THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS

 

Leviticus Chapter 13

1 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

2 When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, an eruption, or bright spot, and it is in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests:

3 And the priest shall look at the spot on the skin of his body: and if the hair in the spot has turned white, and the spot looks deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and does not appear deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white; then the priest shall shut up the person who has the plague for seven days:

5 And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day: and, behold, if the spot has not changed, and has not spread in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up for seven more days:

6 And the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day: and, behold, if the spot is somewhat dark, and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is only an eruption: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

7 But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again:

8 And if the priest sees that the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.

9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought to the priest;

10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling;

11 It is an old leprosy on the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.

12 And if a leprosy breaks out in the skin, and it covers all the skin of the one who has the plague from his head even to his foot, wherever the priest looks;

13 Then the priest shall make an examination: and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all of his flesh, he shall pronounce the one who has the plague clean: it is all turned white: he is clean.

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

15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.

16 But if the raw flesh turns again, and becomes white, he shall come to the priest;

17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the disease has turned white; then the priest shall pronounce him who has the plague clean: he is clean.

18 ¶ The flesh also, in which there was an inflammation in the skin, that has healed,

19 And at the place of the inflammation there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it is shown to the priest;

20 And if, when the priest sees it, behold, it appears to be lower than the skin, and the hair in it has turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the inflammation.

21 But if the priest looks at it, and, behold, there are no white hairs in it, and if it is not lower than the skin, but is somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up for seven days:

22 And if it spreads much in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.

23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24 Or if when the skin of the body has been burned, and the raw flesh that burned has a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;

25 Then the priest shall look at it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

26 But if the priest looks at it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no lower than the other skin, but is somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up for seven days:

27 And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day: and if it has spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

28 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but it is somewhat dark; it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is the scar of the burn.

29 If a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard;

30 Then the priest shall examine the disease: and, behold, 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 a dry scale, a skin disease of the head or beard.

31 And if the priest look at the scaly disease, and it does not appear deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up the one who has the scaly disease for seven days:

32 And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the disease: and, behold, if the scale has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the scale does not appear deeper than the skin;

33 He shall be shaven, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall shut up the one who has the scale for seven more days:

34 And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale: and, behold, if the scale has not spread in the skin, and does not appear deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

35 But if the scale spreads much in the skin after his cleansing;

36 Then the priest shall examine him: and, behold, if the scale has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for yellow hair; he is unclean.

37 But if the eruption appears to be unchanged, and there is black hair growing in it; the scale is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

38 ¶ When a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of their body, even white bright spots;

39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are darkish white; it is a freckled spot that grows on the skin; he is clean.

40 If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald; but he is clean.

41 And he who has his hair fall off from the part of his head toward his face, has a bald forehead: but he is clean.

42 And if there is in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy breaking out on his bald head, or his bald forehead.

43 Then the priest shall look at it: and, behold, if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head, or on his bald forehead, as leprosy appears in the skin of the flesh;

44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

45 And the leper who has the disease, shall wear torn clothes, with his head uncovered, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; his dwelling place shall be outside the camp.

47 ¶ The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

48 Whether it is in the warp, or woof; of linen, or wool; or in a skin, or in anything made of skin;

49 If the disease appears greenish or reddish on the garment, or on the leather, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest:

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

51 And he shall look at the plague on the seventh day: if the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in anything that is made of skin; the plague is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.

52 Therefore he shall burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.

53 But if the priest looks, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;

54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall shut it up for seven more days:

55 And the priest shall look at the diseased spot, after it has been washed: and, behold, if the diseased spot has not changed color, even if it has not spread; it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire; it is a fungus, whether it is on the back or the front.

56 But if the priest looks, and, behold, the diseased spot is somewhat dark after washing it; then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:

57 Then if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it is spreading: you shall burn that which has the plague in it with fire.

58 But the garment, either warp, or woof, or anything of skin, which you shall wash, if the diseased spot goes away, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.

59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or anything of leather, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.