레위기 Chapter 13

Translation: ESV

1

The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Key Message

God gives specific guidance for the health and purity of the community, teaching the importance of spiritual cleanness.

▸Leviticus 13-14 contains the most extensive regulations concerning skin disease (leprosy).

Leviticus 13-14 contains the most extensive regulations concerning skin disease (leprosy). God gives these regulations to both Moses and Aaron together, indicating that the religious leader (Aaron) and the lawgiver (Moses) must jointly address this matter.

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When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow.
2

"When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,

Key Message

When warning signs are discovered, bringing them immediately to a spiritual authority is the way to maintain the community's purity.

▸When an abnormality appeared on the skin, the person had to go to the priest immediately.

45

"The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean.'

Key Message

For the community's purity, honesty in openly acknowledging one's own impurity is sometimes required.

▸A person diagnosed with leprosy was to make signs of mourning (torn clothes, loose hair) and publicly declare their own impurity.

46

He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Key Message

Sin and impurity destroy community, but Jesus comes to the isolated and brings restoration and inclusion.

▸The leper was to be isolated from the community and live alone outside the camp for as long as the disease lasted.