Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 14:56 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 56. 56And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
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Role in This Section
This verse adds swellings, scabs, and bright spots to the summarized cases.
Read It With
- Leviticus 14:48-57
Place Leviticus 14:56 inside 14:48-57. This verse adds swellings, scabs, and bright spots to the summarized cases. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: A house with no returning condition receives the bird ritual, and the section closes by naming skin, hair, garments, and houses as cases priests teach people to distinguish.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 14:48-57 must remain the teaching frame because this verse adds swellings, scabs, and bright spots to the summarized cases without completing the unit's reasoning.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 14:48-57 — A cleared house receives purification and the laws are summarizedSources used for this context pointer
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 14:48-57, 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 14:48-57
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