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Leviticus 13

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Leviticus 13 . 1 , The laws and tokens whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy.

Leviticus 13:1

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Leviticus 13:1 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:2

"When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that could become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.

Leviticus 13:2 · BSB

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the plague of leprosy11 parallels

Tzaraâth , the Leprosy , from the Greek כונסב , from כוניע , a scale; so called , because in this disease the body is covered with thin white scales , so as to give it the appearance of snow. The leprosy is a dreadful , contagious disorder , common in Egypt and Syria , and generally manifests itself at first in the manner described in the text. Its commencement is imperceptible; there appearing only a few reddish spots on the skin , which are not attended with pain or any other symptom , but cannot be removed. It increases imperceptibly , and continues for some years to be more and more manifest. The spots become larger , spread over the whole skin , and are sometimes rather raised , though generally flat. When it increases the upper part of the nose swells , the nostrils distend , the nose becomes soft , swellings appear on the under jaws , the eyebrows are elevated , the ears grow thick , the ends of the fingers , feet , and toes , swell , the nails grow scaly , the joints of the hands and feet separate , the palms of hands and soles of the feet are ulcerated , and in its last stage the patient becomes horrible , and falls to pieces

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rising or , swelling

Leviticus 13:3

The priest is to examine the infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.

Leviticus 13:3 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:4

If, however, the spot on his skin is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

Leviticus 13:4 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:5

On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.

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Leviticus 13:6

The priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a rash. The person must wash his clothes and be clean.

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Leviticus 13:7

But if the rash spreads further on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.

Leviticus 13:7 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:8

The priest will reexamine him, and if the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a skin disease.

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Leviticus 13:10

The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Leviticus 13:10 · BSB

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Heb. the quickening of living flesh

Leviticus 13:12

But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,

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Leviticus 13:13

the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.

Leviticus 13:13 · BSB

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if the leprosy It may seem strange that the partial leper should be pronounced unclean , and the person totally covered with the disease clean. This was probably owing to a different species or stage of the disease; the partial being contagious , the total not. That there are two different species , or degrees , of the disease described here , is sufficiently evident . in one , the person was all covered with a white enamelled scurf; in the other , there was a quick raw flesh in the risings. On this account , the one was deemed unclean , or contagious , the other not; for contact with the quick raw flesh would be more likely to communicate the disease , than the touch of the hard dry scurf. The ichor proceeding from the former , when brought into contact with the flesh of another , would soon be taken into constitution by means of the absorbent vessels; but where the surface was perfectly dry; the absorbent vessels of another , coming in contact with the diseased man , could imbibe nothing , and there was consequently but little or no danger of infection. This is the learned Dr. Mead's view of the subject; who thus accounts for the circumstances mentioned in the text.

Leviticus 13:14

But whenever raw flesh appears on someone, he will be unclean.

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Leviticus 13:15

When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.

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Leviticus 13:16

But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.

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Leviticus 13:17

The priest will reexamine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the infected person clean; then he is clean.

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Leviticus 13:18

When a boil appears on someone's skin and it heals,

Leviticus 13:18 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:19

and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, he must present himself to the priest.

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Leviticus 13:20

The priest shall examine it, and if it appears to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil.

Leviticus 13:20 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:21

But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin and has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.

Leviticus 13:21 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:22

If it spreads any further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

Leviticus 13:22 · BSB

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i.e. "The plague of leprosy"

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Leviticus 13:23

But if the spot remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13:23 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:24

When there is a burn on someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,

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Heb. a burning of fire

  • Isaiah 3:24 This is supposed to state the case of such as had been hurt by fire; which would leave a scar , in which the leprosy might appear , and which was to be distinguished by the rules here given

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Leviticus 13:25

the priest must examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection.

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Leviticus 13:26

But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot, and it is not beneath the skin but has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.

Leviticus 13:26 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:27

On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if it has spread further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection.

Leviticus 13:27 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:29

If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,

Leviticus 13:29 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:30

the priest shall examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or chin.

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Leviticus 13:31

But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

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Leviticus 13:32

On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine the infection, and if the scaly outbreak has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,

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Leviticus 13:34

On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scaly outbreak, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 13:34 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:35

If, however, the scaly outbreak spreads further on the skin after his cleansing,

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Leviticus 13:36

the priest is to examine him, and if the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest need not look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.

