John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 13:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But if the priest look on it, etc.] Upon a person in a like case as first described, having had a boil, and that healed, and afterwards a white swelling, or a bright spot in the place of it: and, behold, [there be] no white hairs therein; not two hairs turned white, as Gersom interprets it: and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin; the bright spot not lower than the skin; not having got into the flesh, only skin deep: the Targum of Jonathan is, not lower in whiteness than the skin; for the bright spot is described as white, and so the rising or swelling, (<031319>Leviticus 13:19); but [be] somewhat dark; or rather “contracted”; to which spreading is opposed in the next verse; (see Gill on “<031306>Leviticus 13:6”); then the priest shall shut him up seven days; to wait and see whether it will spread or not: a boil and burning, the Jews say, make a man unclean in one week, and by two signs, the white hair, and the spreading; by the white hair, both at the beginning and at the end of the week after dismission, and by spreading at the end of the week after it f445.

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