레위기 Chapter 14

Translation: ESV

1

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Key Message

God has made a way for those isolated by disease to be restored and to return to the community.

▸Leviticus 14 deals with the purification ceremony for the person healed of leprosy.

Leviticus 14 deals with the purification ceremony for the person healed of leprosy. While chapter 13 addresses the diagnosis and isolation of leprosy, chapter 14 prescribes the process of returning to the community after healing. This elaborate ceremony carried the meaning of the community celebrating together that recovery from leprosy is the grace of God.

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the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
2

"This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,

Key Message

Return to the community after healing must be accomplished through the proper process, and confirmation by a spiritual authority is important.

▸The healed leper had to be brought to the priest.

3

and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the leprous disease is healed in the leprous person,

Key Message

The Savior is the one who goes first to those who are isolated. Jesus perfectly fulfilled this prototype.

▸It is noteworthy that the priest goes outside the camp to examine the leper.

4

the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.

Key Message

The materials of the leprosy purification ceremony foreshadow Christ's atoning death and resurrection, and complete freedom from sin.

▸The leprosy purification ceremony requires two live birds, cedarwood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

7

And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

Key Message

Purification must be complete, and a vivid ceremony representing the complete removal of impurity was required.

▸The blood of the dead bird is mixed with water and sprinkled seven times on the leper, after which the living bird is released into the open field.

34

"When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,

Key Message

Holiness must apply not only to the individual body but also to the spaces and environments of life.

▸The regulations for leprosy in houses would apply after Israel had settled in Canaan.