Teks -- Leviticus 14:54-57 (NET)

Summary of Purification Regulations for Infections

14:54 “This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall, 14:55 for the diseased garment, for the house, 14:56 for the swelling, for the scab, and for the bright spot, 14:57 to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Lev 14:57 - To teach

To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priests power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might discern no less than the priest.

TSK: Lev 14:54 - the law // scall

the law : Lev 14:2, Lev 14:32, Lev 6:9, Lev 6:14, Lev 6:25, Lev 7:1, Lev 7:37, Lev 11:46, Lev 15:32; Num 5:29, Num 6:13, Num 19:14; Deu 24:8

scall : Lev 13:30, Lev 13:31

TSK: Lev 14:55 - the leprosy // of a house

the leprosy : Lev 13:47-59

of a house : Lev 14:34

TSK: Lev 14:56 - a rising

a rising : Lev 13:2

TSK: Lev 14:57 - teach // when it is unclean, and when it is clean // this is

teach : Lev 10:10; Jer 15:19; Eze 44:23

when it is unclean, and when it is clean : Heb. in the day of the unclean, and in the day of the clean

this is : Deu 24:8

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Lev 14:57

To teach; to direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priest’ s power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might discern no less than the priest.

Haydock: Lev 14:54 - Stroke

Stroke. Hebrew, "scurf," ulcers, wounds, &c. (Calmet) ---

"The leprosy of the head or beard," Chaldean. (Montanus) (Tirinus)

Haydock: Lev 14:57 - Be known when

Be known when. Hebrew, "to teach in what day, &c.....This is the law of leprosy." (Haydock)

Gill: Lev 14:54 - This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall.

This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall. The leprosy in general in the bodies of men, and of that in particular which was on the head and beard, and went by the name of the scall, Lev 13:29. In Lev 14:54 is a recapitulation of the several laws and rules relating to leprosy of all kinds, delivered in this and the preceding chapter.

Gill: Lev 14:55 - And for the leprosy of a garment // and of an house

And for the leprosy of a garment,.... Of which see Lev 13:47,

and of an house; largely treated of in this chapter, Lev 14:34.

Gill: Lev 14:56 - And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot.

And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot. Which were three sorts of leprosy in the skin of man's flesh; See Gill on Lev 13:2.

Gill: Lev 14:57 - To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean // this is the law of leprosy

To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean,.... A man, his garment, or his house; for it respects them all, as Aben Ezra observes; which was the business of the priests to teach men, and they by the above laws and rules were instructed how to judge of cases, and by which they were capable of pronouncing persons or things clean or unclean:

this is the law of leprosy; respecting every sort of it, and which is very remarkably enlarged upon.