Leviticus 13

1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

2“When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.Cross-references: Ex 4:6 · Lev 14:3 · Lev 14:35 · Lev 14:56 · Num 12:10 · Num 12:12 · +14 more

3The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.Cross-references: Gen 13:3 · Lev 10:10 · Lev 13:2 · Ezek 16:30 · Ezek 44:23 · Hos 7:9 · +15 more

4If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.Cross-references: Num 12:15 · Deut 13:14 · Ezek 44:10 · 1Cor 4:5 · 1Tim 5:24

5The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.

6The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.Cross-references: Lev 11:25 · Lev 11:28 · Lev 11:40 · Lev 13:2 · Lev 14:8 · Deut 32:5 · +15 more

7But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.Cross-references: Lev 13:27 · Lev 13:35 · Ps 38:3 · Isa 1:5 · Rom 6:12 · 2Tim 2:16

8The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.Cross-references: Lev 13:3 · Matt 15:7 · Acts 8:21 · Phil 3:18 · 2Pet 2:19

9“When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

10and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,Cross-references: Lev 13:3 · Lev 13:14 · Lev 13:24 · Num 12:10 · 2Ki 5:27 · 2Chr 26:19 · +4 more

11it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean.

12“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,Cross-references: 1Ki 8:38 · Job 40:4 · Job 42:6 · Isa 64:6 · John 16:8 · Rom 7:14 · +1 more

13then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.Cross-references: Isa 64:6 · John 9:41

14But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.

15The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.

16Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.Cross-references: Rom 7:14 · Gal 1:14 · Phil 3:6 · 1Tim 1:13

17The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.

18“When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,Cross-references: Ex 9:9 · Ex 15:26 · 2Ki 20:7 · Job 2:7 · Ps 38:3 · Isa 38:21

19and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.Cross-references: Lev 13:24

20The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.Cross-references: Lev 13:3 · Matt 12:45 · John 5:14 · 2Pet 2:20

21But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.Cross-references: 1Cor 5:5

22If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.

23But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.Cross-references: Gen 38:26 · 2Sam 12:13 · 2Chr 19:2 · Job 34:31 · Job 40:4 · Prov 28:13 · +4 more

24“Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,Cross-references: Isa 3:24

25then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.Cross-references: Lev 13:4 · Lev 13:18

26But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.Cross-references: Lev 13:4 · Lev 13:23

27The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

28If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.

29“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,Cross-references: 1Ki 8:38 · 1Ki 12:28 · 2Chr 6:29 · Ps 53:4 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 5:20 · +9 more

30then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.Cross-references: Lev 13:34 · Lev 14:54

31If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.

32On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,Cross-references: Lev 13:30 · Matt 23:5 · Luke 18:9 · Rom 2:23

33then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days.

34On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.Cross-references: 1John 4:1 · Jude 1:22 · Rev 2:2

35But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,Cross-references: Lev 13:7 · Lev 13:27 · 2Tim 2:16 · 2Tim 3:13

36then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

37But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.

38“When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots,

39then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.Cross-references: Eccl 7:20 · Rom 7:22 · James 3:2

40“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.Cross-references: Lev 13:41 · 2Ki 2:23 · Song 5:11 · Isa 15:2 · Amos 8:10 · Rom 6:12 · +3 more

41If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, his forehead is bald. He is clean.

42But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead.

43Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

44he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.Cross-references: Job 36:14 · Isa 1:5 · Matt 6:23 · 2Pet 2:1 · 2John 1:8

45“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Lev 10:6 · Lev 21:10 · 2Sam 13:19 · Job 1:20 · Job 42:6 · +15 more

46All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.Cross-references: Num 5:1 · Num 12:14 · 2Ki 7:3 · 2Ki 15:5 · 2Chr 26:21 · Prov 30:12 · +11 more

47“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;Cross-references: Isa 3:16 · Isa 59:6 · Isa 64:6 · Ezek 16:16 · Rom 13:12 · Eph 4:22 · +2 more

48whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in leather, or in anything made of leather;Cross-references: Lev 13:51 · Deut 8:11 · Jude 1:23 · Rev 3:4

49if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.

50The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.Cross-references: Ezek 44:23

51He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.Cross-references: Lev 14:44

52He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.Cross-references: Lev 11:33 · Lev 11:35 · Lev 14:44 · Deut 7:25 · Isa 30:22 · Acts 19:19

53“If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;

54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days.

55Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.Cross-references: Ezek 24:13 · Heb 6:4 · 2Pet 1:9 · 2Pet 2:20

56If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof;

57and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn what the plague is in with fire.Cross-references: Isa 33:14 · Matt 3:12 · Matt 22:7 · Matt 25:41 · Rev 21:8 · Rev 21:27

58The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”Cross-references: 2Ki 5:10 · 2Ki 5:14 · Ps 51:2 · 2Cor 7:1 · 2Cor 12:8 · Heb 9:10 · +1 more

59This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.