Leviticus 13
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Rules for diseases in the skin
13 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 ‘A person may have a kind of mark on his skin that might be a disease. He might give the disease to other people. If he has a mark like that, you must bring him to the priest. 3 The priest must look at the mark. If the hair on the mark is white, it might be a disease. If the mark is under the skin and on the skin it might be a disease. The priest must say that the person is not clean. 4 If the mark on the skin is white but not under the skin it might not be a disease. If the hair on the skin is not white, it might not be a bad disease. The priest must keep him separate from the people for seven days. 5 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the person. The mark may not be any bigger. If it is not, he must keep the person separate from the people for seven more days. 6 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the person. The mark may not be so dark and it may not be any bigger. The priest can say that the disease has left that person. The person must wash his clothes. 7 A person might see that the mark on his skin had grown. This might happen after the priest had said that the disease had left him. Then the person must go again to the priest. 8 The priest must look at the person. The mark might be bigger. The priest must say that the person has a disease. It is a disease that he could give to other people.
9 If a person has a disease on his skin, you must bring him to the priest. 10 The priest must look at the person. If the skin has a white mark and white hair on it, the person has a disease. If the mark has no skin on part of it, the person has a disease. But it may not be a disease that he could give to other people. 11 The priest must say that the person is not clean. The priest need not keep him separate from the people. He already has a disease.
12 If the disease is all over the body of the person, the priest must look at the person. 13 If the skin is all white the priest must say that the person is clean. 14 If there is an open hole in the skin, the person is not clean. 15 The priest will see the hole in the skin. He must say that the person has a disease. 16 The hole might close up and the skin might go white. If it does, the person must go to the priest. 17 The priest must look at the skin. It may be white. The priest must say that the disease has left the person. Then he will be clean.
18 A person might have a boil on his skin. Then it might get better. 19 If there is still a red or white mark on the skin, the person must go to the priest. 20 The priest must look at the person's skin. The red mark might be under the skin and the hair on the skin might be white. Then the priest must say that the person has a disease. The person is not clean. 21 If the red mark is not under the skin, it might not be a bad disease. There may not be any white hair on the red mark and the mark may be less red. If that is true, it might not be a bad disease. The priest must keep the person separate from the people for seven days. 22 If the red mark becomes bigger, the priest must say that the person has a bad disease. 23 If the red mark is not becoming bigger, the disease is getting better. It is a mark that remains on the skin from the boil. The priest must say that the person is now clean again.
24 A person who has burnt his skin might have a red or white mark. It might be where he burnt himself. 25 The priest must look at him. If the hair on the mark is white, it is a disease. If the mark is under the skin and on the skin, it is a disease. The priest must say that the person is not clean. He might give the disease to other people. 26 There may not be any white hair and the mark may not be under the skin. The disease is leaving the person. Then the priest must keep him separate from the people for seven days. 27 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the person. If the mark is getting bigger, it is a disease. The priest must say that the person is not clean. 28 If the mark is getting smaller, it is not a disease. The mark is because the person burnt himself. The priest must say that the person is clean.
29 A person may have a mark that hurts on his head. 30 The priest must look at the mark. The mark may be under the skin and on the skin, and it may have thin yellow hair on it. That is a bad disease. He could give that disease to other people. The priest must say that the person is not clean. 31 If the mark is not under the skin, it might not be a bad disease. If there is not any black hair on the mark, it might not be a disease. The priest must keep that person separate from the people for seven days. 32 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the mark that is hurting. The mark might not be under the skin. There might not be any yellow hair on it. 33 The person must cut the hair off his head. He must not cut the hair off where the mark is. Then the priest must keep the person separate from everyone else for seven more days. 34 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the mark that is hurting. The mark may be no bigger and not under the skin. The priest can say that the person is clean. The person must wash his clothes. 35 The mark might get bigger after the priest has said that the disease has left the person. 36 The priest must look at the mark. If it is bigger, he need not look for yellow hair. The person is not clean. 37 The mark may be no bigger and black hair may have grown on it. If that is true, the disease has left the person.
38 If a person has white marks on his skin, 39 the priest must look at the marks. If the colour of the marks is not bright, it is not a disease. The person is clean.
