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The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it be, which you shall wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
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The Second Washing
Commentators note that if a garment was found to be free of the 'plague' after an initial wash and quarantine, it still required a second washing to be declared clean. This two-step process highlights God's standard of complete purity and serves as a picture, as one scholar suggests, of the thorough cleansing from sin available through Christ.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Either - in these verses, should be 'or'. See Leviticus 13:47, Leviticus 13:49.
It should be noticed that no religious or …
19th Century
Anglican
And the garment ... — According to Leviticus 13:54; Leviticus 13:56, the suspicious symptoms often disappeared after th…
16th Century
Protestant
And the garment. This kind of disease, God, in his infinite clemency, has willed to be unknown to us. He has indeed subjected woolen garme…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the garment, either warp or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin [it be], which you shall wash
The garment suspected of being tainted with leprosy was not to be burned immediately. If, upon inspection, a leprous spot was found, it must be bur…
