Leviticus 13:44
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New International Version (©2011)
the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.

New Living Translation (©2007)
the man is indeed infected with a skin disease and is unclean. The priest must pronounce him ceremonially unclean because of the sore on his head.

English Standard Version (©2001)
he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
the man is afflicted with a skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head."

International Standard Version (©2012)
he's a man with an infectious skin disease. He's unclean. The priest is to declare him unclean on account of the skin rash in his head.

NET Bible (©2006)
he is a diseased man. He is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
the man has come down with an infectious skin disease. He is unclean. The priest must declare him unclean because of the skin disease on his head.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his disease is in his head.

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

American Standard Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest,

Darby Bible Translation
he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his sore is in his head.

English Revised Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.

Webster's Bible Translation
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

World English Bible
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

Young's Literal Translation
he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest doth pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

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

He is a leprous man, he is unclean,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful:

the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; as in any other case of leprosy:

his plague is in his head; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles, and are therefore, like the leper, to be avoided and rejected from the communion of the saints, Titus 3:10; and shows that men are accountable for their principles as well as practices, and liable to be punished for them.

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Laws about Leprosy
…43Then the priest shall look on it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in the skin of the flesh; 44He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. 45And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bore, and he shall put a covering on his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

Leviticus 13:43 The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease,
Leviticus 13:45 "Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, 'Unclean! Unclean!'