SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:49
y que la plaga sea verde, o bermeja, en vestido o en piel, o en estambre, o en trama, o en cualquiera obra de piel; plaga es de lepra, y se ha de mostrar al sacerdote.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 49. And if the plague be greenish or reddish the garment, or in the skin , etc.] 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 f468 ; garments are defiled by green in greens, and by red in reds, that is, by the greenest and reddest; the green, the commentators say f469 , 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 f470 ; 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 47-59 - The garment suspected to be tainted with leprosy was not to be burne immediately. If, upon search, it was found that there was a leprou spot, it must be burned, or at least that part of it. If it proved to be free, it must be washed, and then might be used. This also set forth the great evil there is in sin. It not only defiles the sinner' conscience, but it brings a stain upon all he has and all that he does And those who make their clothes servants to their pride and lust, ma see them thereby tainted with leprosy. But the robes of righteousnes never fret, nor are moth-eaten __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
והיה 1961 הנגע 5061 ירקרק 3422 או 176 אדמדם 125 בבגד 899 או 176 בעור 5785 או 176 בשׁתי 8359 או 176 בערב 6154 או 176 בכל 3605 כלי 3627 עור 5785 נגע 5061 צרעת 6883 הוא 1931 והראה 7200 את 853 הכהן׃ 3548
