LeviticusChapter 13

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¹Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, ²"Someone may have a swelling, a rash, or a bright spot on his skin. It may be a skin disease that spreads. Then he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. ³The priest must look closely at the sore on his skin. The hair in the sore may have turned white. The sore may seem deeper than the skin. If so, it is a skin disease. After the priest looks at him, he must say that the person is unclean. ⁴But the spot on his skin may be white and not seem deeper than the skin. The hair in it may not have turned white. Then the priest must keep the sick person apart for seven days. ⁵On the seventh day the priest must look at him again. He may see that the sore has not changed or spread on the skin. Then the priest must keep him apart for seven more days. ⁶On the seventh day the priest will look at him again. The sore may have faded and not spread on the skin. Then the priest must say that the person is clean. It is only a rash. The person must wash his clothes, and he will be clean. ⁷But he may have shown himself to the priest to be made clean, and then the rash spreads more on his skin. If so, he must show himself to the priest again. ⁸The priest will look at him again. If the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must say that he is unclean. It is a skin disease. ⁹When anyone gets a skin disease, he must be brought to the priest. ¹⁰The priest will look at him closely. There may be a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white. There may be raw flesh in the swelling. ¹¹If so, it is a skin disease that has lasted a long time. The priest must say that he is unclean. The priest does not need to keep him apart, because he is already unclean. ¹²But the skin disease may break out all over his skin. It may cover all the skin of the sick person from head to foot, everywhere the priest can see. ¹³Then the priest must look at him. If the disease has covered his whole body, the priest must say that the person is clean. All of it has turned white, so he is clean. ¹⁴But any time raw flesh shows up on someone, he will be unclean. ¹⁵When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must say that the person is unclean. The raw flesh is unclean. It is a skin disease. ¹⁶But the raw flesh may change and turn white. Then the person must go to the priest. ¹⁷The priest will look at him again. If the sore has turned white, the priest must say that the sick person is clean. Then he is clean. ¹⁸Someone may have a boil on his skin, and it heals. ¹⁹Then a white swelling or a reddish-white spot may show up where the boil was. If so, he must show himself to the priest. ²⁰The priest must look at it. It may seem to be under the skin, and the hair in it may have turned white. Then the priest must say that the person is unclean. It is a disease that has broken out in the boil. ²¹But the priest may look at it and find no white hair in it. It may not be under the skin, and it may have faded. Then the priest must keep the person apart for seven days. ²²If it spreads any more on the skin, the priest must say that the person is unclean. It is a disease. ²³But the spot may stay the same and not spread. Then it is only the scar from the boil. The priest must say that the person is clean. ²⁴Someone may have a burn on his skin. The raw part of the burn may turn reddish-white or white. ²⁵Then the priest must look at it. The hair in the spot may have turned white. The spot may seem deeper than the skin. If so, it is a disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must say that the person is unclean. It is a disease. ²⁶But the priest may look at it and find no white hair in the spot. It may not be under the skin, and it may have faded. Then the priest must keep the person apart for seven days. ²⁷On the seventh day the priest must look at him again. If it has spread more on the skin, the priest must say that he is unclean. It is a disease. ²⁸But the spot may stay the same and not spread on the skin, and it may have faded. Then it is a swelling from the burn. The priest must say that the person is clean. It is only the scar from the burn. ²⁹A man or a woman may have a sore on the head or the chin. ³⁰The priest must look at the sore. It may seem deeper than the skin. The hair in it may be yellow and thin. If so, the priest must say that the person is unclean. It is a scaly sore. It is a disease of the head or chin that spreads. ³¹But the priest may look at the scaly sore and find that it does not seem deeper than the skin. There may be no black hair in it. Then the priest must keep the sick person apart for seven days. ³²On the seventh day the priest must look at the sore again. The scaly sore may not have spread. There may be no yellow hair in it. It may not seem deeper than the skin. ³³If so, the person must shave himself, but not the scaly part. Then the priest must keep him apart for seven more days. ³⁴On the seventh day the priest must look at the scaly sore. It may not have spread on the skin. It may not seem deeper than the skin. Then the priest must say that the person is clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean. ³⁵But the scaly sore may spread more on the skin after he has been made clean. ³⁶Then the priest must look at him. If the scaly sore has spread on the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair. The person is unclean. ³⁷But the priest may see that the scaly sore has not changed, and black hair has grown in it. Then it has healed. The person is clean, and the priest must say that he is clean. ³⁸A man or a woman may have white spots on the skin. ³⁹The priest must look at them. If the spots are a dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin. The person is clean. ⁴⁰A man may lose his hair and be bald. He is still clean. ⁴¹Or his hair may go back from the front, so that he is bald on his forehead. He is still clean. ⁴²But there may be a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead. Then it is a disease that spreads, breaking out there. ⁴³The priest must look at him. He must see if the swelling of the sore on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease, ⁴⁴If so, the man has a disease. He is unclean. The priest must say that he is unclean because of the sore on his head. ⁴⁵A person with this disease must wear torn clothes. He must let his hair hang loose. He must cover his mouth and call out, 'Unclean, unclean!' ⁴⁶As long as he has the sore, he stays unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp. ⁴⁷Mildew may get into some cloth. It may be any piece of clothing made of wool or linen. ⁴⁸It may be any woven or knitted cloth of linen or wool. It may be anything made of leather. ⁴⁹The mark in the cloth, the leather, the woven or knitted cloth, or the leather item may be green or red. Then it has mildew in it. It must be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰The priest must look at the mildew. He must keep the item with mildew apart for seven days. ⁵¹On the seventh day the priest must look at it again. The mildew may have spread in the cloth, the woven or knitted cloth, or the leather. If so, it is a harmful mildew, no matter what the item is used for. The item is unclean. ⁵²He must burn the cloth, whether it is woven or knitted. He must burn it whether the item with mildew is wool, linen, or leather. The mildew is harmful, so the item must be burned up. ⁵³But the priest may look at it again and see that the mildew has not spread. It has not spread in the cloth, the woven or knitted cloth, or the leather item. ⁵⁴Then the priest must order that the item with mildew be washed. It must be kept apart for seven more days. ⁵⁵After it has been washed, the priest must look at it again. The item with mildew may not look any different. Then it is unclean, even though the mildew has not spread. You must burn it. Burn it whether the rot is on the front or the back. ⁵⁶But the priest may look at it and see that the mildew has faded after it was washed. Then he must cut that part out of the cloth, the leather, or the woven or knitted cloth. ⁵⁷But the mildew may come back in the cloth, the woven or knitted cloth, or any leather item. If so, it is spreading. You must burn the item that has mildew. ⁵⁸The mildew may go away from the cloth, the woven or knitted cloth, or any leather item after it is washed. Then it must be washed again, and it will be clean. ⁵⁹This is the law about mildew in cloth made of wool or linen. It covers woven or knitted cloth and anything made of leather. It tells how to say whether these things are clean or unclean."