Leviticus 14:57

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to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 10:10 : 10 as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,
  • Deut 24:8 : 8 Respect for Human Dignity Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.
  • Jer 15:19 : 19 Because of this, the LORD said,“You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.
  • Ezek 44:23 : 23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

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  • Lev 14:1-3
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    1Purification of Diseased Skin Infections The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest.

    3The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. If the infection of the diseased person has been healed,

  • Lev 14:54-56
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    54Summary of Purification Regulations for Infections“This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall,

    55for the diseased garment, for the house,

    56for the swelling, for the scab, and for the bright spot,

  • Lev 13:58-59
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    58But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

    59Summary of Infection Regulations This is the law of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

  • Lev 14:31-34
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    31a sin offering and the other a burnt offering along with the grain offering. So the priest is to make atonement for the one being cleansed before the LORD.

    32This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, who does not have sufficient means for his purification.”

    33Purification of Disease-Infected Houses The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    34“When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

  • Lev 13:11-15
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    11it is a chronic disease on the skin of his body, so the priest is to pronounce him unclean. The priest must not merely quarantine him, for he is unclean.

    12If, however, the disease breaks out on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see,

    13the priest must then examine it, and if the disease covers his whole body, he is to pronounce the person with the infection clean. He has turned all white, so he is clean.

    14But whenever raw flesh appears in it he will be unclean,

    15so the priest is to examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean– it is diseased.

  • Lev 13:27-28
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    27The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection.

    28But if the bright spot stays in its place, has not spread on the skin, and it has faded, then it is the swelling of the burn, so the priest is to pronounce him clean, because it is the scar of the burn.

  • Lev 13:6-9
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    6The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean. It is a scab, so he must wash his clothes and be clean.

    7If, however, the scab is spreading further on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his purification, then he must show himself to the priest a second time.

    8The priest must then examine it, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a disease.

    9A Swelling on the Skin“When someone has a diseased infection, he must be brought to the priest.

  • Lev 14:44
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    44the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.

  • Lev 13:1-4
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    1Infections on the Skin The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    2“When someone has a swelling or a scab or a bright spot on the skin of his body that may become a diseased infection, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or one of his sons, the priests.

    3The priest must then examine the infection on the skin of the body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of the body, then it is a diseased infection, so when the priest examines it he must pronounce the person unclean.

    4A Bright Spot on the Skin“If it is a white bright spot on the skin of his body, but it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair has not turned white, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the infection for seven days.

  • Lev 14:7-8
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    7and sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed from the disease, pronounce him clean, and send the live bird away over the open countryside.

    8The Seven Days of Purification“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.

  • Lev 13:51
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    51He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather– whatever the article into which the leather was made– the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

  • Lev 13:22
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    22If it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is an infection.

  • Lev 13:25
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    25the priest must examine it, and if the hair has turned white in the bright spot and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a diseased infection.

  • Lev 13:44
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    44he is a diseased man. He is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head.

  • Deut 24:8
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    8Respect for Human Dignity Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

  • Lev 13:20
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    20The priest will then examine it, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil.

  • Lev 13:46-47
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    46The whole time he has the infection he will be continually unclean. He must live in isolation, and his place of residence must be outside the camp.

    47Infections in Garments, Cloth, or Leather“When a garment has a diseased infection in it, whether a wool or linen garment,

  • Lev 15:32
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    32This is the law for the one with a discharge: for the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

  • Lev 13:35
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    35If, however, the scall spreads further on the skin after his purification,

  • Lev 15:7
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    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 13:54-55
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    54the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the infection and quarantine it for another seven days.

    55The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if the infection has not changed its appearance even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article.

  • Lev 15:13
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    13Purity Regulations for Male Bodily Discharges“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.

  • Lev 13:17-18
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    17The priest will then examine it, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the person with the infection clean– he is clean.

    18A Boil on the Skin“When someone’s body has a boil on its skin and it heals,

  • Lev 13:49
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    49if the infection in the garment or leather or warp or woof or any article of leather is yellowish green or reddish, it is a diseased infection and it must be shown to the priest.

  • Lev 15:1-2
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    1Male Bodily Discharges The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

  • Lev 14:11
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    11and the priest who pronounces him clean will have the man who is being cleansed stand along with these offerings before the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.