Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 13:55 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 55. 55And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
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Quick Meaning
This verse requires burning an unchanged deep-seated mark even when it has not spread.
Read It With
- Leviticus 13:47-59
Place Leviticus 13:55 inside 13:47-59. This verse requires burning an unchanged deep-seated mark even when it has not spread. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: Greenish or reddish changes in wool, linen, or leather are tested for spread and washing, with affected material burned and stable material returned after further washing.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit needs this detail before it can reach its next action or distinction: this verse requires burning an unchanged deep-seated mark even when it has not spread.
What Remains True
Requires burning an unchanged deep-seated mark even when it has not spread. Within Leviticus 13:47-59, this contributes to the larger claim that greenish or reddish changes in wool, linen, or leather are tested for spread and washing, with affected material burned and stable material returned after further washing.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 13:55, keep the verse inside Leviticus 13:47-59. Hold this boundary: The material category shows that tzaraat is not simply one human disease. 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 13:47-59 — Garment changes are inspected, quarantined, washed, burned, or restoredSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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 13:47-59, 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 13:47-59
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 13:47-59
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