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2017 April 26




Image 1: High Altar of St Mary (Pouring the Bathing Water) - (1477-1489)
Veit Stoss (c. 1450 - 1533)
Late (or International) Gothic and Northern Renaissance Styles
Church of St. Mary, Cracow, Poland
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art

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Image 2: Washing in the Sun (1905)
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907)
Neo-Impressionist Style
Private Collection
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art


SPECIAL NOTE:

[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no days will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]


     Explanation: Leviticus 14 contains the offerings for cleansing a leper and for cleansing leprosy in garments and houses. When a leper is cleansed, the priest examines him outside the camp and takes two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. He kills one bird in an earthen vessel over running water, dips the living bird in the dead bird's blood, sprinkles the blood on the leper, pronounces him clean, and releases the living bird into the open field. The cleansed person washes his clothes, shaves off all his hair, washes himself in water, and comes into the camp, but stays out of his tent for seven days. He then shaves off all his hair, washes his clothes, washes himself, and is clean (1-9).
     On the eighth day he brings two male lambs and one ewe lamb with six pints of fine flour mingled with oil, and one pint of oil. First, he offers a male lamb for a trespass offering in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are offered, adding to it a log (pint) of oil for a wave offering. The priest then takes some of the blood and puts it on the right earlobe, the right thumb, and the right large toe. He does the same with the oil of the wave offering, taking a handful, and putting it on the same spots on top of the blood. In addition, the priest pours the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one who is to be cleansed. The priest then offers the sin offering (which is the female lamb), the burnt offering (which is the second male lamb), and, finally, the food offering: by these the leper is cleansed (10-20).
     If, however, the leper is poor, he can offer one lamb for a trespass offering which will then be waved as a wave offering, accompanied by a meal offering of six pints of flour mingled with oil, and a log (pint) of oil, plus two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. These are offered on the eighth day of his cleansing. The priest then uses the blood of the trespass offering to anoint the leper's right earlobe, right thumb, and right great toe. The priest does the same with the oil, sprinkling some before the LORD, then anointing the earlobe, thumb, and toe on the blood spots. With the rest he anoints the leper's head. The leper then offers the birds, one for a sin offering, the other for a burnt offering, together with the meal offering (21-32).
     If a house seems to have a leprosy, the priest will empty the house and inspect it. If the walls have green or red spots below the surface, the priest will shut it up for seven days; and afterward he will remove the stones, if the disease spreads, and remove them to an unclean place outside the city. The stones will be replaced (33-42). If the disease breaks out again, the house shall be destroyed, and all its material will be removed to an unclean place. Anyone who goes into the house while it is quarantined will be unclean until the evening. And anyone who eats in the house or lies down in it will wash their clothes (43-47). But if the house is healed of its plague, it will be cleansed with two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. The priest will kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. He will then take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. He will then let the living bird go outside the city in the open fields (48-56).
     [ Sermons: William Still. Various. ]
     [ Illustration: Today's images depict various aspects of washing, which is an emphasis in Leviticus 14. Washing was an important part of cleansing for leprosy. Preparation for bathing is depicted in the First Image. The Second Image depicts the cleansing of fabrics, which was one of the specific things which had to be cleansed in cases of leprosy. ]







RESOURCES

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          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Leviticus 14: [2] Matthew 8:4. [7] Leviticus 4:6; 2 Kings 5:10; 2 Kings 5:14. [8] Leviticus 6:20; Leviticus 11:25; Numbers 8:7; Leviticus 15:10. [9] Numbers 19:7; Leviticus 15:13. [10] Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 12:6. [12] Leviticus 5:6. [13] Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 6:25; Leviticus 6:18. [49] Leviticus 13:5. [43] Leviticus 13:51. [48] Leviticus 13:6; Leviticus 13:58. [57] Leviticus 13:2. -- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]




HARMONY OF THE LAW


John Calvin - CCEL | Analytical Chart - BLB




GOSPEL HARMONIES

Gospel Harmony - Summary | The Harmony of the Gospels - Augustine | Gospel Harmony Chart - Online Bible

Greek Harmony of the Gospels - Robertson - (Downloadable PDF) | Gospel Harmony in English - Robertson - (Downloadable PDF)




HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES


Bible Hub Interlinear Hebrew and Greek Bible


Bible Hub Hebrew Interlinear | Scripture 4 All Hebrew Interlinear


Mounce Interlinear | Bible Hub Greek Interlinear | Scripture 4 All Greek Interlinear Bible





Pentateuch Detailed Outline:

Genesis Detailed Outline:

Exodus Detailed Outline:

Leviticus Detailed Outline

Old Testament Offerings Chart





Leviticus 14


{Pentateuch Outline: Section 13. Generations of Levi - Ex 6:14 - Nu 2:34) - 1446 - 1445 B.C. Egypt & Sinai}

2. Promised (Covenanted) Instruction (Ex 19:1 - Nu 2:34) - 1446 - 1445 B.C. Sinai, which,
in Exodus = Instruction for the People in General (or "THE VISITS") (Ex 19:1 - Ex 40:38) - 1446 - 1445 B.C. Sinai

1. Laws for Tabernacle Service (Lv 1:1 - Lv 10:20) - 1445 B.C. Sinai

2. Laws for the Covenant Community (Lv 11:1 - Lv 27:34) - 1445 B.C. Sinai

(NOTE: This section, (Laws for the Covenant Community), properly understood, gives a fairly complete infusion of the law into the mind and emotions of the Israelites. Many laws are repeated and have multiple implications. The net effect would be that anyone who was sensitive to the law and took it to heart would realize that violation of these laws would produce impurity, loathsomeness, punishment, and cursedness. This personalized and emotionalized the law. The positive benefits of the law did the same. Keeping it gave cleanness, atonement, acceptance, holiness, safety, rest, blessing, and consecration to God.)

     1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be bought unto the priest: 3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; 4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet [scarlet worm], and hyssop: 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet [scarlet worm], and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. 9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows [arches of his eyes], even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
     10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: 13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so isthe trespass offering: it is most holy [holy of holies]: 14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: 15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand: 16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD: 17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering: 18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD. 19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering: 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
     21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much [and there is nothing in his hand to hold] ; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil; 22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get [able to grasp]; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. 23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD. 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: 26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand: 27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD: 28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering: 29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD. 30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get [is able to grasp]; 31 Even such as he is able to get [is able to grasp], the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD. 32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
     33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 And he that owneth the house come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: 37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; 38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: 39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; 40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: 42 And they shall take other stones , and put them in the place of those stones ; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
     43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones , and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. 46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. 47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
     48 And if the priest shall come in [coming he comes], and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean [shall pronounce clean the house], because the plague is healed. 49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet [scarlet worm], and hyssop: 50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet [scarlet worm], and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle [sprinkle upon] the house seven times: 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet [scarlet worm]: 53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
     54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall, 55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house, 56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: 57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.




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