Leviticus 13:17
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New International Version (©2011)
The priest is to examine them, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the affected person clean; then they will be clean.

New Living Translation (©2007)
for another examination. If the affected areas have indeed turned white, the priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean by declaring, 'You are clean!'

English Standard Version (©2001)
and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and the priest shall look at him, and behold, if the infection has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; he is clean.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The priest will examine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest must pronounce the infected person clean; he is clean."

International Standard Version (©2012)
When the priest examines him and finds that the skin rash has indeed turned white, then the priest is to declare the one with the skin rash clean, and he will be clean."

NET Bible (©2006)
The priest will then examine it, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the person with the infection clean--he is clean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The priest will examine him again, and if the diseased area has turned white, the priest must declare the diseased person clean. He is clean.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the disease is turned to white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has the disease: he is clean.

American King James Version
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has the plague: he is clean.

American Standard Version
and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean.

Darby Bible Translation
and the priest shall look on him, and behold, the sore is turned white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the sore: he is clean.

English Revised Version
and the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall see him: and behold, if the plague is turned into white: then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

World English Bible
and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.

Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath seen him, and lo, the plague hath been turned to white, and the priest hath pronounced clean him who hath the plague; he is clean.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:1-17 The plague of leprosy was an uncleanness, rather than a disease. Christ is said to cleanse lepers, not to cure them. Common as the leprosy was among the Hebrews, during and after their residence in Egypt, we have no reason to believe that it was known among them before. Their distressed state and employment in that land must have rendered them liable to disease. But it was a plague often inflicted immediately by the hand of God. Miriam's leprosy, and Gehazi's, and king Uzziah's, were punishments of particular sins; no marvel there was care taken to distinguish it from a common distemper. The judgment of it was referred to the priests. And it was a figure of the moral pollutions of men's minds by sin, which is the leprosy of the soul, defiling to the conscience, and from which Christ alone can cleanse. The priest could only convict the leper, (by the law is the knowledge of sin,) but Christ can cure the sinner, he can take away sin. It is a work of great importance, but of great difficulty, to judge of our spiritual state. We all have cause to suspect ourselves, being conscious of sores and spots; but whether clean or unclean is the question. As there were certain marks by which to know it was leprosy, so there are marks of such as are in the gall of bitterness. The priest must take time in making his judgment. This teaches all, both ministers and people, not to be hasty in censures, nor to judge anything before the time. If some men's sins go before unto judgment, the sins of others follow after, and so do men's good works. If the person suspected were found to be clean, yet he must wash his clothes, because there had been ground for the suspicion. We have need to be washed in the blood of Christ from our spots, though not leprosy spots; for who can say, I am pure from sin?

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the priest shall see him,.... Review him, and examine him thoroughly:

and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; the raw flesh in the swelling, which looked red, is become white:

then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague; that was supposed to have the plague of leprosy; but upon a review, and on this change of things, has not, he shall declare him free from it:

he is clean; and under no obligation to the laws and rites concerning it.

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Laws about Leprosy
…16Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed to white, he shall come to the priest; 17And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has the plague: he is clean. 18The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed, …

Leviticus 13:16 If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest.
Leviticus 13:18 "When someone has a boil on their skin and it heals,