40 The hair may fall from the head of a man until he is bald. That man remains clean. 41 If the hair falls from the front of the man's head, it is bald. The man is clean. 42 If the man has a red and white mark on his bald head, it is a disease. 43 The priest must look at the red and white mark on the bald head. 44 The priest must say that the man has a disease. It is a disease that he might give to other people,
45 A person with this disease must tear his clothes. He must not comb his hair. He must cover the lower part of his face. He must shout, “I am not clean.” 46 He must be alone all the time that he has a disease. He must live outside the camp.
Rules for clothes that have mildew
47 Clothes might become bad because of mildew.[a] 48 People might have made the clothes from wool, linen or leather. 49 If the mark in the clothes is green or red, the mildew is growing. People must show these clothes to the priest. 50 The priest must look at the mildew. And he must keep the clothes separate from other clothes for seven days. 51 On the seventh day, the priest must look at the clothes. If the disease is getting bigger, the person must not wear them. 52 The priest must burn the wool, leather or linen clothes. They have a disease that will destroy them.
53 When the priest looks at the clothes, the mildew might not be getting bigger. 54 He must tell the people that they must wash the clothes. The people must keep these clothes separate from their other clothes for seven more days. 55 The priest will look at the clothes after the people have washed them. If the mildew still seems the same, the people must not wear the clothes. The people must burn the clothes whether the mark is inside or outside them. 56 The colour of the mark might be less bright, after the people have washed the clothes. If it is, the priest must tear the marked part out of the clothes. 57 If the mildew comes back to the clothes, the people must burn them. 58 If there is no mildew in the washed clothes, the people must wash the clothes again. Then the clothes will be clean.’
59 These are the rules for mildew in linen cloth. They are rules for wool or leather clothes. They tell the priest how to know whether they are clean or not clean.
Footnotes
- 13:47 When material is wet and warm, mildew can grow on it. Mildew is a very small mould. It is soft and white and destroys the material.
Levítico 13
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Leyes sobre enfermedades cutáneas
13 El Señor les dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: 2 «Cuando a una persona le salga en la piel alguna inflamación, erupción o mancha blancuzca que pueda convertirse en infección,[a] se la llevará al sacerdote Aarón, o a alguno de sus descendientes los sacerdotes. 3 El sacerdote examinará la llaga. Si el vello en la parte afectada se ha puesto blanco y la llaga se ve más hundida que la piel, entonces se trata de una enfermedad infecciosa. Después de examinar a la persona, el sacerdote la declarará impura.
4 »Si la mancha blancuzca no se ve más hundida que la piel, ni el vello se le ha puesto blanco, el sacerdote aislará a la persona enferma durante siete días, 5 y al séptimo día la examinará de nuevo. Si juzga que la infección no ha seguido extendiéndose sobre la piel, aislará a esa persona otros siete días. 6 Cumplidos los siete días, el sacerdote la examinará otra vez y, si el mal no se ha extendido sobre la piel, sino que ha disminuido, la declarará pura. No era más que una erupción, así que la persona enferma se lavará la ropa y quedará pura.
7 »Si la erupción se le sigue extendiendo sobre la piel después de haberse presentado ante el sacerdote para su purificación, la persona enferma tendrá que volver a presentarse ante él. 8 El sacerdote la examinará y, si la erupción se ha extendido sobre la piel, declarará impura a esa persona, pues se trata de una enfermedad infecciosa.
Leyes sobre enfermedades infecciosas
9 »Cuando una persona tenga una infección en la piel, deberá ser llevada ante el sacerdote, 10 quien la examinará. Si ocurre que la inflamación y el vello se han puesto blancos, y se ve la carne viva, 11 se trata de una infección crónica. El sacerdote declarará impura a tal persona. Pero no hará falta aislarla otra vez, porque ya se sabe que es impura.
