38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the [a]body, white bright spots, 39 then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their [b]bodies are a faint white, it is [c]eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

40 “Now if a man [d]loses the hair of his head, he is only (A)bald; he is clean. 41 And if his head becomes bald at the [e]front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean. 42 But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead. 43 Then (B)the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the [f]body, 44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

45 “As for the person who has the leprous infection, his clothes shall be torn and (C)the hair of his head shall be [g]uncovered, and he shall (D)cover his [h]mustache and call out, ‘(E)Unclean! Unclean!’ 46 He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; he shall live (F)outside the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 13:38 Lit flesh
  2. Leviticus 13:39 Lit flesh
  3. Leviticus 13:39 Lit vitiligo
  4. Leviticus 13:40 Lit becomes bald on his head
  5. Leviticus 13:41 Lit border of his face
  6. Leviticus 13:43 Lit flesh
  7. Leviticus 13:45 Or disheveled
  8. Leviticus 13:45 I.e., mouth

31 “And so you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their (A)defiling My [a]tabernacle that is among them.” 32 This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man [b]who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it, 33 and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who sleeps with an unclean woman.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 15:31 Or dwelling place
  2. Leviticus 15:32 Lit whose seminal emission goes out from him

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