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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Leviticus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 211,561 words · 404 reading sections
Leviticus 11:16
Leviticus 11:16 Ver. 16. And the owl,.... The great and little owls being after mentioned, it seems best, by the word here used, to understand the "ostrich" with the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, the Oriental versions, and the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan: the account which Pliny {p} gives of the African and Ethiopic …
792 wordsSECTION 182Leviticus 11:17
Leviticus 11:17 Ver. 17. And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl. Ainsworth translates the words just the reverse, and takes the first word to signify the great owl, and the last the little one; the great owl may intend the great horn owl, called sometimes the eagle owl, which is thus described; it is…
605 wordsSECTION 183Leviticus 11:18
Leviticus 11:18 Ver. 18. And the swan,.... This is a bird well known to us, but it is a question whether it is intended by the word here used; for though it is so rendered in the Vulgate Latin, it is differently rendered by many others: the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it "otia", which seems to be the same w…
10,315 wordsSECTION 184Leviticus 12:1
Leviticus 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 12 This chapter treats of the purification of a new mother, the time of whose purification for a man child was forty days, and for a maid child eighty, Le 12:1 at the close of which she was to bring her offerings to the priests, to make atonement for her, Le 12:6. Ver. 1. And…
188 wordsSECTION 185Leviticus 12:2
Leviticus 12:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel,.... For this law only concerned them, and not other nations of the world: if a woman have conceived seed; by lying with a man, and so becomes pregnant, and goes on with her pregnancy until she brings forth a child. The Jews from hence gather, that this law res…
284 wordsSECTION 186Leviticus 12:3
Leviticus 12:3 Ver. 3. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Or the foreskin of his flesh, that is, of the man child born according to the law, Ge 17:12 and this seems to furnish out a reason why a male child was not circumcised before the eighth day, and why it was then, because before…
186 wordsSECTION 187Leviticus 12:4
Leviticus 12:4 Ver. 4. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days,.... That is, so many more, in all forty; for though at the end of seven days she was in some respects free from her uncleanness, yet not altogether, but remained in the blood of her purifying, or in the purifying of her …
272 wordsSECTION 188Leviticus 12:5
Leviticus 12:5 Ver. 5. But if she bear a maid child,.... A daughter, whether born alive or dead, if she goes with it her full time: then she shall be unclean two weeks; or fourteen days running; and on the fifteenth day be free or loosed, as the Targum of Jonathan, just as long again as for a man child: as in her se…
456 wordsSECTION 189Leviticus 12:6
Leviticus 12:6 Ver. 6. And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter,.... For a son forty days, and for a daughter eighty; but the ancient Jews formerly, that they might not break it, ordered, that the offering enjoined as follows should not be brought until the next day after the time…
717 wordsSECTION 190Leviticus 12:7
Leviticus 12:7 Ver. 7. Who shall offer it before the Lord,.... Upon the altar of burnt offering: and make an atonement for her; for whatsoever sin in connection with or that attended childbearing; as typical of the atonement by Christ both for sin original and actual: and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her …
168 wordsSECTION 191Leviticus 12:8
Leviticus 12:8 Ver. 8. And if she be not able to bring a lamb,.... As everyone was not in circumstances sufficient to be at the expense of buying a lamb for this purpose, having none of their own: then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; which was a kind and merciful provision for the poorer sort; sinc…
228 wordsSECTION 192Leviticus 13:1
Leviticus 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 13 In this chapter an account is given of the various sorts of leprosy, and the rules by which they were to be judged of, Le 13:1 of the bright spot and scab, Le 13:4 of the rising or swelling, Le 13:9 of the bile or hot ulcer, Le 13:18 of the hot burning or inflammation, Le 1…
230 wordsSECTION 193Leviticus 13:2
Leviticus 13:2 Ver. 2. When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh,.... Rules are here given, by which a leprosy might be judged of; which, as a disease, was frequent in Egypt, where the Israelites had dwelt a long time, and from whence they were just come; and is doubtless the reason, as learned men have observed,…
891 wordsSECTION 194Leviticus 13:3
Leviticus 13:3 Ver. 3. And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh,.... Whether it be a swelling, scab, or a bright spot that appears, and judge of it by the following rules, and none but a priest might do this: and [when] the hair in the plague is turned white; it arising in a place where hair g…
513 wordsSECTION 195Leviticus 13:4
