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 13:20

13:20 The priest will then examine it, ⁸  and if ⁹  it appears to be deeper than the skin ¹⁰  and its hair has turned white, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. ¹¹  It is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil. ¹² 

Leviticus 13:27

13:27 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further ¹³  on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 13:42-43

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, ¹⁵  and if ¹⁶  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, ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 13:45-46

The Life of the Person with Skin Disease

13:45 “As for the diseased person who has the infection, ¹⁸  his clothes must be torn, the hair of his head must be unbound, he must cover his mustache, ¹⁹  and he must call out ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 13:46 The whole time he has the infection ²⁰  he will be continually unclean. He must live in isolation, and his place of residence must be outside the camp.

Leviticus 13:53

13:53 But if the priest examines it and ²¹  the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather,

Leviticus 13:58

13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it ²²  is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Leviticus 14:3

14:3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. ²³  If the infection of the diseased person has been healed, ²⁴ 

Leviticus 14:34

14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give ²⁵  to you for a possession, and I put ²⁶  a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess, ²⁷ 

Leviticus 14:40

14:40 then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown ²⁸  outside the city ²⁹  into an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:43-44

14:43 “If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered, ³⁰  14:44 the priest is to come and examine it, and if ³¹  the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.

[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.”

[13:20]  ⁷ 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).

[13:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “and behold.”

[13:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “and behold its appearance is low (שָׁפָל, shafal) ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “lower than”) the skin.” Compare “deeper” in v. 3 above where, however, a different word is used (עָמֹק, ’amoq), and see the note on “swelling” in v. 1 above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 192; note that, contrary to the MT, Tg. Onq. has עָמֹק in this verse as well as v. 4). The alternation of these two terms (i.e., “deeper” and “lower”) in vv. 25-26 below shows that they both refer to the same phenomenon. Some have argued that “this sore was lower than the surrounding skin” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:773, 788), in which case “swelling” would be an inappropriate translation of שְׂאֵת (sÿ’et) in v. 19. It seems unlikely, however, that the surface of a “boil” would sink below the surface of the surrounding skin. The infectious pus etc. that makes up a boil normally causes swelling.

[13:20]  ¹⁰ tn The declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’, cf. the note on v. 3 above).

[13:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “It is an infection of disease. In the boil it has broken out.” For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[13:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “is indeed spreading.”

[13:27]  ¹¹ tn For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[13:43]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the priest shall see it” (cf. KJV). The MT has “him/it” which some take to refer to the person as a whole (i.e., “him”; see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:770; NIV, NRSV, etc.), while others take it as a reference to the “infection” (נֶגַע, nega’) in v. 42 (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 172, 177). Smr has “her/it,” which would probably refer to “disease” (צָרַעַת, tsara’at) in v. 42. The general pattern in the chapter suggests that “it,” either the infection or the disease, is the object of the examination (see, e.g., v. 3 above and v. 50 below).

[13:43]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and behold.”

[13:43]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “like appearance of disease of skin of flesh.”

[13:45]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And the diseased one who in him is the infection.”

[13:45]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and his head shall be unbound, and he shall cover on [his] mustache.” Tearing one’s clothing, allowing the hair to hang loose rather than bound up in a turban, and covering the mustache on the upper lip are all ways of expressing shame, grief, or distress (cf., e.g., Lev 10:6 and Micah 3:7).

[13:46]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “All the days which the infection is in him.”

[13:53]  ²² tn Heb “And if the priest sees and behold”; NASB “and indeed.”

[13:58]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”

[14:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and he shall be brought to the priest and the priest shall go out to from outside to the camp and the priest shall see [it].” The understood “it” refers to the skin infection itself (see the note on 13:3 above). The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “And behold, the diseased infection has been healed from the diseased person.” The expression “diseased infection” has been translated as simply “infection” to avoid redundancy here in terms of English style.

[14:34]  ³¹ tn Heb “which I am giving” (so NAB, NIV).

[14:34]  ³² tn Heb “give.”

[14:34]  ³³ tn Heb “in the house of the land of your possession” (KJV and ASV both similar).

[14:40]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and the priest shall command and they shall pull out the stones which in them is the infection, and they shall cast them.” The second and third verbs (“they shall pull out” and “they shall throw”) state the thrust of the priest’s command, which suggests the translation “that they pull out…and throw” (cf. also vv. 4a, 5a, and 36a above), and for the impersonal passive rendering of the active verb (“be pulled and thrown”) see the note on v. 4 above.

[14:40]  ³⁵ tn Heb “into from outside to the city.”

[14:43]  ³⁷ tn Heb “after he has pulled out the stones, and after scraping (variant form of the Hiphil infinitive construct, GKC 531) the house, and after being replastered (Niphal infinitive construct).”

[14:44]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “If he sees that the mark has indeed spread.”