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Leviticus 14:1-32

The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-32

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

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THE FORM OF PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER (). This is the most minute of all the forms of purification, those for purification from contact with a dead body () and for the cleansing of a defiled Nazarite () being alone to be compared with it in this respect. Some purifications were accomplished, as we have seen, in a very summary manner: one who touched the carcass of a beast that had died a natural death had only to wash his clothes (). The greater and more significative the defilement, the more careful and the more significative must be the cleansing. Leprous uncleanness excluded the leper both from the camp and from the sanctuary, from the rights both of citizen. ship and of Church-membership, with which the rights of the family were also associated; consequently there had to be a double form of restoration, each with its special ceremonies. The manner of the first reconciliation is detailed in , of the second in .

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