Leviticus 13:4 Ver. 4. If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh,.... The Targum of Jonathan is, white as chalk in the skin of his flesh; but other Jewish writers make the whiteness of the bright spot to be the greatest of all, like that of snow; See Gill on "Le 13:2": and in sight [be] not deeper than the…
209 wordsSECTION 196Leviticus 13:5
Leviticus 13:5 Ver. 5. And the priest shall look on him the seventh day,.... In the day, and not in the night, as Maimonides, but not on the seventh day, if it happened to be on the sabbath {f}, then it was put off till after it; and, according to the Jewish canons {g}, they do not look upon plagues in the morning, no…
190 wordsSECTION 197Leviticus 13:6
Leviticus 13:6 Ver. 6. And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day,.... On the second seventh day, at the end of a fortnight from his being first presented to him, and shut up: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat dark; the spot be not so bright, or so white as it was at first; though Aben Ezra obser…
364 wordsSECTION 198Leviticus 13:7
Leviticus 13:7 Ver. 7. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin,.... Or "in spreading spread" {k}; spreads, and proceeds to spread more and more: after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing: even after he had been viewed upon the first presentation of him to him, and after he had been twice see…
128 wordsSECTION 199Leviticus 13:8
Leviticus 13:8 Ver. 8. And [if] the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin,.... Is not at a stay, as when he looked at it a second and third time: then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; a leprous person; to be absolutely so, as Jarchi expresses it; and so obliged to the birds (to bring birds fo…
153 wordsSECTION 200Leviticus 13:9
Leviticus 13:9 Ver. 9. When the plague of leprosy is in a man,.... He has all the signs of it, and it is pretty manifest both to himself and others that it is upon him; then he shall be brought unto the priest; by his friends and neighbours, if he is not willing to come of himself: a sinner insensible of the leprosy …
148 wordsSECTION 201Leviticus 13:10
Leviticus 13:10 Ver. 10. And the priest shall see [him],.... Look at him, and closely and narrowly inspect and examine his case: and, behold, [if] the rising [be] white in the skin; this is another appearance of the leprosy; the preceding were a bright spot, and the scab of it; but this a rising or white swelling in …
374 wordsSECTION 202Leviticus 13:11
Leviticus 13:11 Ver. 11. It [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh,.... An inveterate one, of long standing and continuance, an obstinate one, not to be cured by medicine; as this sort of leprosy was, and therefore the person was sent not to a physician, but to the priest: the leprosy of sin is an old disease, b…
163 wordsSECTION 203Leviticus 13:12
Leviticus 13:12 Ver. 12. And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin,.... Or, if flowering it flowers {m}; the man that has it on him looks like a plant or tree covered with white flowers, being spread all over him in white swellings, bright spots or scabs, as it follows: and the leprosy cover all the skin of [him …
9,216 wordsSECTION 204Leviticus 14:1
Leviticus 14:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 14 This chapter treats of the purification of lepers, and the rules to be observed therein; and first what the priest was to do for his cleansing when brought to him, by making use of two birds, with cedar wood, scarlet and hyssop, as directed, Le 14:1; what he was to do for h…
269 wordsSECTION 205Leviticus 14:2
Leviticus 14:2 Ver. 2. This shall be the law of the leper, in the day of his cleansing,.... Or the rules, rites, ceremonies, and sacrifices to be observed therein. Jarchi says, from hence we learn that they were not to purify a leper in the night: he shall be brought unto the priest: not into the camp, or city, or ho…
268 wordsSECTION 206Leviticus 14:3
Leviticus 14:3 Ver. 3. And the priest shall go forth out of the camp,.... A little without the camp, as Ben Gersom notes. There have been several goings forth of Christ our High Priest; first in the council and covenant of grace and peace, when he became the surety of his people; then in time by the assumption of huma…
300 wordsSECTION 207Leviticus 14:4
Leviticus 14:4 Ver. 4. Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed,.... The command is by the priest, the taking is by any man, as Ben Gersom observes; anyone whom he shall command, the leper himself, or his friends. Aben Ezra interprets it, the priest shall take of his own; but he adds, there…
999 wordsSECTION 208Leviticus 14:5
Leviticus 14:5 Ver. 5. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed,.... That is, shall command another priest to kill one of them, or an Israelite, as Aben Ezra; and who also observes, that some say the leper, or the butcher, as the Targum of Jonathan; the killing of this bird, not being a sacrifice, …
337 wordsSECTION 209Leviticus 14:6
Leviticus 14:6 Ver. 6. As for the living bird, he shall take it,.... And dispose of it as after directed; for there was an use for that: and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop; which were all bound up in one bundle, but whether the living bird was joined to them is a question; according to Jarchi they we…
395 wordsSECTION 210Leviticus 14:7
