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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Leviticus 13:18

"Someone might get a boil on their skin that heals over.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Boil;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Boils;   Diseases;   Health-Disease;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leprosy;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Diseases;   Leviticus;   Sore;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Boil (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boil;   Leprosy;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
King James Version
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
Lexham English Bible
"And when someone's body has a skin sore on his skin and it is healed
New Century Version
"Someone may have a boil on his skin that is healed.
New English Translation
"When someone's body has a boil on its skin and it heals,
Amplified Bible
"And when there is on the skin of the body [the scar of] a boil that is healed,
New American Standard Bible
"Now when the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The flesh also in whose skin there is a bile and is healed,
Legacy Standard Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
Contemporary English Version
If you have a sore that either swells or turns reddish-white after it has healed, then you must show it to a priest.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: iii) "If a person has on his skin a boil that heals
Darby Translation
And the flesh—when in the skin thereof cometh a boil, and it is healed,
English Standard Version
"If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals,
George Lamsa Translation
The flesh also, if there is in the skin thereof a boil and it is healed,
Good News Translation
If any of you have a boil that has healed
Christian Standard Bible®
“When a boil appears on the skin of someone’s body and it heals,
Literal Translation
And when the flesh has a boil in its skin, and it has been healed,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan there is a byle in the ßkynne of eny mans flesh, and healeth agayne,
American Standard Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
Bible in Basic English
And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The fleshe also in whose skinne there is a byle, and is healed,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
King James Version (1611)
The flesh also, in which, euen in the skinne thereof was a bile, and is healed,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if the flesh should have become an ulcer in his skin, and should be healed,
English Revised Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
Berean Standard Bible
When a boil appears on someone's skin and it heals,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fleisch and skyn, in which a botche is bred,
Young's Literal Translation
`And when flesh hath in it, in its skin, an ulcer, and it hath been healed,
Update Bible Version
And when the flesh has a boil on it, and it is healed,
Webster's Bible Translation
The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin of it, was a boil, and is healed,
World English Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
New King James Version
"If the body develops a boil in the skin, and it is healed,
New Living Translation
"If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
New Life Bible
"When there is a sore on the skin of the body that has been healed,
New Revised Standard
When there is on the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any one's flesh, hath, in the skin thereof, a boil, - and then it is healed;
Douay-Rheims Bible
When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed:
Revised Standard Version
"And when there is in the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,
THE MESSAGE
"When a person has a boil and it heals and in place of the boil there is white swelling or a reddish-white shiny spot, the person must present himself to the priest for an examination. If it looks like it has penetrated the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has broken out in the boil. But if the examination shows that there is no white hair in it and it is only skin deep and has faded, the priest will put him in quarantine for seven days. If it then spreads over the skin, the priest will diagnose him as unclean. It is infectious. But if the shiny spot has not changed and hasn't spread, it's only a scar from the boil. The priest will pronounce him clean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Contextual Overview

18 "Someone might get a boil on their skin that heals over. 19 Then that boil might become a white swelling or a bright, white spot with red streaks in it. If this happens, the person must show that spot to the priest. 20 The priest must look at it. If the swelling is deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has become white, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. The spot is leprosy that has broken out from inside the boil. 21 But if the priest looks at the spot, and there are no white hairs in it, and the spot is not deeper than the skin but is faded, the priest must separate the person for seven days. 22 If the spot spreads on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is unclean; it is an infection. 23 But if the bright spot stays in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar from the old boil. The priest must announce that the person is clean. 24"Someone might get a burn on the skin. If the raw skin becomes a white spot or a white spot with red streaks in it, the priest must look at it. If that white spot seems to be deeper than the skin, and the hair at that spot has become white, it is leprosy that has broken out in the burn. The priest must announce that the person is unclean. 26 But if the priest looks at the spot, and there is no white hair in the bright spot, and the spot is not deeper than the skin but is faded, the priest must separate the person for seven days. 27 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the person again. If the spot has spread on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is leprosy. 28 But if the bright spot has not spread on the skin but has faded, it is only a scar from the burn. The priest must announce that the person is clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a boil: Exodus 9:9, Exodus 15:26, 2 Kings 20:7, Job 2:7, Psalms 38:3-7, Isaiah 38:21

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:25 - turned white

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.
Genesis 13:4
This was where Abram had built an altar earlier. So he worshiped the Lord there.
Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.
Genesis 14:13
One of the men who had escaped went to Abram the Hebrew and told him what happened. Abram was camped near the trees of Mamre the Amorite. Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner had made an agreement to help each other, and they had also signed an agreement to help Abram.
Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.
Genesis 23:2
She died in the city of Kiriath Arba (Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried for her there.
Genesis 35:27
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Genesis 37:14
His father said, "Go and see if your brothers are safe. Come back and tell me if my sheep are all fine." So Joseph's father sent him from the Valley of Hebron to Shechem.
Numbers 13:22
They entered the country through the Negev and went to Hebron. (The town of Hebron was built seven years before the town of Zoan in Egypt.) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived there. These men were descendants of Anak.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides n you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah o, it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer:

and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever.

n In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect. 8. o Ib. c. 9. sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 13:18. In the skin thereof, was a boilScheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.


 
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