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Leviticus 13:45
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43 Then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body,
44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him1 unclean; his sore is on his ahead.  
45 “Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head abare; and he shall bcover his mustache, and cry, c‘Unclean! Unclean!’  
46 He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall1 dwell alone; his dwelling shall be aoutside the camp.  

The Law Concerning Leprous Garments

47 “Also, if a garment has a1 leprous plague in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment,  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Leviticus 13:45

His clothes shall be rent, etc. - The leprous person is required to be as one that mourned for the dead, or for some great and public calamity. He was to have his clothes rent in token of extreme sorrow; his head was to be made bare, the ordinary bonnet or turban being omitted; and he was to have a covering upon his upper lip, his jaws being tied up With a linen cloth, after the same manner in which the Jews bind up the dead, which custom is still observed among the Jews in Barbary on funeral occasions: a custom which, from Ezekiel 24:17, we learn had prevailed very anciently among the Jews in Palestine. He was also to cry, Unclean, unclean, in order to prevent any person from coming near him, lest the contagion might be thus communicated and diffused through society; and hence the Targumist render it, Be not ye made unclean! Be not ye made unclean! A caution to others not to come near him.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Leviticus 13:45:

Isaiah 53:3
James 5:13

 

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