Leviticus 13:17

13:17 The priest will then examine it, ¹  and if ²  the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the person with the infection clean ³  – he is clean.

Leviticus 13:5

13:5 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if, ⁴  as far as he can see, the infection has stayed the same ⁵  and has not spread on the skin, ⁶  then the priest is to quarantine the person for another seven days. ⁷ 

Leviticus 13:27

13:27 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further ⁸  on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection. ⁹ 

Leviticus 13:36

13:36 then the priest is to examine it, and if ¹⁰  the scall has spread on the skin the priest is not to search further for reddish yellow hair. ¹¹  The person ¹²  is unclean.

Leviticus 13:3

13:3 The priest must then examine the infection ¹³  on the skin of the body, and if the hair ¹⁴  in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of the body, ¹⁵  then it is a diseased infection, ¹⁶  so when the priest examines it ¹⁷  he must pronounce the person unclean. ¹⁸ 

[13:17]  ¹ tn Heb “and the priest shall see it.”

[13:17]  ² tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[13:17]  ³ 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).

[13:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the infection has stood in his eyes”; ASV “if in his eyes the plague be at a stay.”

[13:5]  ⁶ tn Although there is no expressed “and” at the beginning of this clause, there is in the corresponding clause of v. 6, so it should be assumed here as well.

[13:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “a second seven days.”

[13:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “is indeed spreading.”

[13:27]  ⁸ tn For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[13:36]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and behold.”

[13:36]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the priest shall not search to the reddish yellow hair.”

[13:36]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the affected person) is specified in the translation for clarity (likewise in the following verse).

[13:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the priest shall see the infection.”

[13:3]  ¹⁴ tn There is no “if” expressed, but the contrast between the priestly finding in this verse and the next verse clearly implies it.

[13:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the appearance of the infection is deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “deeper than”) the skin of the his flesh.” See the note on v. 20 below.

[13:3]  ¹⁶ tn For the translation “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above. Cf. TEV “a dreaded skin disease”; NIV “an infectious skin disease”; NLT “a contagious skin disease.”

[13:3]  ¹⁷ tn The pronoun “it” here refers to the “infection,” not the person who has the infection (cf. the object of “examine” at the beginning of the verse).

[13:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he shall make him unclean.” The verb is the Piel of טָמֵא (tame’) “to be unclean.” Here it is a so-called “declarative” Piel (i.e., “to declare unclean”), but it also implies that the person is put into the category of actually being “unclean” by the pronouncement itself (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 175; cf. the corresponding opposite in v. 6 below).