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Leviticus 13:44

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Leviticus 13:44 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus 13:44 — American Standard Version

Context — Leviticus 13

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
41And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; [yet] is he clean.
42But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
43Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh;
44he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
45And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.
47The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean, etc.] And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; as in any other case of leprosy: his plague [is] in his head; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles, and are therefore, like the leper, to be avoided and rejected from the communion of the saints, (<560310>Titus 3:10); and shows that men are accountable for their principles as well as practices, and liable to be…”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“utterly unclean: Job 36:14; Mat 6:23; Pe2 2:1, Pe2 2:2; Jo2 1:8-10 his plague: Isa 1:5 Leviticus 13:45”
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