Leviticus 14:7 Ver. 7. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times,.... With the hyssop fastened to the cedar stick, with the scarlet wool or thread bound about it, dipped into the blood and water in the earthen vessel; to which the psalmist alludes, Ps 51:7; the Egyptians had a …
531 wordsSECTION 211Leviticus 14:8
Leviticus 14:8 Ver. 8. 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, Re 7:14; and shave off all his hair; what…
562 wordsSECTION 212Leviticus 14:9
Leviticus 14:9 Ver. 9. But it shall be on the seventh day,.... After he was first brought to the priest, and cleansed by the two birds, taken and used for him as directed, and he had been shaved and washed: that he shall shave all his hair; a second time, whatsoever was grown in those seven days: all off his head, a…
270 wordsSECTION 213Leviticus 14:10
Leviticus 14:10 Ver. 10. And on the eighth day,.... From the leper's first appearance before the priest, and the day after the above things were done, in Le 14:9: he shall take two he lambs without blemish; the one for a trespass offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and both typical of Christ the Lamb of God…
227 wordsSECTION 214Leviticus 14:11
Leviticus 14:11 Ver. 11. And the priest that maketh [him] clean,.... By the above rites and ceremonies, and the after sacrifices offered: shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things before the Lord; the two he lambs, and the ewe lamb; and it seems also the meat offerings, and the log of oil; but …
235 wordsSECTION 215Leviticus 14:12
Leviticus 14:12 Ver. 12. And the priest shall take one he lamb,.... One of the he lambs brought by the leper for his offering: and offer him for a trespass offering; for though the leprosy itself was a disorder or disease, and not sinful, yet the cause of it was sin, a trespass against God, and therefore a trespass o…
165 wordsSECTION 216Leviticus 14:13
Leviticus 14:13 Ver. 13. And he shall slay the lamb,.... The priest, or the butcher, as the Targum of Jonathan, the slaughterer, the priest appointed for that service; at which time both the hands of the leper were laid upon it, as says the Misnah {p}; for though the leper might not go into the court as yet, the sacri…
233 wordsSECTION 217Leviticus 14:14
Leviticus 14:14 Ver. 14. And the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass offering,.... According to the Misnah {r}, two priests received the blood of it, one in a vessel and the other in his hand; he that received it in a vessel went and sprinkled it upon the wall (or top, as Maimonides {s}) of the altar…
6,833 wordsSECTION 218Leviticus 15:1
Leviticus 15:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 15 This chapter treats of uncleanness by issues in men and women; in men, a running issue, Le 15:1, which defiles him, and everything he touches, or that touches him or them, Le 15:4; the cleansing from which is directed to, Le 15:13; and seed flowing from him, Le 15:16; in wo…
137 wordsSECTION 219Leviticus 15:2
Leviticus 15:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel,.... From whence we learn, says the above mentioned writer, that these uncleannesses were only usual among the children of Israel, not among the Gentiles; that is, the laws respecting them were only binding on the one, and not on the other {s}: and say unto the…
194 wordsSECTION 220Leviticus 15:3
Leviticus 15:3 Ver. 3. And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue,.... Or the sign of it, by which it may be judged whether he is unclean by it or no: whether his flesh run with his issue; or salivates, or emits a flow of matter like a saliva, or in the manner of spittle: or his flesh be stopped from his issue; …
141 wordsSECTION 221Leviticus 15:4
Leviticus 15:4 Ver. 4. Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the issue is unclean,.... Which he constantly makes use of; so the Targum of Jonathan, which is peculiar to him, and appointed and appropriated for him to lie upon. Jarchi says, every bed that is fit to lie upon, thou is appropriated to another service; but, …
223 wordsSECTION 222Leviticus 15:5
Leviticus 15:5 Ver. 5. And whosoever toucheth his bed,.... Is unclean. According to the Misnah {x}, a bed defiles a man seven ways, so as to defile garments; standing, sitting, lying, hanging, and leaning, and by touching, and by bearing: shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water; in forty seahs of water, …
92 wordsSECTION 223Leviticus 15:6
Leviticus 15:6 Ver. 6. And he that sitteth on [any] thing whereon he sat that hath the issue,.... Shall be unclean, even though he does not touch it. Jarchi says, though there should be, as he adds, ten things or vessels one upon another, they all defile because of sitting, and so by lying: shall wash his clothes, an…
81 wordsSECTION 224Leviticus 15:7
Leviticus 15:7 Ver. 7. And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue,.... Shall also be unclean, even any part of his flesh, or member of his body: the Jewish canon is {y}, he that toucheth one that has an issue, or he that has an issue touches him, or anyone moves him that has an issue, or he moves him, d…
125 wordsSECTION 225Leviticus 15:8
Leviticus 15:8 Ver. 8. And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean,.... Not purposely, which is not usual for a man to do, and whenever it is done, nothing is more affronting; but accidentally, when, as Aben Ezra expresses it, he spreads his spittle, and it falls upon a clean person; and under this, as G…
152 wordsSECTION 226Leviticus 15:9
