1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
2 “When a man shall have a swelling in
his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot,
and it becomes in the skin of his body the
plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought
to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the
priests.
3 The priest shall examine the plague
in the skin of the body. If the hair in
the plague has turned white, and the appearance
of the plague is deeper than the
body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy;
so the priest shall examine him and pronounce
him unclean.
4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of
his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper
than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned
white, then the priest shall isolate the infected
person for seven days.
5 The priest shall examine him on the
seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the
plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t
spread in the skin, then the priest shall
isolate him for seven more days.
6 The priest shall examine him again on
the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has
faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his
clothes, and be clean.
7 But if the scab spreads on the skin after
he has shown himself to the priest for his
cleansing, he shall show himself to the
priest again.
8 The priest shall examine him; and behold,
if the scab has spread on the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.
It is leprosy.
9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a
man, then he shall be brought to the priest;
10 and the priest shall examine him. 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 a chronic leprosy in the skin of his
body, and the priest shall pronounce him
unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is
already unclean.
12 “If the leprosy breaks out all over the
skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of
the infected person from his head even to
his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
13 then the priest shall examine him.
Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his
flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the
plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
14 But whenever raw flesh appears in
him, he shall be unclean.
15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh,
and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh
is unclean. It is leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is
changed to white, then he shall come to the
priest.
17 The priest shall examine him. Behold,
if the plague has turned white, then the
priest shall pronounce him clean of the
plague. He is clean.
18 “When the body has a boil on its skin,
and it has healed,
19 and in the place of the boil there is a
white swelling, or a bright spot, reddishwhite,
then it shall be shown to the priest.
20 The priest shall examine it. Behold, if
its appearance is deeper than the skin, and
its hair has turned white, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean. It is the
plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the
boil.
21 But if the priest examines it, and behold,
there are no white hairs in it, and it
isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then
the priest shall isolate him seven days.
22 If it spreads 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 hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the
boil; and the priest shall pronounce him
clean.
24 “Or when the body has a burn from
fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of
the burn becomes a bright spot, reddishwhite,
or white,
25 then the priest shall examine it; and
behold, if the hair in the bright spot has
turned white, and its appearance is deeper
than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken
out in the burning, and the priest shall
pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of
leprosy.
26 But if the priest examines it, and behold,
there is no white hair in the bright
spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but
has faded, then the priest shall isolate him
seven days.
27 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 the plague of leprosy.
28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and
hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is
the swelling from the burn, and the priest
shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar
from the burn.
29 “When a man or woman has a plague
on the head or on the beard,
30 then the priest shall examine the
plague; and behold, if its appearance is
deeper than the skin, and the hair in it
is yellow and thin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is
leprosy of the head or of the beard.
31 If the priest examines the plague of
itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t
deeper than the skin, and there is no black
hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the
person infected with itching seven days.
32 On the seventh day the priest shall
examine the plague; and behold, if the itch
hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair
in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t
deeper than the skin,
33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall
not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate
the one who has the itch seven more
days.
34 On the seventh day, the priest shall
examine the itch; and behold, if the itch
hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance
isn’t deeper than the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall
wash his clothes and be clean.
35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after
his cleansing,
36 then the priest shall examine him; and
behold, if the itch has spread in the skin,
the priest shall not look for the yellow hair;
he is unclean.
37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested
and black hair has grown in it, then the
itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall
pronounce him clean.
38 “When a man or a woman has bright
spots in the skin of the body, even white
bright spots,
39 then the priest shall examine them.
Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of
their body are a dull white, it is a harmless
rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is
clean.
40 “If a man’s hair has fallen from his
head, he is bald. He is clean.
41 If his hair has fallen off from the front
part of his head, his forehead is bald. He is
clean.
42 But if a reddish-white plague is in the
bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy
breaking out in his bald head or his bald
forehead.
43 Then the priest shall examine him.
Behold, if the swelling of the plague is
reddish-white in his bald head, or in his
bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy
in the skin of the body,
44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean.
The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean.
His plague is on his head.
45 “The leper in whom the plague is shall
wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head
shall hang loose. 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 unclean. He is unclean.
He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be
outside of 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 warp or woof;† of
linen or of wool; whether in leather, or in
anything made of leather;
49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in
the garment, or in the leather, or in the
warp, or in the woof, or in anything made
of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and
shall be shown to the priest.
50 The priest shall examine the plague,
and isolate the plague seven days.
51 He shall examine the plague on the
seventh day. If the plague has spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof,
or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used
for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is
unclean.
52 He shall burn the garment, whether
the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen,
or anything of leather, in which the plague
is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be
burned in the fire.
53 “If the priest examines it, and behold,
the plague hasn’t 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 that the plague is in,
and he shall isolate it seven more days.
55 Then the priest shall examine it, after
the plague is washed; and behold, if the
plague hasn’t changed its color, and the
plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you
shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed
spot, whether the bareness is inside or
outside.
56 If the priest looks, and behold, the
plague has faded after it is washed, 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 and 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 what the plague is in with fire.
58 The garment, either the warp, or the
woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which
you shall wash, if the plague has departed
from them, then it shall be washed the
second time, and it will be clean.”
59 This is the law of the plague of mildew
in a garment of wool or linen, either in the
warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin,
to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it
unclean.
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