Leviticus 13:29
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New International Version (©2011)
"If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"If anyone, either a man or woman, has a sore on the head or chin,

English Standard Version (©2001)
“When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Now when a man or a woman has a skin rash on the head or the man develops a skin rash under his beard,

NET Bible (©2006)
"When a man or a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"If a man or a woman has some disease on the head or chin,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If a man or woman has a disease upon the head or the beard;

American King James Version
If a man or woman have a plague on the head or the beard;

American Standard Version
And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the Priest shall see them,

Darby Bible Translation
And if a man or a woman have a sore on the head or on the beard,

English Revised Version
And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

Webster's Bible Translation
If a man or woman shall have a plague upon the head or the beard;

World English Bible
"When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

Young's Literal Translation
'And when a man (or a woman) hath in him a plague in the head or in the beard,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:18-44 The priest is told what judgment to make, if there were any appearance of a leprosy in old sores; and such is the danger of those who having escaped the pollutions of the world are again entangled therein. Or, in a burn by accident, ver. 24. The burning of strife and contention often occasions the rising and breaking out of that corruption, which proves that men are unclean. Human life lies exposed to many grievances. With what troops of diseases are we beset on every side; and thy all entered by sin! If the constitution be healthy, and the body lively and easy, we are bound to glorify God with our bodies. Particular note was taken of the leprosy, if in the head. If the leprosy of sin has seized the head; if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles, which support wicked practices, are embraced, it is utter uncleanness, from which few are cleansed. Soundness in the faith keeps leprosy from the head.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 29-37. - The method of discriminating between a leprous spot on the head or beard and an ulcer in the same place. The symptoms of leprosy are the same as before, except that the hairs in this case are of a reddish-yellow colour instead of white. The treatment is also the same, with the addition of shaving the head or beard except at the place where the suspicious spot has appeared. In verse 31 the priest is ordered to shut up (or bandage) the patient, if

(1) the spot be only in the upper cuticle, and

(2) there is no black hair in it.

We should have expected rather from the second condition if there be black hair in it, or if there be no yellow hair in it; and Keil accordingly proposes to omit the negative or to change the word "black" for "yellow," the two words in the original being easily interchangeable. The present reading is. however. defensible. The fact of the spot being not below the cuticle was a very favorable symptom; there being no black hair was a very unfavourable symptom. Under these circumstances, the priest delays his judgment in the ordinary way.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If a man or a woman hath a plague upon the head or the beard. Any breaking out in those parts a swelling, scab, or spot, on a man's beard or on a woman's head; or on the head of either man or woman; or on a woman's beard, if she had any, as some have had though not common.

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Laws about Leprosy
…28And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning. 29If a man or woman have a plague on the head or the beard; 30Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scale, even a leprosy on the head or beard. …

Leviticus 13:28 If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.
Leviticus 13:30 the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin.
Ezra 9:3 When I heard this, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled.
Ezekiel 5:1 "Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair.