Leviticus 13:40 "A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean.

English Standard Version
“If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.

New American Standard Bible
"Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.

King James Bible
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

International Standard Version
"When a man's head becomes bare, he's bald, but he's clean.

American Standard Version
And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and clean:

Darby Bible Translation
And if a man's hair have fallen off his head, he is bald: he is clean;

Young's Literal Translation
And when a man's head is polished, he is bald, he is clean;

Cross References

Leviticus 13:39
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that grows in the skin; he is clean.

Leviticus 13:41
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.

2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you bald head; go up, you bald head.

Isaiah 15:2
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

40, 41. bald … forehead bald—The falling off of the hair, when the baldness commences in the back part of the head, is another symptom which creates a suspicion of leprosy. But it was not of itself a decisive sign unless taken in connection with other tokens, such as a "sore of a reddish white color" [Le 13:43]. The Hebrews as well as other Orientals were accustomed to distinguish between the forehead baldness, which might be natural, and that baldness which might be the consequence of disease.