Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 14:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
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Quick Meaning
This verse adds a seven-day wait and complete shaving before the next stage.
Read It With
- Leviticus 14:1-9
Start with 14:1-9 rather than Leviticus 14:9 alone. In that complete movement, this verse adds a seven-day wait and complete shaving before the next stage. The unit's controlling claim is: The priest goes outside, verifies healing, conducts the two-bird, cedar, scarlet, hyssop, water, washing, shaving, and waiting rites, and restores the person in stages.
What Remains True
Adds a seven-day wait and complete shaving before the next stage. Within Leviticus 14:1-9, this contributes to the larger claim that the priest goes outside, verifies healing, conducts the two-bird, cedar, scarlet, hyssop, water, washing, shaving, and waiting rites, and restores the person in stages.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 14:9, keep the verse inside Leviticus 14:1-9. Hold this boundary: The ritual celebrates restored access; it is not a medical treatment or evidence that isolation cured the condition. 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 14:1-9 — Restoration begins outside the camp after the condition has passedSources 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 14:1-9, 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 14:1-9
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 14:1-9
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