Leviticus 13 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Laws About Leprosy

Lev 13:1The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Lev 13:2“When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous[fn] disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,

Lev 13:3

Lev 13:3and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And 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.

Lev 13:4

Lev 13:4But 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 shut up the diseased person for seven days.

Lev 13:5

Lev 13:5And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up for another seven days.

Lev 13:6

Lev 13:6And 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.

Lev 13:7

Lev 13:7But 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.

Lev 13:8

Lev 13:8And the priest shall look, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.

Lev 13:9

Lev 13:9“When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest,

Lev 13:10

Lev 13:10and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Lev 13:11

Lev 13:11it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.

Lev 13:12

Lev 13:12And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,

Lev 13:13

Lev 13:13then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.

Lev 13:14

Lev 13:14But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.

Lev 13:15

Lev 13:15And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease.

Lev 13:16

Lev 13:16But if the raw flesh recovers and turns white again, then he shall come to the priest,

Lev 13:17

Lev 13:17and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.

Lev 13:18

Lev 13:18“If there is in the skin of one’s body a boil and it heals,

Lev 13:19

Lev 13:19and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest.

Lev 13:20

Lev 13:20And the priest shall look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil.

Lev 13:21

Lev 13:21But 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 shut him up seven days.

Lev 13:22

Lev 13:22And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.

Lev 13:23

Lev 13:23But 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.

Lev 13:24

Lev 13:24“Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,

Lev 13:25

Lev 13:25the priest shall examine 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 case of leprous disease.

Lev 13:26

Lev 13:26But 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, the priest shall shut him up seven days,

Lev 13:27

Lev 13:27and the priest shall examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.

Lev 13:28

Lev 13:28But 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.

Lev 13:29

Lev 13:29“When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,

Lev 13:30

Lev 13:30the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.

Lev 13:31

Lev 13:31And if the priest examines the itching disease and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,

Lev 13:32

Lev 13:32and 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 appears to be no deeper than the skin,

Lev 13:33

Lev 13:33then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for another seven days.

Lev 13:34

Lev 13:34And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

Lev 13:35

Lev 13:35But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,

Lev 13:36

Lev 13:36then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

Lev 13:37

Lev 13:37But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Lev 13:38

Lev 13:38“When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots,

Lev 13:39

Lev 13:39the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

Lev 13:40

Lev 13:40“If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.

Lev 13:41

Lev 13:41And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.

Lev 13:42

Lev 13:42But 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.

Lev 13:43

Lev 13:43Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,

Lev 13:44

Lev 13:44he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.

Lev 13:45

Lev 13:45“The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip[fn] and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’

Lev 13:46

Lev 13:46He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Lev 13:47

Lev 13:47“When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,

Lev 13:48

Lev 13:48in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin,

Lev 13:49

Lev 13:49if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it shall be shown to the priest.

Lev 13:50

Lev 13:50And the priest shall examine the disease and shut up that which has the disease for seven days.

Lev 13:51

Lev 13:51Then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean.

Lev 13:52

Lev 13:52And he shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It shall be burned in the fire.

Lev 13:53

Lev 13:53“And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin,

Lev 13:54

Lev 13:54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up for another seven days.

Lev 13:55

Lev 13:55And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.

Lev 13:56

Lev 13:56“But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.

Lev 13:57

Lev 13:57Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire whatever has the disease.

Lev 13:58

Lev 13:58But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”

Lev 13:59

Lev 13:59This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.

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(13:2)

Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases

(13:45)

Or mustache

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