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Leviticus 13:46 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 13 · verse 46
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.Leviticus 13:46 · King James Version
Leviticus 13:46 in context
44He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
45And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
47The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
48Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- defiledṭâmêʼto be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral senseH2930 →
- uncleanṭâmêʼfoul in a religious senseH2931 →
- withoutchûwtsproperly, separate by awallH2351 →
- plaguenegaʻa blowH5061 →
- dwellyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- alonebâdâdseparateH910 →
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We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his bald head (Kg2 2:23);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 38-46