Submitted by Herschel Raysman on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 12:45
Leviticus 12:1-13:59; 2 kings 4:42-5:19; Matthew 8:1-4
“The priest is to examine him, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the infected person clean; then he will be clean”.
(Lev. 13:17)
Who commands? Heaven or earth?
The priest received authorization from heaven to pronounce a person with the plague of tzaraat (translated as leprosy) clean or unclean. Though the Torah shows all the details to determine if a person had been infected by the plague or not, only the priest had the authorization to pronounce him ritually clean or unclean.
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