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Leviticus 13:39

the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

Leviticus 13:39 · BSB

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The word bohak , from the Syriac behak , to be white , or shining , here rendered "a freckled spot ," is used by the Arabs to denote a kind of leprosy , of which Niebuhr says , "Bohak is neither contagious nor dangerous. A black boy at Mocha , who was affected with this eruption , had here and there upon his body white spots. We were told that the use of sulphur had relieved this boy for a time , but had not entirely removed the disease." He adds subsequently from Forskal's papers , "The Arabs call a sort of leprosy , in which some little spots shew themselves here and there on the body , behaq; and it is without doubt the same as is named bohak , (

  • Leviticus 13:1-59 ). They believe it to be so far from contagious , that one may sleep with a person affected without danger

On the 15th day of May , 1765 , I myself first saw the Bohak leprosy in a Jew at Mocha. The spots in this disease are of an unequal size. They do not shine; are not perceptibly higher than the skin; and do not change the colour of the hair. Their colour is an obscure white , inclining to red. The rest of the skin of the patient was darker than that of the people of the country in general; but the spots were not so white as the skin of an European , when not sun-burnt. The spots in this leprosy do not appear on the hands , or near the navel , but on the neck and face , yet not on that part where the hair grows thick. They gradually spread , and continue sometimes only about two months , but in some cases one or two years , and then disappear by degrees , of themselves. This disorder is neither contagious nor hereditary , nor does it occasion any inconvenience. Hence a person infected with the bohak is declared clean."

Leviticus 13:40

Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.

Leviticus 13:40 · BSB

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Heb. head is pilled

Leviticus 13:41

Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.

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Leviticus 13:42

But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.

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Leviticus 13:43

The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,

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Leviticus 13:44

the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.

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Leviticus 13:45

A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!'

Leviticus 13:45 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:46

As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

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Leviticus 13:47

If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,

Leviticus 13:47 · BSB

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This leprosy in garments appears so strange to us , that it has induced some , with Bp. Patrick , to consider it as an extraordinary punishment inflicted by God upon the Israelites , as a sign of his high displeasure; while others consider the leprosy in clothes . and also houses as having no relation to the leprosy in man. When Michaelis was considering the subject , he was told by a dealer in wool , that the wool of sheep which die of a disease , if it has not been shorn from the animal while living , is unfit to manufacture cloth , and liable to something like what Moses here describes , and which he imagines to be the plague of leprosy in garments. The whole account , however , as Dr. A. Clarke observes , seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by the contagion of the real leprosy; which it is probable was occasioned by a species of animacula , or vermin , burrowing in the skin , which we know to be the cause of the itch; these , by breeding in the garments , must necessarily multiply their kind , and fret the garments , i.e. , corrode a portion of the finer parts , after the manner of moths , for their nourishment. The infection of garments has frequently been known to cause the worst species of scarlet fever , and even the plague; and those infected with psora , or itch animal , have communicated the disease even in six or seven years after the infection

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Leviticus 13:48

any weave or knit of linen or wool, or any article of leather—

Leviticus 13:48 · BSB

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Heb. work of

Leviticus 13:49

and if the mark in the fabric, leather, weave, knit, or leather article is green or red, then it is contaminated with mildew and must be shown to the priest.

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thing of skin Heb. vessel , or instrument

Leviticus 13:50

And the priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the contaminated fabric for seven days.

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Leviticus 13:51

On the seventh day the priest shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.

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Leviticus 13:52

He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.

Leviticus 13:52 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:55

After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.

Leviticus 13:55 · BSB

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it be bare within or without Heb. it be bald in the head thereof , or in the forehead thereof

Leviticus 13:57

But if it reappears in the fabric, weave, or knit, or on any leather article, it is spreading. You must burn the contaminated article.

Leviticus 13:57 · BSB

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Leviticus 13:58

If the mildew disappears from the fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article after washing, then it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.

Leviticus 13:58 · BSB

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  • 2 Kings 5:10
  • 2 Kings 5:14
  • Psalm 51:2
  • 2 Corinthians 7:1
  • 2 Corinthians 12:8
  • Hebrews 9:10
  • Revelation 1:5 The plague of leprosy was inflicted immediately from the hand of God , and came not from natural causes , as other diseases; and therefore must be managed according to a divine law. Miriam's leprosy , and Gehazi's and King Uzziah's were all the punishments of particular sins; and if generally it was so , no marvel there was so much care taken to distinguish it from a common distemper , that none might be looked upon as lying under this extraordinary token of Divine displeasure , but those that really were so

Leviticus 13:59

This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”

Leviticus 13:59 · BSB

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Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Acts 10:15 → Leviticus 13:13, Deuteronomy 24:8 → Leviticus 13, Deuteronomy 24:8-9 → Leviticus 13, Isaiah 52:11 → Leviticus 13:45, Isaiah 52:11-12 → Leviticus 13:45
Trajectories
Camp of Israel (Sacred Geography), Leprosy (The Plague of Sin)
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