail. It was found in persons, in garments, in houses. Leprosy was sin acting in the flesh. The spiritual man-the...
THEN SHALL THE PRIEST COMMAND TO TAKE FOR HIM THAT IS TO BE CLEANSED,.... The command is by the priest, the taking is by any man, as Ben Gersom observes; anyone whom he shall command, the leper himsel...
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: Ver. 4. _Command to take._] That the leper might show his th...
_Two birds_ The one to represent Christ as dying for his sins, the other to represent him as rising again for his purification or justification. _Alive and clean_ Allowed for food and for sacrifice. _...
[CLEANSING OF THE LEPROSIE.] 1 The rites and sacrifices in clensing of the Leper. 33 The signes of leprosie in a house. 48 The clensing of that house. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Th...
s home. If, however, he presumptuously leaves his asylum sooner, he is exposed to the anger of the avenger, Numbers 35:26. " 2)...
RESTORING OF A LEPER (VV. 1-20) Even a case of leprosy may be healed, though this is not frequently seen in the Old Testament. Miriam's leprosy was healed very soon after her infliction (Numbers 12:9)...
BIRDS: Or, sparrows...
1-9 The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and the society of his people....
TWO BIRDS; the one to represent Christ as dying for his sins, the other to represent him as rising again for his purification or justification. CLEAN; allowed for food and for sacrifice. CEDAR WOOD; a...
Of all the functions which, according to the Mosaic ritual, the priest had to discharge, none demanded more patient attention, or more strict adherence to the divine guide-book, than the discernment a...
Leviticus 14:4 priest H3548 command H6680 (H8765) take H3947 (H8804) cleansed H2891 (H8693) two H8147 living...
THE LAW OF THE SKIN-DISEASED IN THE DAY OF HIS CLEANSING (LEVITICUS 14:2) Leviticus 14:2 “This shall be the law of the skin-diseased in the day of his cleansing, He shall be brought to the priest, a...
BIRDS The bird slain, and the live bird, dipped in blood and released, present the two aspects of salvation in (Romans 4:25) "delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification....
CONTENTS: Laws concerning cleansing of lepers. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: As the leper was cleansed from his fearful malady through the water and the blood, so Christ comes into the soul fo...
Leviticus 14:3. _The plague of leprosy._ This loathsome disease rendered the body torpid, and severely depressed the spirits, as is affirmed by our learned travellers in the east. It commences with wh...
_The law of the leper in the day of his cleansing._ CLEANSING THE LEPER I. The disease. 1. Its peculiar designation. Leprosy the “plague of boils” (Deuteronomy 28:1.), which applies very forcibly t...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 14:1 Chapter Leviticus 14:1 explains how an unclean person who had been placed outside the camp is readmitted into the covenant community....
Leprosy Cleansed SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 14:2.—In the day of his cleansing. Remedy and respite came to the pitiable leper. Although his case seemed forlorn and dismal—unclean, and an outcast—ye...
EXPOSITION THE FORM OF PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER (Leviticus 14:1). This is the most minute of all the forms of purification, those for purification from contact with a dead body (Numb
In chapter fourteen it begins with very fascinating words, And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing (Leviticus 14:1-2): Interesting, indee...
Exodus 12:22; Hebrews 9:19; Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 12:8; Leviticus
Two birds — The one to represent Christ as dying for his sins, the other to represent him as rising again for his purification or justification. Clean — Allowed for food and for sacrifice. Cedar — woo...