And he said, put thine hand into thy bosom
again
With the leprosy on it: and he put his hand into his bosom
again, and plucked it out of his
bosom;
quickly after he had put it in: and, behold, it was turned
again as his other flesh;
it was cured of the leprosy, and recovered its colour, and was as
sound as before, and as any other part of his body. This was a
very astonishing miracle, that he should be at once smote with a
leprosy; that this should be only in his hand, and not in any
other part of his body; and that it should be cured immediately,
without the use of any means; and by this miracle Moses, and the
Israelites, might be instructed and confirmed in the power of
God, that he that could so suddenly inflict such a disease, and
so easily cure it, was able to deliver them out of captivity,
which was as death; and that however until Moses might be in
himself to be a deliverer of the people, signified by his weak
and leprous hand, yet being quickened and strengthened by the
Lord, would be able to answer to the character; though, after
all, the deliverance must be imputed not to his hand and power,
but to the mighty hand and power of God.