Leviticus 13

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ² "In case a human comes to have in the skin of his flesh a nodule or a scurf or a blotch, and it comes in the skin of his flesh as the contagion of leprous disease, then the matter will be brought before Aaron the priest, or before one of his sons the priests. ³ When the priest examines the contagious area in the skin of the flesh, and the hair in the contagious area has turned white and the appearance of the contagion is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the contagion of leprous disease. When the priest has examined it he will pronounce him unclean. ⁴ Yet if the blotch is white, that in the skin of his flesh, and is not deeper in its appearance than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest will enclose the contagious person seven days. ⁵ The priest will examine him on the seventh day, and behold, if in his eyes the contagion stays, the contagion has not diffused in the skin, then the priest will enclose him a second seven days. ⁶ The priest will examine him on the second seventh day, and behold, if the contagion is inconspicuous and the contagion has not diffused in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean; it is a scurf. He will rinse his garments; then he will be clean. ⁷ Yet if the scurf should have diffused, yea diffused in the skin after his appearance before the priest for his cleansing, then he will show himself a second time to the priest. ⁸ When the priest has examined, and behold, if the scurf has diffused in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease. ⁹ In case the contagion of a leprous disease comes to be in a human, then the matter will be brought before the priest. ¹⁰ The priest will examine, and behold, if a white nodule is in the skin and it has turned the hair white and live flesh is staying alive in the nodule, ¹¹ it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his flesh. Then the priest will pronounce him unclean; he shall not enclose him, for he is unclean. ¹² Yet if the leprous disease should bud, yea bud in the skin so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the contagious person, from his head unto his feet, to all appearances in the eyes of the priest, ¹³ then the priest will examine, and behold, if the leprous disease covers all his flesh, he will pronounce the contagion clean; all of it has turned white; he is clean. ¹⁴ Yet on the day live flesh appears in it, he shall be unclean. ¹⁵ When the priest has examined the live flesh, he will pronounce him unclean. The live flesh, it is unclean; it is a leprous disease. ¹⁶ Or in case the live flesh reverses and is turned to white, then he will come to the priest. ¹⁷ The priest will examine him, and behold, if the contagion is turned to white, then the priest will pronounce the contagion clean; he is clean. ¹⁸ In case the flesh comes to have a boil in it, in its skin, and it is healed, ¹⁹ and there comes in place of the boil a white nodule or a reddish white blotch, then he will show himself to the priest. ²⁰ The priest will examine, and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is the contagion of leprous disease. In the boil has it budded. ²¹ Yet when the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin, and it is inconspicuous, then the priest will enclose him seven days. ²² And if it should have diffused, yea diffused in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is the contagion. ²³ Yet if, in its stead, the blotch stays and does not diffuse, it is the puckered scar of the boil. And the priest will pronounce him clean. ²⁴ Or in case the flesh comes to have a fiery scorch in its skin, and the living scorch becomes a reddish white or white blotch, ²⁵ then the priest will examine it, and behold, if the hair in the blotch has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is a leprous disease. In the scorch has it budded. The priest will pronounce him unclean; it is the contagion of leprous disease. ²⁶ Yet if the priest examines it and behold, there is no white hair in the blotch and it is not lower than the skin and it is inconspicuous then the priest will enclose him seven days. ²⁷ Then the priest will examine him on the seventh day. If it should have diffused, yea diffused in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is the contagion of leprous disease. ²⁸ Yet if, in its stead, the blotch stays and does not diffuse in the skin, and it is inconspicuous, it is a nodule of the scorch. Then the priest will pronounce him clean, for it is the puckered scar of the scorch. ²⁹ In case a man or a woman comes to have the contagion in him on the head or in the beard, ³⁰ then the priest will examine the contagion, and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin and yellow, thin hair is on it, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a scall; it is a