Bible Strands
Leviticus 14:32
This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The verse operates as a statutory summary closing the preceding ritual instructions, delivered within the broader covenant code given to Israel through Moses. It records no new divine address but codifies the financial provision just detailed.
The words — The phrase זֹאת הַתּוֹרָת (zot ha-to.Rat) translates literally as "this is the legal procedure," marking the text as a binding regulatory conclusion. The verb תַשִּׂיג (ta.Sig) means "it will reach," denoting the person's inability to meet the required financial threshold.
The thread — This provision for scaled sacrifices parallels the economic accommodation in Leviticus 14:21 and mirrors the structural pattern found in Leviticus 13:59. The priestly code repeatedly adjusts ritual requirements to match the offerer's means.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to acknowledge that ritual compliance includes a built-in economic safeguard. It demands a practical response to financial limitation without altering the core requirement of priestly atonement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 14:10 On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.
- Leviticus 14:21 If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,
- Leviticus 13:59 This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”
- Leviticus 14:2 “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.
- Leviticus 14:54 This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,
- Psalms 72:12 For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- Psalms 136:23 He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
- Matthew 11:5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
- 1 Corinthians 1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.