Leviticus 13:54
Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Leviticus 13:54 in other translations
| BSB | the priest is to order the contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven days. |
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| WEB | then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days. |
| ASV | then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more: |
| YLT | then hath the priest commanded, and they have washed that in which the plague is, and he hath shut it up a second seven days. |
| DARBY | then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the sore is, and he shall shut it up seven days a second time. |
| BBE | Then the priest will give orders for the thing on which the mark is, to be washed, and to be shut up for seven days more: |
| Webster | Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more: |
What does Leviticus 13:54 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:47-59
47-59. The garment ... that the ... leprosy is in--It is well known that infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, measles, the plague, are latently imbibed and carried by the clothes. But the language of this passage clearly indicates a disease to which clothes themselves were subject, and which was followed by effects on them analogous to those which malignant leprosy produces on the human body--for similar…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 13:47-59
The garment suspected to be tainted with leprosy was not to be burned immediately. If, upon search, it was found that there was a leprous spot, it must be burned, or at least that part of it. If it proved to be free, it must be washed, and then might be used. This also sets forth the great evil there is in sin. It not only defiles the sinner's conscience, but it brings a stain upon all he has and all that he does…
Leviticus 13:54 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Leviticus 13:53
And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
- Leviticus 13:54
Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
- Leviticus 13:55
And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
Leviticus 13:54 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces el sacerdote mandará que laven donde está la plaga, y lo encerrará otra vez por siete días. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | alors le sacrificateur commandera qu’on lave l’objet où est la plaie, et le fera enfermer pendant sept autres jours. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so soll der Priester gebieten, daß man das wasche, woran das Übel ist; und er soll es zum zweiten Male sieben Tage einschließen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | præcipiet, et lavabunt id in quo lepra est, recludetque illud septem diebus aliis. |