translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET study note

text: Instead of just the normal quarantine isolation, this condition calls for the more drastic and enduring response stated in Lev 13:45-46 . Raw flesh, of course, sometimes oozes blood to one degree or another, and blood flows are by nature impure (see, e.g., Lev 12 and 15 ; cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 191).


text: The warp (vertical) and woof (horizontal) thread may be two different sets of thread not yet woven together, or they may refer to two different kinds of thread already woven, in which case one might have the disease in it while the other does not. See the explanation in J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:809-10.


text: The Hebrew term translated “law” ( תוֹרָה , torah ) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of . Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 11:46-47; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33 .