Leviticus 13:29-59 ▼

29 |Now when a man or a woman has a skin rash on the head or the man develops a skin rash under his beard,

30 if when the priest examines the skin rash and indeed it appears more extensive than skin deep, and it's accompanied by fine, yellowish hair, then the priest is to declare him unclean. The scales on the head or the beard are an infectious skin disease.

31 But when the priest examines the scales of the skin rash and it doesn't appear more extensive than skin deep and there's no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate him for seven days.

32 When the priest examines the skin rash on the seventh day and finds that indeed the scab did not spread, there's no yellowish hair on it, and the scales don't appear more extensive than skin deep,

33 then he is to be shaven, but the scab is not to be shaved off. The priest is to isolate him a second time for seven days.

34 The priest is to examine the scab on the seventh day. If, indeed, the scab hasn't spread on the skin and it doesn't appear more extensive than skin deep, then the priest is to declare him clean. He is to wash his garments and be clean.

35 |But if the scales spread on the skin after his cleansing,

36 and the priest examines it and finds the scale to have spread on the skin, the priest need not look for yellowish hair, since he is clean.

37 If, in his opinion, the scab remained the same and a black hair grew in it, then the scab has healed. He's clean. The priest is to declare him clean.

38 If a man or a woman has a light or whitish spot in the skin of their body,

39 when the priest examines it and finds that there is a light or dull white patch of skin on the body, it's a harmless skin eruption that has spread on the skin. The person is clean.|

40 |When a man's head becomes bare, he's bald, but he's clean.

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

42 But when in the baldness of his head or his forehead there develops a skin rash that's white or reddish, it's an infectious skin disease that has spread to his bald head or forehead.

43 When the priest examines it and finds that the swelling of the skin rash is white or reddish on his bald head or forehead, similar in appearance to an infectious disease in the skin of the body,

44 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.

45 The person with the infectious skin disease is to tear his garments and loosen his hair. He is to cover his mustache and shout out, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

46 The whole time that the skin rash infects him, he will be unclean. He is to live by himself in a home outside the encampment.|

47 |When clothing becomes infected with a contagion—whether the clothing is wool or linen—

48 in woven or knitted material, in leather, or with any article containing leather,

49 if the contagion is greenish or reddish in the clothing, leather, woven material, knitted material, or with any article containing leather, it's a fungal infection and is to be shown to the priest.

50 |The priest is to examine the contagion and isolate the clothing for seven days.

51 The priest is to examine the contagion on the seventh day. If the infection has spread on the clothing, in the woven material, the knitted material, or in the leather, no matter the purpose for which the leather material had been manufactured, the contagion is a chronic fungal infection. It's unclean.

52 |Incinerate the clothing, the woven material, the knitted material (whether wool or linen), or any of the leather articles on which the contagion is found, because it's a chronic fungal infection. It is to be incinerated.

53 |But if the priest examines it and the infection did not spread on the clothing, either in the woven or knitted material or on anything made of leather,

54 then the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the contagion and then isolate it for seven days a second time.

55 Then the priest is to examine it after the contagion has been washed. If the contagion hasn't changed in appearance, even though the contagion hasn't spread, it's unclean. Incinerate it. It's a fungal infection, especially if the infection is on its exposed side.

56 |If the priest examines the item and determines that the contagion has become dull after it has been washed, tear it away from the garment, leather, woven material, or knitted material.

57 But if it recurs on the clothing (whether woven or knitted material) or on any article made of leather, it's a breakout, so incinerate it with fire wherever the contagion is found.

58 Then the clothing (whether it is woven or knitted material) or any article made of leather that you've washed, if the contagion has been removed from it and it's washed a second time, then it's clean.

59 |This is the law concerning fungal contagions on clothing of wool or linen (whether woven or knitted material) or in any of the articles made of leather, for determining whether it is clean or unclean.|