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Text -- Leviticus 13:39-59 (NET)
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13:39 the priest is to examine them, and if the bright spots on the skin of their body are faded white , it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin . The person is clean .
Baldness on the Head
13:40 “When a man’s head is bare so that he is balding in back, he is clean .
13:41 If his head is bare on the forehead so that he is balding in front , he is clean .
13:42 But if there is a reddish white infection in the back or front bald area, it is a disease breaking out in his back or front bald area.
13:43 The priest is to examine it, and if the swelling of the infection is reddish white in the back or front bald area like the appearance of a disease on the skin of the body ,
13:44 he is a diseased man . He is unclean . The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head .
The Life of the Person with Skin Disease
13:45 “As for the diseased person who has the infection , his clothes must be torn , the hair of his head must be unbound , he must cover his mustache , and he must call out ‘Unclean ! Unclean !’
13:46 The whole time he has the infection he will be continually unclean . He must live in isolation , and his place of residence must be outside the camp .
Infections in Garments, Cloth, or Leather
13:47 “When a garment has a diseased infection in it, whether a wool or linen garment ,
13:48 or in the warp or woof of the linen or the wool , or in leather or anything made of leather ,
13:49 if the infection in the garment or leather or warp or woof or any article of leather is yellowish green or reddish , it is a diseased infection and it must be shown to the priest .
13:50 The priest is to examine and then quarantine the article with the infection for seven days .
13:51 He must then examine the infection on the seventh day . If the infection has spread in the garment , or in the warp , or in the woof , or in the leather – whatever the article into which the leather was made – the infection is a malignant disease . It is unclean .
13:52 He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof , whether wool or linen , or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire .
13:53 But if the priest examines it and the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather ,
13:54 the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the infection and quarantine it for another seven days .
13:55 The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out , and if the infection has not changed its appearance even though the infection has not spread , it is unclean . You must burn it up in the fire . It is a fungus , whether on the back side or front side of the article.
13:56 But if the priest has examined it and the infection has faded after it has been washed , he is to tear it out of the garment or the leather or the warp or the woof .
13:57 Then if it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof , or in any article of leather , it is an outbreak . Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire .
13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it is to be washed a second time and it will be clean .”
Summary of Infection Regulations
13:59 This is the law of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen , or the warp or woof , or any article of leather , for pronouncing it clean or unclean .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Leprosy |
CLEAN |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
LEPER; LEPROSY |
SPOT; SPOTTED |
TALMUD |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
Ablution |
PRIESTS AND LEVITES |
PRIEST, HIGH |
PLAGUE |
UNCLEANNESS |
COLOR; COLORS |
Sanitation |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
Purification |
Israel |
Dress |
Wool |
WARP |
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NET Notes -> Lev 13:39; Lev 13:39; Lev 13:39; Lev 13:40; Lev 13:41; Lev 13:41; Lev 13:43; Lev 13:43; Lev 13:43; Lev 13:44; Lev 13:45; Lev 13:45; Lev 13:46; Lev 13:47; Lev 13:47; Lev 13:48; Lev 13:48; Lev 13:49; Lev 13:50; Lev 13:51; Lev 13:53; Lev 13:54; Lev 13:55; Lev 13:55; Lev 13:55; Lev 13:56; Lev 13:56; Lev 13:57; Lev 13:58; Lev 13:59; Lev 13:59
NET Notes: Lev 13:39 Heb “he,” but the regulation applies to a man or a woman (v. 38a). In the translation “the person” is used to specify the refe...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:40 Heb “And a man, when his head is rubbed bare, he is bald-headed.” The translation offered here, referring to the back of the head (i.e., t...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:41 The rendering “balding in front” corresponds to the location of the bareness at the beginning of the verse.
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NET Notes: Lev 13:44 Or perhaps translate, “His infection [is] on his head,” as a separate independent sentence (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV). There is no causal ...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:45 Heb “and his head shall be unbound, and he shall cover on [his] mustache.” Tearing one’s clothing, allowing the hair to hang loose r...
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NET Notes: Lev 13:48 Heb “in any handiwork of skin” (cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV); most other modern English versions have “leather.”
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NET Notes: Lev 13:49 Heb “and the infection is.” This clause is conditional in force, and is translated as such by almost all English versions.
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NET Notes: Lev 13:50 Heb “And the priest shall see the infection and he shall shut up the infection seven days.”
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NET Notes: Lev 13:55 The terms “back side” and “front side” are the same as those used in v. 42 for the “back or front bald area” of a ...
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