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Geneva Bible

Leviticus 13:18

The flesh also in whose skin there is a bile and is healed,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Boil;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Boils;   Diseases;   Health-Disease;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leprosy;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Diseases;   Leviticus;   Sore;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Boil (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boil;   Leprosy;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
King James Version
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
Lexham English Bible
"And when someone's body has a skin sore on his skin and it is healed
New Century Version
"Someone may have a boil on his skin that is healed.
New English Translation
"When someone's body has a boil on its skin and it heals,
Amplified Bible
"And when there is on the skin of the body [the scar of] a boil that is healed,
New American Standard Bible
"Now when the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
Legacy Standard Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
Contemporary English Version
If you have a sore that either swells or turns reddish-white after it has healed, then you must show it to a priest.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: iii) "If a person has on his skin a boil that heals
Darby Translation
And the flesh—when in the skin thereof cometh a boil, and it is healed,
Easy-to-Read Version
"Someone might get a boil on their skin that heals over.
English Standard Version
"If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals,
George Lamsa Translation
The flesh also, if there is in the skin thereof a boil and it is healed,
Good News Translation
If any of you have a boil that has healed
Christian Standard Bible®
“When a boil appears on the skin of someone’s body and it heals,
Literal Translation
And when the flesh has a boil in its skin, and it has been healed,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan there is a byle in the ßkynne of eny mans flesh, and healeth agayne,
American Standard Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
Bible in Basic English
And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The fleshe also in whose skinne there is a byle, and is healed,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
King James Version (1611)
The flesh also, in which, euen in the skinne thereof was a bile, and is healed,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if the flesh should have become an ulcer in his skin, and should be healed,
English Revised Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
Berean Standard Bible
When a boil appears on someone's skin and it heals,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fleisch and skyn, in which a botche is bred,
Young's Literal Translation
`And when flesh hath in it, in its skin, an ulcer, and it hath been healed,
Update Bible Version
And when the flesh has a boil on it, and it is healed,
Webster's Bible Translation
The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin of it, was a boil, and is healed,
World English Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
New King James Version
"If the body develops a boil in the skin, and it is healed,
New Living Translation
"If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
New Life Bible
"When there is a sore on the skin of the body that has been healed,
New Revised Standard
When there is on the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any one's flesh, hath, in the skin thereof, a boil, - and then it is healed;
Douay-Rheims Bible
When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed:
Revised Standard Version
"And when there is in the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,
THE MESSAGE
"When a person has a boil and it heals and in place of the boil there is white swelling or a reddish-white shiny spot, the person must present himself to the priest for an examination. If it looks like it has penetrated the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has broken out in the boil. But if the examination shows that there is no white hair in it and it is only skin deep and has faded, the priest will put him in quarantine for seven days. If it then spreads over the skin, the priest will diagnose him as unclean. It is infectious. But if the shiny spot has not changed and hasn't spread, it's only a scar from the boil. The priest will pronounce him clean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Contextual Overview

18 The flesh also in whose skin there is a bile and is healed, 19 And in ye place of the bile there be a white swelling, or a white spot somewhat reddish, it shal be seene of the Priest. 20 And when the Priest seeth it, if it appeare lower then the skinne, and the heare thereof bee changed into white, ye Priest then shal pronounce him vncleane: for it is a plague of leprosie, broken out in the bile. 21 But if the Priest looke on it, & there be no white heares therein, and if it bee not lower then the skin, but be darker, then the Priest shall shut him vp seuen dayes. 22 And if it spred abroad in the flesh, ye Priest shall pronounce him vncleane, for it is a sore. 23 But if the spot continue in his place, and growe not, it is a burning bile: therefore the Priest shall declare him to be cleane. 24 If there be any flesh, in whose skin there is an hote burning, & the quick flesh of ye burning haue a white spot, somewhat reddish or pale, 25 Then the Priest shall looke vpon it: and if the heare in that spot be changed into white, and it appeare lower then the skin, it is a leprosie broken out in the burning therefore the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane: for it is the plague of leprosie. 26 But if the Priest looke on it, and there be no white heare in the spot, and be no lower then the other skinne, but be darker, then the Priest shall shut him vp seuen dayes. 27 After, the Priest shall looke on him the seuenth day: if it be growen abroad in the skinne, then the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane: for it is the plague of leprosie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a boil: Exodus 9:9, Exodus 15:26, 2 Kings 20:7, Job 2:7, Psalms 38:3-7, Isaiah 38:21

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:25 - turned white

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord & tooke of euery cleane beast, & of euery cleane foule, and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar.
Genesis 13:4
Vnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:7
Also there was debate betweene ye heardmen of Abrams cattell, & the heardmen of Lots cattell. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.)
Genesis 13:8
Then saide Abram vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene thee and me, neither betweene mine heardmen & thine heardmen: for we be brethren.
Genesis 14:13
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Ebrew, which dwelt in the plaine of Mamre ye Amorite, brother of Eshcol, & brother of Aner, which were confederat wt Abram.
Genesis 18:1
Againe the Lord appeared vnto him in the plaine of Mamre, as he sate in his tent doore about the heate of the day.
Genesis 23:2
Then Sarah dyed in Kiriath-arba: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. and Abraham came to mourne for Sarah and to weepe for her.
Genesis 35:27
Then Iaakob came vnto Izhak his father to Mamre a citie of Arbah: this is Hebron, where Abraham and Izhak were strangers.
Genesis 37:14
And he answered him, I am here. Then he saide vnto him, Goe now, see whether it bee well with thy brethren, and how the flocks prosper, and bring me word againe. so hee sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Numbers 13:22
And they ascended toward the South, and came vnto Hebron, where were Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the sonnes of Anak. And Hebron was built seuen yeere before Zoan in Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides n you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah o, it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer:

and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever.

n In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect. 8. o Ib. c. 9. sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 13:18. In the skin thereof, was a boilScheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.


 
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