Lev. 13:58

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be washed.

2Kgs 5:10; 2Kgs 5:14; Ps 51:2; 2Cor 7:1; 2Cor 12:8; Heb 9:10; Rev 1:5

The plague of leprosy was inflicted immediately from the hand of God, and came not from natural causes, as other diseases; and therefore must be managed according to a divine law.

Miriam's leprosy, and Gehazi's and King Uzziah's were all the punishments of particular sins; and if generally it was so, no marvel there was so much care taken to distinguish it from a common distemper, that none might be looked upon as lying under this extraordinary token of Divine displeasure, but those that really were so.