Leviticus 15:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND TO AARON, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND TO AARON, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, WHEN ANY MAN HATH A RUNNING ISSUE OUT OF HIS FLESH, BECAUSE OF HIS ISSUE HE IS UNCLEAN._ When any man hath a running issue. This chapter describes other forms of uncleanness, the nature of which is sufficiently intelligible in the text, without... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS SHALL BE HIS UNCLEANNESS IN HIS ISSUE: WHETHER HIS FLESH RUN WITH HIS ISSUE, OR HIS FLESH BE STOPPED FROM HIS ISSUE, IT IS HIS UNCLEANNESS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHAT SADDLE SOEVER HE RIDETH UPON THAT HATH THE ISSUE SHALL BE UNCLEAN._ Saddle ... he rideth upon - (see the note at Genesis 31:34).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH ANY THING THAT WAS UNDER HIM SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN: AND HE THAT BEARETH ANY OF THOSE THINGS SHALL WASH HIS CLOTHES, AND BATHE HIMSELF IN WATER, AND BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE VESSEL OF EARTH, THAT HE TOUCHETH WHICH HATH THE ISSUE, SHALL BE BROKEN: AND EVERY VESSEL OF WOOD SHALL BE RINSED IN WATER._ The vessel of earth ... shall be broken. It is thought the pottery of the Israelites, like the earthenware jars in which the Egyptians kept their water, was unglazed... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE THAT HATH AN ISSUE IS CLEANSED OF HIS ISSUE; THEN HE SHALL NUMBER TO HIMSELF SEVEN DAYS FOR HIS CLEANSING, AND WASH HIS CLOTHES, AND BATHE HIS FLESH IN RUNNING WATER, AND SHALL BE CLEAN._ Number to himself seven days. Like a leprous person, he underwent a week's probation, whether he w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRIEST SHALL OFFER THEM, THE ONE FOR A SIN OFFERING, AND THE OTHER FOR A BURNT OFFERING; AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR HIM BEFORE THE LORD FOR HIS ISSUE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF A WOMAN HAVE AN ISSUE, AND HER ISSUE IN HER FLESH BE BLOOD, SHE SHALL BE PUT APART SEVEN DAYS: AND WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH HER SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN._ If a woman have an issue. Though this, like the leprosy, might be a natural affection, it was anciently considered contagious, and enta... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS SHALL YE SEPARATE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM THEIR UNCLEANNESS; THAT THEY DIE NOT IN THEIR UNCLEANNESS, WHEN THEY DEFILE MY TABERNACLE THAT IS AMONG THEM._ Thus shall ye separate ... from their uncleanness. The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverenc... [ Continue Reading ]