Leviticus 15:9 Ver. 9. And what saddle soever he sitteth upon that hath the issue,.... When he rides upon any beast, horse, ass, or camel, whatever is put upon the creature, and he sits upon it, the saddle, and whatever appertains to it, the housing and girdle: shall be unclean; and not fit for another to use, but be…
65 wordsSECTION 227Leviticus 15:10
Leviticus 15:10 Ver. 10. And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even,.... Either when lying along, or sitting, or riding, as in Le 15:4; various are the traditions of the Jews concerning these things; if one that has an issue and a clean person sit together, in a ship, or on a be…
147 wordsSECTION 228Leviticus 15:11
Leviticus 15:11 Ver. 11. And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue,.... Not only he that touched him that had the issue, but whomsoever, and indeed whatsoever he touched, as the Targum of Jonathan, the Septuagint, and Arabic versions, were unclean; See Gill on "Le 15:4"; and hath not rinsed his hands in water; w…
193 wordsSECTION 229Leviticus 15:12
Leviticus 15:12 Ver. 12. And the vessel of earth that he toucheth which hath an issue shall be broken,.... That it might not be made use of afterwards; which was ordered, that they might be careful what they touched who were in such circumstances: according to Gersom an earthen vessel received no uncleanness but from …
187 wordsSECTION 230Leviticus 15:13
Leviticus 15:13 Ver. 13. And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue,.... That is, it is ceased from him, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi explain it; for otherwise, according to the ceremonial law, he was not yet cleansed, until he had done everything next prescribed; but when he perceived there was a…
243 wordsSECTION 231Leviticus 15:14
Leviticus 15:14 Ver. 14. And on the eighth day,.... Having on the seventh done as before directed: he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; of his own, or purchase them; this was the meanest offering that was brought, and of the least expense, and which, in other cases, the poorer sort were allowed…
169 wordsSECTION 232Leviticus 15:15
Leviticus 15:15 Ver. 15. And the priest shall offer them, the one [for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering,.... As in the case of a new mother who is poor, and of a poor leper, Le 12:8; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his issue; which, though not in itself sinful, yet…
113 wordsSECTION 233Leviticus 15:16
Leviticus 15:16 Ver. 16. And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him,.... Not in lawful cohabitation, nor voluntarily, but involuntarily, as Aben Ezra observes; not through any disorder, which came by an accident, or in any criminal way, but through a dream, or any lustful imagination; what is commonly called …
139 wordsSECTION 234Leviticus 15:17
Leviticus 15:17 Ver. 17. And every garment, and every skin,.... Or that is made of skin, which a man wears, or lies upon, see Le 13:48; whereon is the seed of copulation; or on any other, for, as Gersom says, there is the same law concerning the rest of vessels, seeing this is a principal uncleanness, and defiles ves…
94 wordsSECTION 235Leviticus 15:18
Leviticus 15:18 Ver. 18. The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation,.... It seems to respect any congress of a man and woman, whether in fornication or adultery, or lawful marriage, and particularly the latter; for though marriage is honourable and holy, and carnal copulation in itself lawful, ye…
1,991 wordsSECTION 236Leviticus 16:1
Leviticus 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 16 This chapter treats of the day of atonement, and of the rites, sacrifices, and services of it, directs when Aaron should come into the holy of holies, Le 16:1; and in what habit he should then appear, and with what offerings both for himself, and for the people, Le 16:3; an…
405 wordsSECTION 237Leviticus 16:2
Leviticus 16:2 Ver. 2. And the Lord said unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother,.... Who was the high priest; and what is here said to him was binding on all high priests in succession from him: that he come not at all times into the holy [place]; or "holiness" {p}, which was holiness itself, or the most holy place…
809 wordsSECTION 238Leviticus 16:3
Leviticus 16:3 Ver. 3. Thus shall Aaron come into the holy [place],.... The most holy place; and this was after he had offered the daily sacrifice of the morning, and had performed the rest of the service then done, as Gersom observes; such as burning the incense and trimming the lamps, for no offering preceded the da…
235 wordsSECTION 239Leviticus 16:4
Leviticus 16:4 Ver. 4. He shall put on the holy linen coat,.... Which he wore in common with other priests: and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh; upon those parts of his body which are more secret, and less honourable flesh, meaning the same, as in Le 15:2: and shall be girded with a linen girdle and …
625 wordsSECTION 240Leviticus 16:5
Leviticus 16:5 Ver. 5. And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel,.... With whom only the high priest had to do on the day of atonement; as Christ our high priest has only with the Israel of God, the elect, given him by the Father, for whom he offered up himself, and for whose sins he made reconci…
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