Leviticus 13:41 If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

◄ Leviticus 13:41 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

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

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

King James Bible
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
Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.

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

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.

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.