Leviticus 13
He Must Live Outside the Camp
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A Swelling, Eruption, or Bright Spot
13:1The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
13:2If anyone has on the skin of his body a bright scar-like mark, and it becomes a lesion of leprosy on his skin, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
13:3The priest shall examine the lesion on the skin of his body. If the hair in the lesion has turned white and the lesion appears lower than the skin of his body, it is a lesion of leprosy. The priest shall examine him and declare him unclean.
13:4If the bright spot on his skin is white but does not appear lower than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, but it is faint, the priest shall isolate the lesion for seven days.
13:5On the seventh day the priest shall examine the lesion. If it remains before him and has not changed its position in the skin, the priest shall isolate him for a second seven days.
13:6On the seventh day the priest shall examine him a second time. If the lesion is faint and has not changed its position in the skin, the priest shall declare him clean, for it is a mark. He shall wash his garments and be clean.
13:7But if the mark changes and shifts in the skin after the priest has examined him for cleansing, he shall appear before the priest a second time,
13:8and the priest shall examine him. If the mark has shifted in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is leprosy.
Established Leprosy and Changes of Appearance
13:9When a lesion of leprosy occurs in anyone, he shall come to the priest.
13:10The priest shall examine him. If there is a white scar in the skin, which has turned the hair white, and some sound living flesh in the scar,
13:11it is longstanding leprosy on the skin of his body. The priest shall declare him unclean and isolate him, for he is unclean.
13:12If the leprosy blossoms out in the skin and covers all the skin of the lesion from head to foot, within the priest’s whole view,
13:13the priest shall examine him. If the leprosy has covered all the skin of his body, the priest shall declare him clean as to the lesion, because it has all turned white; it is clean.
13:14But on whatever day living skin appears on him, he shall be defiled.
13:15The priest shall examine the sound skin, and the sound skin shall make him unclean, because it is unclean; it is leprosy.
13:16But if the sound skin is restored and turns white, he shall come to the priest,
13:17and the priest shall examine him. If the lesion has turned white, the priest shall declare the lesion clean; he is clean.
Boils and Burns
13:18If an ulcer occurs on the skin of the body and heals,
13:19and a white scar or a whitish or fiery-red bright spot appears in the place of the ulcer, he shall appear before the priest.
13:20The priest shall examine it. If it appears lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is leprosy that has blossomed in the ulcer.
13:21But if the priest examines it and finds no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin of the body but is faint, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
13:22If it spreads in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a lesion of leprosy that has blossomed in the ulcer.
13:23But if the bright spot stays in its place and does not spread, it is the scar of the ulcer; the priest shall declare him clean.
13:24If the skin of the body has a burn from fire, and the healed area of the burn on his skin becomes a shining, bright, whitish-red or completely white spot,
13:25the priest shall examine him. If the hair in the shining spot has turned white and it appears lower than the skin, it is leprosy that has blossomed in the burn. The priest shall declare him unclean; it is a lesion of leprosy.
13:26But if the priest examines it and finds no white hair in the shining spot, and it is not lower than the skin but is faint, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
13:27The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a lesion of leprosy that has blossomed in the ulcer.
13:28But if the shining spot stays in its place, has not spread in the skin, and is faint, it is the scar of the burn. The priest shall declare him clean, for it is the mark of the burn.
The Head, Beard, and Pale Spots
13:29If a man or woman has a lesion of leprosy on the head or beard,
13:30the priest shall examine the lesion. If it appears more hollow than the skin and has fine yellowish hair in it, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is a broken patch, leprosy of the head or leprosy of the beard.
13:31If the priest examines the lesion of the broken patch and it does not appear more hollow than the skin, and there is no yellowish hair in it, the priest shall isolate the lesion of the broken patch for seven days.
13:32The priest shall examine the lesion on the seventh day. If the broken patch has not spread, there is no yellowish hair in it, and it does not appear hollow below the skin,
13:33the skin shall be shaved, but the broken patch shall not be shaved. The priest shall isolate the broken patch for a second seven days.
13:34The priest shall examine the broken patch on the seventh day. If it has not spread in the skin after he was shaved and does not appear hollow below the skin, the priest shall declare him clean. He shall wash his garments and be clean.
13:35But if the broken patch spreads in the skin after he has been cleansed,
13:36the priest shall examine him. If the broken patch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not inspect for yellow hair, because he is unclean.
13:37But if before him the broken patch has remained in place and black hair has grown in it, the broken patch has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.
13:38If a man or woman has shining, whitish patches on the skin of the body,
13:39the priest shall examine him. If there are shining, whitish patches on the skin of his body, it is a white eruption; he is clean. It blossoms in the skin of his body; he is clean.
Baldness and the Person Declared Unclean
13:40If anyone loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.
13:41If he loses the hair at the front of his head, he is bald at the forehead; he is clean.
13:42But if there is a white or fiery-red lesion on his bald head or bald forehead, it is leprosy on his bald head or bald forehead.
13:43The priest shall examine him. If the lesion on his bald head or bald forehead appears white tinged with red, like the appearance of leprosy on the skin of his body,
13:44he is a person with leprosy. The priest must declare him unclean; his lesion is on his head.
13:45The person with leprosy who has the lesion shall have his garments loosened, his head uncovered, and a covering around his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.
13:46All the days the lesion is on him, being unclean, he shall be unclean. He shall live separated; his residence shall be outside the camp.
Affected Clothing and Leather
13:47If a garment has a lesion of leprosy, whether a woolen garment or a tow garment,
13:48or in warp or weft, or in linen or wool, or in leather or any worked leather,
13:49and the lesion in the leather, garment, warp, weft, or any worked leather article is greenish or fiery red, it is a lesion of leprosy, and he shall show it to the priest.
13:50The priest shall examine the lesion, and the priest shall isolate the lesion for seven days.
13:51On the seventh day the priest shall examine the lesion. If it has spread in the garment, warp, weft, or leather, in whatever use is made of leather, the lesion is persistent leprosy; it is unclean.
13:52He shall burn up the garment, the warp or weft in wool or linen, or any leather article that has the lesion, for it is persistent leprosy; it shall be burned up with fire.
13:53But if the priest examines it and the lesion has not spread in the garment, warp, weft, or any leather article,
13:54the priest shall give instructions, and he shall wash the article with the lesion; the priest shall isolate the lesion for a second seven days.
13:55After it has been washed, the priest shall examine the lesion. If it has not changed its appearance and has not spread, it is unclean; it shall be burned up with fire. It has become established in the garment, warp, or weft.
13:56But if the priest examines it and the lesion is faint after washing, he shall tear it out of the garment, leather, warp, or weft.
13:57If it appears again in the garment, warp, weft, or any leather article, it is blossoming leprosy; the affected article shall be burned up with fire.
13:58A garment, warp, weft, or any leather article that is washed, from which the lesion departs, shall be washed a second time and be clean.
13:59This is the law of a lesion of leprosy in a woolen or tow garment, warp, weft, or any leather article, for declaring it clean or unclean.
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