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Leviticus

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Chapter 13

1The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2“When a person has on his skin a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on his skin, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests, 3and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. If the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean. 4But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the diseased person for seven days. 5And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if the disease is stable and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for another seven days. 6And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 7But if the eruption spreads in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest. 8And the priest shall examine him, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease. 9“When a person has a leprous disease, then he shall be brought to the priest, 10and the priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, 11it is a chronic leprous disease in his skin, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean. 12And if the leprous disease breaks out all over the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from his head to his feet, so far as the priest can see, 13then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce clean him who has the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean. 14But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean. 15And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease. 16But if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest, 17and the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased area has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce clean him who has the disease; he is clean. 18“If a person has a boil on his skin and it heals, 19and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest. 20And the priest shall examine it, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease that has broken out in the boil. 21But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days. 22And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease. 23But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 24“Or if the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a reddish-white spot or a white spot, 25and the priest examines it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease. 26But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days. 27And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease. 28But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn. 29“When a man or woman has a disease on the head or in the beard, 30and the priest examines the disease, and behold, it appears deeper than the skin, and there is in it fine yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard. 31If the priest examines the itch and behold, it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person with the itchy disease for seven days. 32And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease. If the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch does not appear deeper than the skin, 33then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the itch. And the priest shall isolate the person with the itchy disease for another seven days. 34And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 35But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, 36then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean. 37But if in his eyes the itch is stable, and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed; he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 38“When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots, 39and the priest examines them, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is a harmless eruption that has broken out in the skin; he is clean. 40“If a man’s hair falls from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. 41And if his hair falls from his forehead, he has baldness on his forehead; he is clean. 42But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead. 43Then the priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the disease is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body, 44he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head. 45“The person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ 46He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp. 47“When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment, 48in warp or woof, of linen or of wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin, 49if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, in warp or woof, or in skin, or in anything made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease and shall be shown to the priest. 50And the priest shall examine the disease and isolate that which has the disease for seven days. 51Then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in warp or woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, it is a spreading leprous disease; it is unclean. 52And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or any article of skin, for it is a spreading leprous disease. It shall be burned in the fire. 53“But if the priest examines it, and the disease has not spread in the garment, in warp or woof, or in any article of skin, 54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall isolate it for another seven days. 55And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the diseased area has not changed color, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the raw spot is on the inside or on the outside. 56If the priest examines it, and though the diseased area has faded after washing, still the priest shall tear it out of the garment or out of the skin, whether the warp or the woof. 57But if it appears again in the garment, in warp or woof, or in any article of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the disease appears. 58The garment, whether warp or woof, or any article of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and it will be clean. 59This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in any article of skin, to pronounce it clean or unclean.”