Leviticus 13:41
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New International Version (©2011)
If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And if he loses hair on his forehead, he simply has a bald forehead; he is still clean.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If his head becomes bald at the front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When his head becomes bare on the side corner of his face, he has a bald forehead, but he's clean.

NET Bible (©2006)
If his head is bare on the forehead so that he is balding in front, he is clean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If he loses the hair on the front of his head, he is clean, even though he is bald on the forehead.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he that has his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

American King James Version
And he that has his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

American Standard Version
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean.

Darby Bible Translation
and if he have the hair fallen off from the part of the head towards his face, he is forehead-bald: he is clean.

English Revised Version
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.

World English Bible
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

Young's Literal Translation
and if from the corner of his face his head is polished, he is bald of the forehead; he is clean.

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face,.... That is, from the crown of his head towards his forehead and temples, the fore part of his head; and so the Misnic doctors distinguish baldness, which is from the crown of the head descending behind to the channel of the neck; and that here mentioned, which is from the crown of the head descending to his face and forehead, over against the hair above (x):

he is forehead bald; to distinguish him from him that is bald behind:

yet is he clean; as the other: these cases are observed, that it might not be concluded that every man that shed his hair or was bald either before or behind was a leper, because the hair of a leper used to fall off from him; if he had not the other signs of leprosy, and which were the sure and true signs of it before mentioned.

(x) Misn. Negaim, c. 10. sect. 10.

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Laws about Leprosy
…40And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. 41And he that has his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean. 42And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. …

Leviticus 13:40 "A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean.
Leviticus 13:42 But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defiling disease breaking out on his head or forehead.