Leviticus 14:57

57 to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.

Leviticus 14:57 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
English Standard Version (ESV)
57 to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.
New Living Translation (NLT)
57 This procedure will determine whether a person or object is ceremonially clean or unclean. “These are the instructions regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
The Message Bible (MSG)
57 in order to determine when it is unclean and when it is clean. These are the procedures regarding infectious skin diseases and mildew and fungus."
American Standard Version (ASV)
57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
57 These instructions for skin diseases and mildew help you distinguish between what is clean and what is unclean."
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
57 to determine when something is unclean or clean. This is the law regarding skin disease and mildew."
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
57 Use those rules to decide whether something is "clean" or not. Those are the rules for skin diseases and for mold.

Leviticus 14:57 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:57

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.

Leviticus 14:57 In-Context

55 for defiling molds in fabric or in a house,
56 and for a swelling, a rash or a shiny spot,
57 to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Leviticus 10:10
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