e This was an extraordinary judgment - of God peculiar to this people, either as a puniſhment oftheir ſins, which were much more ſinful and inexcuſable than the fins of other Nations : or as a ſpe- cia] mean and help to repentance, which God afforded ro ther a-- bove other people ; or as a document of the miſchievous nature of ſin, typified by leproſy, which did nor only deſtroy perſons, 'but
their habitaticns alſo : ſee Zech: 5:4. f Such as were in the bodies of leprous perſons, Levit 13. 3.
338 Thenthe prieſt ſhall go out of the houſe to the door of the houſe, and {bur up the houſe ſeven days.
29 And the prieſt ſhall come again the ſeventh day, and (hal look: andbehold, zf the plague be fpread in the walls of the houſe,
40 Then the prieſt ſhal command that they take a way the ſtones in which the plague 5s, and they ſhall caſt them into an unclean place g without the city.
g Where they uſed to caſt dirt and filthy things. ST
41 And he ſhall c2uſe the houſe to be {craped within round about, and they ſhal-pour outthe duſt þ that they {crape off, without the City into an unclean place.
hþ The Mortar or other Rubbiſh.
42 And they ſhall take other ſtones, and pur chem in the place of thoſe ſtones, and he ſhall take other mor- cer, and fhal plaiſter the houſe.
43 Anc if the plague come again, and break out in che houſe, afrer that he hath taken away the ſtones,and afrer he hath ſcraped the houſle,and after ic isplaiſtered :
44 Then the prieſt {hall 5 and look, and behold
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har. XV. | EI IT IC © >» Chap. XV. Ch: B'S. . | Re . _ 4 he that hath an iſſue toucheth another with unwaſhen hands. Thus | if the plague be {| read _ the houſe, it is a fretting le moſt take it. But why then ſhould it be limited to his hands ? for proly in the houſe: it is unclean, if he had touched him by any other part, as ſuppoſe by kiſſing him, 45 And'he ſhal break down the honſe, the ſtones of | jc had defiled him, though his hands had been waſhed. Or rather, ir, and the timber thereof, andall the morter of the | >: Of the perſon touched to whom the waſhing of his hands is pre-
: -. 3 | ſcribed as an eafier way of cleanſing himſelf, if ſpeedily uſed, but houſe " and he {ball car ry them forch out of the _ if that was negle&ed or delayed, a more laborious courſe was en-
to an unclean place. ; joyned him. And thus the Syriack Interpreter underſtands it. 46: Moreover, he that goeth into the houſe, all the | *,, And the * veſſel of earth that he toucheth which , Chap.s.
while that itis fbuc up, ſbal be unclean until the even. hath the iſſue, ſhal be broken : and every veſlel of wood
47 And hethat leth in the houſe,fhal waſh his clothes: | th4jl be eked Ion wetiair. gp NY and he that eateth in the houſe,ſbal wash his clothes» : I2 And when he that hath an 1llue T cleanſed of his Heb. #n 48 And if the prieſt F qa boy or: wo - iſſue f, then * he ſhall number to himſelf ſeven days * Chap. mine i= and behold, the plague hat os fe. 1N tne NOUIE,At- for his cleanſing g, and walh his clothes, and bathe his 14- 10. comein ter the houſe was plaiſtred, + then the prieft ſhall pro- |feſh in running water, and ſhall beclean þ,
nounce the houſe clean, becauſe the plague is healed. f When his ifſuc is not only ſtopped in part or for a ſeaſon, but 49 And he lthal take to cleanſe the houſe, two birds, | hath wholly ceaſed. g To wit, for the uſe of the Ceremonies pre-
and cedar-wood, 'and ſcarlet, and hyſop. ſcribed in ſuch caſes. See Numb. 19.11, 12. hi.e. Admitted to _ 3 3
converſe with men, and with God in publick ordinances.
14 And on the eighth day he ſhal take to him * two * Chap. turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and come before 14: 22- the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the con - 2regation, and give them unto the prieſt,
I5 And the prieſt ſhall offer them, the one for a ſin-
'5o And he ſhal kill the one of the birds in theearthen veſſel, over running water.
51 And heſhal take the cedar-wood, and the hyſop, and the ſcarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of theſlain bird, andinthe running water,and
ſprinkle the houſe ſeven times FEA b Fe l | 1e . = þ g, and the other fer a burnt-offering,and the prieſt 52 And he ſhal cleanſe the houſe with the blood of | q..11 7! an atonement for him 5 the bird, and with the running water, and with the li- | &. 1-977 + before the LORD, ving bird, and with the cedar-wood,and with the hyſop, | 3; Nor as if this was in it ſelfa ſin, butonly a puniſhment of ſin; and with the ſcarlet. : though oft-times it was ſinful as being a fruit of a mans intempe- '53 And he hal let gothe living bird out of the city | rance, and po" ii Juſt, See Levit: 14. 12. into the open fields, and mike an atonement for the | . 16 And if * any mans ſeed of copulation go out from * Dent. houſe.: and it (ball be clean. _— k, —__ {ball waſh all his fleſh in water, and be 23: 19- 4 This is the law for all manner of plague of leproy | £2&!can until the oven. * Chap. fe 1 s. ok ſcatl, | PIAg P k Not through weakneſs of the parts, as that wer: 3. but-in his
03. 30. | : ſleep, which is called nightly pollurion, which theugh invol , 55 And for the leproſie ofa garment,and of an houſe, mightariſe from ſome luſtful Dream or bation: Burif © 5
F6 And for ariſing, and for a {cab, and for a bright voluntary, and by a mans own procurement when awake, it was | ſpot ; 6 eſteemed abominable, and a degree of murder. See Gen: 38. g. + Heb. in | 57 To teach ; + when 3t is unclean, and when #t is 7 And every garment, and every skin whereon « tbeday of Clean: this z the law of leprofie. the ſeed of copulation ſhall be waſhed with water, and theunclean, + To Gire& the Prieſt when to pronouncea perſon or houſe clean be unclean until the even. and in the or unclean. So it was not left to the Prieſts power or will, but 18 The woman alſo with whom man / ſhall lie with dey of the wy —_—_ rules, ſuch as the people might diſcern no | ſeeq of copulation, they Shal borh bathe themſelves in wa- CHAP, XV: Rb ; . 2 , The man, to wit, that had ſuch an iſſue, which is plain!
n—_ wh ark {ner _— _—_— te Of I 1 ——_ RT = be pears out of _ whole context.- For though 4 rand
ſes ordinarily, 19 24. Extraordinary, 25 —— 28. Their Expia- pecial caſes relating to the worſhip of God, men were to forbear