Leviticus 13:29-59 ▼

29 If leprosy will have sprung up in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the priest shall look upon them,

30 and if the place is certainly lower than the rest of the flesh, and the hair is golden, and thinner than usual, he shall declare them contaminated, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard.

31 But if he sees that the place of the spot is equal with the nearby flesh, and that the hair is black, he shall seclude him for seven days,

32 and on the seventh day he shall examine it. If the spot has not increased, and the hair has kept its color, and the place of the mark is equal with the rest of the flesh,

33 the man shall be shaven, except in the place of the spot, and he shall be secluded for another seven days.

34 On the seventh day, if the mark seems to have stayed in its place, and it is not lower than the rest of the flesh, he shall declare him clean, and, his clothes having been washed, he shall be clean.

35 But if, after his cleansing, the spot will have increased again in the skin,

36 he shall no longer inquire as to whether the hair has turned yellow, because he is plainly unclean.

37 Furthermore, if the spot has not increased, and the hair is black, let him know that the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.

38 If a whiteness will have appeared in the skin of a man or a woman,

39 the priest shall examine them. If he detects an obscured whiteness shining in the skin, may he know that it is not leprosy, but a white-colored blemish, and that the man is clean.

40 The man whose hair falls off of his head is bald and clean.

41 And if the hair falls off of his forehead, he is bald in front and clean.

42 But if in the bald head or bald forehead there has arisen a white or reddish color,

43 and the priest will have seen this, he shall condemn him without doubt of leprosy, which has arisen in the baldness.

44 Therefore, whoever will have been spotted by leprosy, and who has been separated at the judgment of the priest,

45 shall have his clothes unstitched, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth, and he himself shall cry out that he is contaminated and filthy.

46 The entire time that he is a leper and unclean he shall live alone outside the camp.

47 A woolen or linen garment that will have held the leprosy,

48 in the main fibers or in any of the threads, or certainly in a skin, or whatever has been made from a skin,

49 if it has been infected with a white or red spot, it shall be considered to be leprosy, and it shall be shown to the priest.

50 And he, having examined it, shall close it up for seven days.

51 And on the seventh day, having looked at it again, if he detects an increase, it is a persistent leprosy; he shall judge the garment to be polluted, along with everything with which it has been found.

52 And because of this, it shall be burned in flames.

53 But if he will have seen that it has not increased,

54 he shall instruct them, and they shall wash whatever has the leprosy in it, and he shall close it up for another seven days.

55 And when he will have seen that the former appearance has not returned, even if the leprosy has not increased, he shall judge it to be unclean, and he shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has been infused in the exterior of the garment, or throughout the whole.

56 But if the place of the leprosy has become somewhat darker, after the garment has been washed, he shall tear it away, and separate it from the part that is sound.

57 But if, after this, there will appear in those places which before were immaculate, a flying and wandering leprosy, it must be burned with fire.

58 If it will have ceased, he shall wash with water the parts which are pure for a second time, and they shall be clean.

59 This is the law about leprosy for any woolen or linen garment, in the weave and in the threads, and for all items made from skins, how it must be declared either clean or contaminated.