Leviticus 14:55

14:55 for the diseased garment,¹ for the house,²

Leviticus 14:54

Summary of Purification Regulations for Infections

14:54 “This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall,³

Leviticus 13:12

13:12 If, however, the disease breaks out⁴ on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection⁵ from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see,⁶

Leviticus 13:9

A Swelling on the Skin

13:9 “When someone has a diseased infection,⁷ he must be brought to the priest.

Leviticus 14:57

14:57 to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean.⁸ This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.”⁹

Leviticus 13:8

13:8 The priest must then examine it,¹⁰ and if¹¹ the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean.¹² It is a disease.

Leviticus 13:11

13:11 it is a chronic¹³ disease on the skin of his body,¹⁴ so the priest is to pronounce him unclean.¹⁵ The priest¹⁶ must not merely quarantine him, for he is unclean.¹⁷

Leviticus 13:15

13:15 so the priest is to examine the raw flesh¹⁸ and pronounce him unclean¹⁹ – it is diseased.

Leviticus 13:47

Infections in Garments, Cloth, or Leather

13:47 “When a garment has a diseased infection in it,²⁰ whether a wool or linen garment,²¹

Leviticus 14:32

14:32 This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection,²² who does not have sufficient means for his purification.”²³

¹sn Cf. Lev 13:47-59.

²sn Cf. Lev 14:33-53.

³tn Heb “and for the scall”; NASB “a scale”; NIV “any infectious skin disease.” Cf. Lev 13:29-37.

⁵tn Heb “And if spreading [infinitive absolute] it spreads out [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

⁶tn Heb “all the skin of the infection,” but see v. 4 above.

⁷tn Heb “to all the appearance of the eyes of the priest.”

⁷tn Heb “When there is an infection of disease in a man.” The term for “a man; a human being” (אָדָם, ’adam; see the note on Lev 1:2 and cf. v. 2 above) refers to any person among “mankind,” male or female. For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

⁹tn Heb “to teach in the day of the unclean and in the day of the clean.”

¹⁰tn Heb “This is the law of the disease.” Some English versions specify this as “skin disease” (e.g., NIV, NLT), but then have to add “and (+ infectious NLT) mildew” (so NIV) because a house would not be infected with a skin disease.

¹¹tn The “it” is not expressed but is to be understood. It refers to the “infection” (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

¹²tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

¹³tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’, cf. the note on v. 3 above).

¹³tn The term rendered here “chronic” is a Niphal participle meaning “grown old” (HALOT 448 s.v. II ישׁן nif.2). The idea is that this is an old enduring skin disease that keeps on developing or recurring.

¹⁴tn Heb “in the skin of his flesh” as opposed to the head or the beard (v. 29; cf. v. 2 above).

¹⁵tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’, cf. the note on v. 3 above).

¹⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷sn Instead of just the normal quarantine isolation, this condition calls for the more drastic and enduring response stated in Lev 13:45-46. Raw flesh, of course, sometimes oozes blood to one degree or another, and blood flows are by nature impure (see, e.g., Lev 12 and 15; cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 191).

¹⁵tn Heb “and the priest shall see the living flesh.”

¹⁶tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’; cf. the note on v. 3 above).

¹⁷tn Heb “And the garment, if there is in it a mark of disease.”

¹⁸tn Heb “in a wool garment or in a linen garment.”

¹⁹tn Heb “This is the law of who in him [is] a diseased infection.”

²⁰tn Heb “who his hand does not reach in his purification”; NASB “whose means are limited for his cleansing”; NIV “who cannot afford the regular offerings for his cleansing.”