Leviticus 14:13

_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._ Two he-lambs ... and one ewe lamb. The second stage in the lustral course now commenced, with a view to the leper's restoration to full fellowship with the Lord: a costlier sacrifice of expiation was required. The purification of the leper was not completed until at the end of seven days after the ceremonial of the birds, and during which, though permitted to come into the camp, he had to tarry abroad-not in his tent, lest some latent remnants of disease about him might infect his family. Coming daily to appear at the door of the tabernacle with the offerings required, he was presented before the Lord - i:e., before the altar of burnt offering, by the priest that made him cle...

10-32 The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rites of the trespass-offering, some of the blood, and some of the oil, was to be put upon him that was to be cleansed. Wherever the blood of Christ is applied for justification, the oil of the Spirit is applied for sanctification; these two cannot be separated. We have here the gracious provision the law made for poor lepers. The poor are as welcome to God's altar as the rich. But though a meaner sacrifice was accepted from the poor, yet the same ceremony was used for the rich; their souls are as precious, and...

IT IS MOST HOLY - See Leviticus 6:25 note....

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 (Numbers 19:1) and for the cleansing of a defiled Nazarite (Numbers 6:1) being alone to be compared with it in this respect. Some purifications were accomplished, as we have seen, in a very summary manner: one who touched the carcass of a beast that had died a natural death had only to wash his clothes (Leviticus 11:40). The

AND HE SHALL SLAY THE LAMB,.... The priest, or the butcher, as the Targum of Jonathan, the slaughterer, the priest appointed for that service; at which time both the hands of the leper were laid upon it, as says the Misnah p; for though the leper might not go into the court as yet, the sacrifice was brought to the door of the tabernacle for him to put his hands on it: so Maimonides q relates; the trespass offering of the leper is brought to the door, and he puts both his hands into the court, and lays them on it, and they immediately slay it: IN THE PLACE WHERE HE SHALL KILL THE SIN OFFERING IN THE HOLY PLACE; in the court of the tabernacle, on the north side of the altar, as Jarchi observes, see Leviticus 1:11; FOR AS THE SIN OFFERING [IS] THE PRIEST'S, [SO IS] THE TRESPASS OFFERING; and to be eaten by him and his sons in the holy place, and by none

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 is full of significance, foreshadowing once more the blessed work of our Saviour. Two parts in this ceremonial are to be noticed first of all. The first thing done was to restore the leper among the people from whom he had been put away. The second part of the ceremony restored him fully to communion with God. The first part was accomplished on the first day; the second part on the eighth day. A careful distinction must be made between the healing and the cleansing. All the ceremonies could not heal the leper. Jehovah alone could heal that loathsome disease. But after the

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) bowl, for mixing the blood, over running (and therefore pure) water, along with cedar wood (perhaps because of its supposed healing properties), scarlet wool, and hyssop (_cf._ Numbers 19:6 *). The other bird carries away the pollution. He then removes his hair and washes himself and his clothes (_cf._ Deuteronomy 21:12; Numbers 6:18 *). In the second part of the rite, next day, the semi-magical elements (except perhaps in Le

HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5....

_in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering_ For the Burnt-Offering see ch. Leviticus 1:11; for the Sin-Offering, Leviticus 6:25; and for the Guilt-Offering, Leviticus 7:2. _in the place of the sanctuary_ i.e. in the court, not in the tabernacle....

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 the priest: 3 and 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, 4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5 and the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce h...