Leviticus 14:57
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Leviticus 14:57 in other translations
| BSB | to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.” |
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| WEB | to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy. |
| ASV | to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. |
| YLT | to direct in the day of being unclean, and in the day of being clean; this is the law of the leprosy.' |
| DARBY | to teach when there is uncleanness, and when it is purified: this is the law of leprosy. |
| BBE | To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper. |
| Webster | To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. |
What does Leviticus 14:57 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 14:34-57
34-48. leprosy in a house--This law was prospective, not to come into operation till the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan. The words, "I put the leprosy," has led many to think that this plague was a judicial infliction from heaven for the sins of the owner; while others do not regard it in this light, it being common in Scripture to represent God as doing that which He only permits in His providence to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 14:54-57
When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ep 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former sins. Let us follow after holiness, and let us compassionate other poor lepers, and desire, seek, and pray for their cleansing.
Leviticus 14:57 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Leviticus 14:57
- Leviticus 10:10
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
- Jeremiah 15:19
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.
- Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
- Deuteronomy 24:8
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.
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- Leviticus 14:56
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
- Leviticus 14:57
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Leviticus 14:57 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Para enseñar cuándo es inmundo, y cuándo limpio. Aquesta es la ley tocante á la lepra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | pour enseigner en quel temps il y a impureté et en quel temps il y a pureté: telle est la loi de la lèpre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | um zu belehren, wann für unrein und wann für rein zu erklären ist: das ist das Gesetz des Aussatzes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ut possit sciri quo tempore mundum quid, vel immundum sit. |