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Hebrew Texts KJV with Strong's The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in whether it be a woollen garment or a linen garment ויקרא 13:47 Hebrew OT: Westminster Leningrad Codex וְהַבֶּ֕גֶד כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בֹ֖ו נֶ֣גַע צָרָ֑עַת בְּבֶ֣גֶד צֶ֔מֶר אֹ֖ו בְּבֶ֥גֶד פִּשְׁתִּֽים׃ ויקרא 13:47 Hebrew OT: WLC (Consonants Only) ויקרא 13:47 Paleo-Hebrew OT: WLC (Font Required) ויקרא 13:47 Hebrew Bible Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible "When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment, King James Bible The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; Holman Christian Standard Bible If a fabric is contaminated with mildew--in wool or linen fabric, Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The garment This leprosy in garments appears so strange to us, that it has induced some, with B. Patrick, to consider it as an extraordinary punishment inflicted by God upon the Israelites, as a sign of his high displeasure; while others consider the leprosy in clothes (and also houses) as having no relation to the leprosy in man. When Michaelis was considering the subject, he was told by a dealer in wool, the wool of sheep which die of a disease, if it has not been shorn from the animal while living, is unfit to manufacture cloth, and liable to something like what Moses here describes, and which he imagines to be the plague of leprosy in garments. The whole account, however, as Dr. A. Clarke observes, seems to intimate that the garment was {fretted} by the contagion of the real leprosy; which it is probable was occasioned by a species of {animacula, or vermin} burrowing in the skin, which we know to be the cause of the {itch}; these, by breeding in the garments, must necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i.e. corrode a portion of the finer parts, after the manner of {moths}, for their nourishment. The infection of garments has frequently been known to cause the worst species of scarlet fever, and even the plague; and those infected with {psora}, or itch animal, had communicated the disease even in six or seven years after the infection. Isaiah 3:16-24 Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, … Isaiah 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves … Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are … Ezekiel 16:16 And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places with … Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast … Ephesians 4:22 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, … Colossians 3:3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even … Links Leviticus 13:47 • Leviticus 13:47 NIV • Leviticus 13:47 NLT • Leviticus 13:47 ESV • Leviticus 13:47 NASB • Leviticus 13:47 KJV • Leviticus 13:47 Bible Apps • Leviticus 13:47 Biblia Paralela • Leviticus 13:47 Chinese Bible • Leviticus 13:47 French Bible • Leviticus 13:47 German Bible • Bible Hub |