leprous disease of the head or the beard. ³¹ Yet when the priest examines the contagion of the scall, and behold, if its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no dusky hair on it, then the priest will enclose the one with the contagion of the scall seven days. ³² Then the priest will examine the contagion on the seventh day, and behold, if the scall has not diffused, no yellow hair has come to be on it and the appearance of the scall is not deeper than the skin, ³³ then he will shave himself, yet the scall he shall not shave, and the priest will enclose the one with the scall a second seven days. ³⁴ Then the priest will examine the scall on the seventh day, and behold, if the scall has not diffused on the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean. He will rinse his garments and be clean. ³⁵ Yet if the scall should have diffused, yea diffused on the skin after his cleansing, ³⁶ then the priest will examine him, and behold, if the scall has diffused on the skin, the priest shall make no quest for yellow hair. He is unclean. ³⁷ Yet if, in his eyes, the scall stays and dusky hair has sprouted on it, the scall is healed. He is clean, and the priest will pronounce him clean. ³⁸ When a man or a woman comes to have blotches on the skin of their flesh, white blotches, ³⁹ then the priest will examine, and behold, if on the skin of their flesh the blotches are inconspicuous white, it is an eruption; it has budded on the skin. He is clean. ⁴⁰ When a man's head is burnished and he is bald; he is clean. ⁴¹ And if his head is burnished from the edge of his face and he has a bald forehead, he is clean. ⁴² Yet when there comes to be a reddish white contagion on his baldhead or on his bald forehead, it is a budding leprous disease on his baldhead or on his bald forehead. ⁴³ Then the priest will examine him, and behold, if the nodule of the contagion is reddish white on his baldhead or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of a leprous disease of the skin of the flesh, ⁴⁴ he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean, yea unclean; his contagion is on his head. ⁴⁵ As for the leprous man in whom the contagion is, his garments, they shall come to be ripped, and his head shall come to be disheveled, and he shall muffle the upper lip; and, Unclean! Unclean! shall he call. ⁴⁶ All the days in which the contagion is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean and shall dwell solitarily; his dwelling shall be outside the camp. ⁴⁷ In case a garment comes to have the contagion of a leprous mold in it, in a woollen garment or in a flaxen garment, ⁴⁸ in the spun yarn or in the woven piece of flax and of wool, in leather or in any leather work, ⁴⁹ and the contagion becomes greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather or in the spun yarn or in the woven piece or in any article of leather, it is the contagion of leprous mold, and it is to be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰ The priest will examine the contagion and enclose the contagious thing seven days. ⁵¹ Then he will examine the contagion on the seventh day. In case the contagion has diffused in the garment, in the spun yarn or in the woven piece, in leather of any workmanship which is made of leather, the contagion is a festering leprous mold; it is unclean. ⁵² He will burn the garment or the spun yarn or the woven piece, in wool or in flax or any article of leather in which the contagion comes to be, for it is a festering leprous mold. In fire shall it be burned. ⁵³ When the priest examines, and behold, the contagion has not diffused in the garment, in the spun yarn or in the woven piece or in any article of leather, ⁵⁴ then the priest will instruct them, and they will rinse that which had the contagion in it, and he will enclose it a second seven days. ⁵⁵ Then the priest will examine after the contagion has been rinsed, and behold, if the contagion has not turned its visible appearance even though the contagion has not diffused, it is unclean. With fire shall you burn it whether it is pitted in its back or in its front. ⁵⁶ When the priest examines, and behold, the contagion is inconspicuous after it has been rinsed, he will tear it from the garment or from the leather, from the spun yarn or from the woven piece. ⁵⁷ Yet if it should still appear in the garment, in the spun yarn or in the woven piece or in any article of leather, it is budding out. With fire shall you burn that which has the contagion in it. ⁵⁸ As to the garment, the spun yarn or the woven piece, or any article of leather which you are rinsing when the contagion withdraws from it, it will be rinsed a second time; then it will be clean. ⁵⁹ This is the law of the contagion of leprous mold in a woollen or flaxen garment, the spun yarn or the woven piece, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or for pronouncing it unclean."