Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 13:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
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Quick Meaning
This verse restores a clean declaration after the priest confirms the change.
Read It With
- Leviticus 13:9-17
Use 13:9-17 as the reading frame for Leviticus 13:17. The verse restores a clean declaration after the priest confirms the change, while the complete unit shows that Raw flesh in a longstanding condition is declared unclean, while complete white coverage can be declared clean until raw flesh returns.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse restores a clean declaration after the priest confirms the change; Leviticus 13:9-17 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
What Remains True
Restores a clean declaration after the priest confirms the change. Within Leviticus 13:9-17, this contributes to the larger claim that raw flesh in a longstanding condition is declared unclean, while complete white coverage can be declared clean until raw flesh returns.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 13:17, keep the verse inside Leviticus 13:9-17. Hold this boundary: The paradox prevents confident identification with Hansen's disease or any single modern illness. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 13:9-17 — Longstanding and all-white conditions produce counterintuitive rulingsSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 13:9-17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 13:9-17
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 13:9-17
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