Leviticus 13:56-59

13:56 But if the priest has examined it and ¹  the infection has faded after it has been washed, he is to tear it out of ²  the garment or the leather or the warp or the woof. 13:57 Then if ³  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 ⁴  is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Summary of Infection Regulations

13:59 This is the law ⁵  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. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “And if the priest saw and behold….”

² tn Heb “and he shall tear it from.”

³ tn Heb “And if”; NIV, NCV “But if”; NAB “If, however.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”

⁵ sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תוֹרָה, torah) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of Lev 13. Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 11:46-47; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33.

⁶ tn These are declarative Piel forms of the verbs טָהֵר (taher) and טָמֵא (tame’) respectively (cf. the notes on vv. 3 and 6 above).