Leviticus 13:6

Context
13:6 The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day,¹ and if² the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean.³ It is a scab,⁴ so he must wash his clothes⁵ and be clean.

Leviticus 13:25

Context
13:25 the priest must examine it,⁶ and if⁷ the hair has turned white in the bright spot and it appears to be deeper than the skin,⁸ it is a disease that has broken out in the burn.⁹ The priest is to pronounce the person unclean.¹⁰ It is a diseased infection.¹¹

Leviticus 13:51

Context
13:51 He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather – whatever the article into which the leather was made¹² – the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

Leviticus 13:55

Context
13:55 The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if¹³ the infection has not changed its appearance¹⁴ even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article.¹⁵

[13:6] ¹tn That is, at the end of the second set of seven days referred to at the end of v. 5, a total of fourteen days after the first appearance before the priest.

[13:6] ²tn Heb “and behold.”

[13:6] ³tn Heb “he shall make him clean.” The verb is the Piel of טָהֵר (taher, “to be clean”). Here it is a so-called “declarative” Piel (i.e., “to declare clean”), but it also implies that the person is put into the category of being “clean” by the pronouncement itself (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 176; cf. the corresponding opposite in v. 3 above).

[13:6] ⁴tn On the term “scab” see the note on v. 2 above. Cf. NAB “it was merely eczema”; NRSV “only an eruption”; NLT “only a temporary rash.”

[13:6] ⁵tn Heb “and he shall wash his clothes.”

[13:25] ⁶tn Heb “and the priest shall see it.”

[13:25] ⁷tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:25] ⁸tn Heb “and its appearance is deep ‘from’ [comparative מִן (min) meaning ‘deeper than’] the skin.”

[13:25] ⁹tn Heb “it is a disease. In the burn it has broken out.”

[13:25] ¹⁰tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’; cf. the note on v. 3 above).

[13:25] ¹¹tn For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[13:51] ¹¹tn Heb “to all which the leather was made into a handiwork.”

[13:55] ¹⁶tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:55] ¹⁷tn Heb “the infection has not changed its eye.” Smr has “its/his eyes,” as in vv. 5 and 37, but here it refers to the appearance of the article of cloth or leather, unlike vv. 5 and 37 where there is a preposition attached and it refers to the eyes of the priest.

[13:55] ¹⁸tn The terms “back side” and “front side” are the same as those used in v. 42 for the “back or front bald area” of a man’s head. The exact meaning of these terms when applied to articles of cloth or leather is uncertain. It could refer, for example, to the inside versus the outside of a garment, or the back versus the front side of an article of cloth or leather. See J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:814, for various possibilities.