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What is a Leper?
        LEP'ER
        The leper was excluded from the tabernacle and the camp, and when he was healed his restoration to social intercourse with his fellow-men was twofold, performed both in the camp and in the tabernacle. Lev 14:3-32. A house for lepers was built outside Jerusalem on the hill of Gareb -- i.e., "the hill of scraping," Jer 31:40; Head of a Leper. Job 2:8 -- and the leper was compelled to wear mourning. Lev 13:45. With respect to the leprosy of houses and of clothes, Lev 14:55, the expression is only analogical, referring to the spots and disfigurations which appeared upon the walls and articles of clothing, resembling the leprous spots, and originating from a species of mould or mildew, indicating a great degree of dampness, corrupting the air, injurious to health, and often the occasion and precursor of fatal diseases. The rites ordained for cleansing and purifying this kind of "leprosy" are in their symbolical bearing strictly analogous to the laws concerning leprosy proper. Lev 13:47-59; Lev 14:33-53. See Leprosy


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'leper' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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