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Leprosy, Varieties and Symptoms

13 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a leprous[a] disease on the skin of his body, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 13:2 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain

44 he is leprous,[a] he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; the disease is on his head.

45 The person who has the leprous[b] disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled; and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, “Unclean, unclean.” 46 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 13:44 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
  2. Leviticus 13:45 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain

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