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Levítico 14:8

Y el que se purifica lavará sus vestidos, y raerá todos sus pelos, y se ha de lavar con agua, y será limpio: y después entrará en el real, y morará fuera de su tienda siete días.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ablution;   Purification;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cleansing;   Defilement-Cleansing;   Disease;   Health-Disease;   Quarantine;   Washing;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Purifications or Baptisms;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Leper;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Miriam;   Seven;   Water;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baths;   Nail;   Purification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hyssop;   Leper;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Bathing;   Clean, Cleanness;   Hair;   Leviticus;   Purity-Purification;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bird;   Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Purification (2);   King James Dictionary - Cleanse;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leper;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Purification,;   Razor;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Birds;   Dove;   Genesis;   John the Baptist;   Talmud;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Mishnah;   Shaving;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Luego el que ha de ser purificado lavará su ropa, se rasurará todo el cabello, se bañará en agua y quedará limpio. Después podrá entrar al campamento, pero por siete días permanecerá fuera de su tienda.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y el que ha de ser purificado lavar� sus vestiduras, y raer� todo su pelo, y se ha de lavar con agua, y ser� limpio; y despu�s entrar� en el campamento, y morar� fuera de su tienda siete d�as.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y el que se purifica lavar� sus vestidos, y raer� todo su pelo, y se lavar� con agua, y ser� limpio; y despu�s entrar� en el real, y morar� fuera de su tienda siete d�as.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wash his: Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 13:6, Leviticus 15:5-8, Exodus 19:10, Exodus 19:14, Numbers 8:7, Revelation 7:14

wash himself: Leviticus 8:6, 1 Peter 3:21, Revelation 1:5, Revelation 1:6

and shall: Numbers 12:15

seven days: Leviticus 8:33-35, Leviticus 13:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:4 - wash them Exodus 29:35 - seven days Leviticus 8:35 - the tabernacle Leviticus 9:1 - the eighth day Leviticus 11:40 - shall wash Leviticus 14:47 - wash his clothes Leviticus 15:13 - seven days Leviticus 16:26 - wash Numbers 12:14 - let her be Numbers 19:7 - General John 13:5 - to wash Hebrews 9:10 - divers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes,.... That there may be no remains of the infection in them, and that they might not convey an ill scent to others: so the conversation garments of the saints are to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, Revelation 7:14;

and shave off all his hair; what is here expressed in general is more particularly declared in Leviticus 14:9; the hair of his head, beard, and eyebrows; according to Gersom, this was done by the priest, and so Maimonides says g, that none but a priest might shave him; and yet the text seems plainly to ascribe this, as well as the washing of his clothes and himself, to the leper that was to be cleansed; and the same writers say, that if two hairs were left it was no shaving; and so says the Misnah h: the shaving of the leper's hairs signified the weakening of the strength of sin; the mortification of the deeds of the body, through the Spirit, and the laying aside all superfluity of naughtiness, and the excrescences of the flesh; a parting with every thing that grows out of a man's self, sin or self-righteousness; a laying a man bare and open, that nothing may lie hid and covered, and escape cleansing:

and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: which was to be done by dipping in a collection of water, and not in running water, as Gersom observes, in a quantity of water sufficient to cover the whole body; which, according to the Talmud i, was forty seahs, and was a cubit square in breadth, and three cubits deep: this may denote the washing of sinful men with the washing of regeneration, but more especially with the blood of Christ, the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, Zechariah 13:1;

and after that he shall come into the camp; into the camp of Israel, while in the wilderness, and in after times into the city, where he used to dwell; and may sign try the admittance of such into the church of God again, who appear to be cleansed from sin, to have true repentance towards God for it, and faith in the blood of Christ:

and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days; that is, out of his own tent or house, where his wife and family dwelt: this precaution was taken, lest there should be any remains of his disorder lurking, in him that might endanger his wife and family, especially his wife, with whom he was to have no conjugal conversation as yet; so it is said in the Misnah k, that he was to be separated from his house seven days, and forbid the use of the marriage bed; and this prohibition. Jarchi thinks is intended in this clause, and so Maimonides l, to which agrees the Targum of Jonathan,

"he shall sit without the tent of the house of his habitation, and shall not come near to the side of his wife seven days.''

g Hilchot Tumaat Tzarat, c. 11. sect. 3. h Negaim, c. 14. sect. 4. i T. Bab. Eruvin, fol. 14. 1, 2. k Ut supra, (Misn. Negaim, c. 11) sect. 2. l Ut supra, (Hilchot Tumaat Tzarat, c. 11.) sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 14:8. And shave off all his hair — That the water by which he was to be washed should reach every part of his body, that he might be cleansed from whatever defilement might remain on any part of the surface of his body. The Egyptian priests shaved the whole body every third day, to prevent all manner of defilement.


 
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