Levítico 13:49

49 Y que la plaga sea verde, ó bermeja, en vestido ó en piel, ó en estambre, ó en trama, ó en cualquiera obra de piel; plaga es de lepra, y se ha de mostrar al sacerdote.

Levítico 13:49 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:49

And if the plague be greenish or reddish the garment, or in
the skin
Either of these two colours were signs of leprosy in garments; but it is not agreed whether stronger or weaker colours are designed; the radicals of both these words being doubled, according to some, and particularly Aben Ezra, lessen the sense of them; and so our translators understand it; but, according to Ben Gersom, the signification is increased thereby, and the meaning is, if it be exceeding green or exceeding red; and this is evidently the sense of the Misnah ^F16; garments are defiled by green in greens, and by red in reds, that is, by the greenest and reddest; the green, the commentators say ^F17, is like that of the wings of peacocks and leaves of palm trees, and the red like crimson or scarlet; and now these garments or skins, in which the green or red spots appeared, must be white, and not coloured or dyed: the canon runs thus ^F18; skins and garments dyed are not defiled with plagues (of leprosy); a garment whose warp is dyed, and its woof white, or its woof dyed, and its warp white, all goes according to the sight; that is, according to what colour to the eye most prevails, whether white or dyed:

either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of the skin;
the same held good of these as of a garment, or anything else made of them:

it [is] a plague of leprosy;
it has the signs of one, and gives great suspicion that it is one:

and shall be shewed unto the priest;
by the person in whose possession it is, that it may be examined and judged of whether it is a leprosy or no.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Misn. Negaim, c. 11. sect. 4.
F17 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Edaiot, c. 7. sect. 8.
F18 Misn. ut supra, (c.11.) sect. 3, 4.

Levítico 13:49 In-Context

47 Y cuando en el vestido hubiere plaga de lepra, en vestido de lana, ó en vestido de lino;

48 O en estambre ó en trama, de lino ó de lana, ó en piel, ó en cualquiera obra de piel;

49 Y que la plaga sea verde, ó bermeja, en vestido ó en piel, ó en estambre, ó en trama, ó en cualquiera obra de piel; plaga es de lepra, y se ha de mostrar al sacerdote.

50 Y el sacerdote mirará la plaga, y encerrará la cosa plagada por siete días.

51 Y al séptimo día mirará la plaga: y si hubiere cundido la plaga en el vestido, ó estambre, ó en la trama, ó en piel, ó en cualquiera obra que se hace de pieles, lepra roedora es la plaga; inmunda será.