Leviticus 13:12-13

13:12 If, however, the disease breaks out ¹  on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection ²  from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see, ³  13:13 the priest must then examine it, ⁴  and if ⁵  the disease covers his whole body, he is to pronounce the person with the infection clean. ⁶  He has turned all white, so he is clean. ⁷ 

Leviticus 13:16-17

13:16 If, however, ⁸  the raw flesh once again turns white, ⁹  then he must come to the priest. 13:17 The priest will then examine it, ¹⁰  and if ¹¹  the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the person with the infection clean ¹²  – he is clean.

[13:12]  ¹ tn 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.

[13:12]  ² tn Heb “all the skin of the infection,” but see v. 4 above.

[13:12]  ³ tn Heb “to all the appearance of the eyes of the priest.”

[13:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the priest shall see.” The pronoun “it” is unexpressed, but it should be assumed and it refers to the infection (cf. the note on v. 8 above).

[13:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[13:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “he shall pronounce the infection clean,” but see v. 4 above. Also, this is another use of the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher; cf. the note on v. 6 above).

[13:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “all of him has turned white, and he is clean.”

[13:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “Or if/when.”

[13:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “the living flesh returns and is turned/changed to white.” The Hebrew verb “returns” is שׁוּב (shuv), which often functions adverbially when combined with a second verb as it is here (cf. “and is turned”) and, in such cases, is usually rendered “again” (see, e.g., GKC 386-87 §120.g). Another suggestion is that here שׁוּב means “to recede” (cf., e.g., 2 Kgs 20:9), so one could translate “the raw flesh recedes and turns white.” This would mean that the new “white” skin “has grown over” the raw flesh (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 79).

[13:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the priest shall see it.”

[13:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[13:17]  ¹² tn Heb “the priest shall pronounce the infection clean,” but see v. 4 above. Also, this is another use of the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).