Leviticus 14:40
He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- jubebit erui lapides in quibus lepra est, et projici eos extra civitatem in locum immundum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ προστάξει ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ ἐξελοῦσιν τοὺς λίθους· ἔστιν ἡ ἁφή· καὶ ἐκβαλοῦσιν αὐτοὺς ἔξω τῆς πόλεως εἰς τόπον ἀκάθαρτον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְצִוָּה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְחִלְּצוּ֙ אֶת הָ֣אֲבָנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּהֵ֖ן הַנָּ֑גַע וְהִשְׁלִ֤יכוּ אֶתְהֶן֙ אֶל מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר אֶל מָק֖וֹם טָמֵֽא
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Modesty, Chapter XX
For excellently was he wont to interpret the law, and keep its figures even in (the dispensation of) the Truth itself. It was with a reference, in short, to this species of discipline that the caution was taken in the case of the leper: “But if the speckled appearance shall have become efflorescent over the skin, and shall have covered the whole skin from the head even unto the feet through all the visible surface, then the priest, when he shall have seen, shall utterly cleanse him: since he hath wholly turned into white he is clean. …