12 »Si la infección se ha extendido sobre la piel de tal manera que, hasta donde el sacerdote pueda ver, cubre toda la piel de la persona enferma, 13 entonces el sacerdote la examinará. Si ve que la infección le cubre todo el cuerpo, la declarará pura. Esa persona es pura porque todo el cuerpo se le ha puesto blanco. 14 Pero será impura en el momento en que le aparezca una llaga ulcerosa. 15 Cuando el sacerdote examine la carne viva, declarará impura a esa persona. La carne viva es impura, pues se trata de una enfermedad infecciosa. 16 Pero, si la llaga ulcerosa se le pone blanca, la persona enferma deberá ir al sacerdote 17 para que la examine. Si la llaga se le ha puesto blanca, el sacerdote declarará pura a esa persona, y en efecto lo será.
Leyes sobre los abscesos
18 »Si alguien ha tenido un absceso en la piel, y luego sana, 19 pero en el sitio del absceso le aparece una inflamación blancuzca, o una mancha rojiza, deberá presentarse ante el sacerdote 20 para que lo examine. Si la inflamación se ve más hundida que la piel y el vello se le ha puesto blanco, el sacerdote lo declarará impuro. Se trata de una enfermedad infecciosa que ha brotado en el sitio donde estaba el absceso. 21 Pero si, al examinar al enfermo, encuentra el sacerdote que el vello no se le ha puesto blanco, y que el absceso no se ve más hundido que la piel, sino que ha disminuido, entonces aislará al enfermo durante siete días. 22 Si el absceso se extiende sobre la piel, declarará impuro al enfermo, pues se trata de una enfermedad. 23 Si el absceso no se desarrolla ni la mancha blanca se extiende, sino que ha cicatrizado, declarará puro al enfermo.
Leyes sobre las quemaduras
24 »Si alguien se quema, y sobre la quemadura le aparece una mancha blancuzca o rojiza, 25 el sacerdote deberá examinarla. Si el vello de la mancha se le ha puesto blanco, y la mancha misma se ve más hundida que la piel, se trata de una enfermedad infecciosa que brotó en el sitio de la quemadura. El sacerdote declarará impuro al enfermo, pues se trata de una infección.
26 »Si al examinar la quemadura encuentra el sacerdote que el vello no se ha puesto blanco ni la mancha se ve más hundida que la piel, sino que ha disminuido, entonces aislará al enfermo durante siete días. 27 Al séptimo día el sacerdote volverá a examinarlo y, si observa que la mancha se ha extendido sobre la piel, lo declarará impuro, pues se trata de una infección. 28 En cambio, si la mancha blancuzca no ha seguido extendiéndose sobre la piel, se trata solo de la inflamación de la quemadura. Entonces el sacerdote lo declarará puro, ya que se trata solo de una quemadura cicatrizada.
Leyes sobre enfermedades del cuero cabelludo y de la barba
29 »Si a un hombre o a una mujer le sale una llaga en la cabeza o en el mentón, 30 el sacerdote deberá examinar la llaga. Si esta se ve más hundida que la piel, y el pelo se ve amarillento y delgado, declarará impuro al enfermo. Se trata de tiña, que es una infección en la cabeza o en el mentón. 31 Pero, si al examinar la llaga tiñosa el sacerdote ve que no está más hundida que la piel ni tiene pelo negro, aislará al enfermo de tiña durante siete días. 32 Al séptimo día el sacerdote deberá examinar otra vez al enfermo; si la tiña no se ha extendido, ni tiene pelo amarillento ni se ve más hundida que la piel, 33 entonces el enfermo se afeitará el pelo, pero no la parte afectada, y el sacerdote lo aislará otros siete días. 34 Al séptimo día el sacerdote volverá a examinar al enfermo; si la tiña no se ha extendido por la piel ni se ve más hundida que esta, lo declarará puro. Entonces el enfermo se lavará la ropa y quedará puro.
35 »Si después de su purificación la tiña se extiende por toda la piel, 36 el sacerdote deberá examinarlo. Si la tiña se ha extendido por toda la piel, ya no hará falta que el sacerdote busque pelo amarillento, porque el enfermo es impuro. 37 En cambio, si considera que la tiña no se ha desarrollado y nota que le ha crecido pelo negro, entonces el enfermo ha sanado. Es puro, y así deberá declararlo el sacerdote.
Afecciones cutáneas benignas
38 »Si a un hombre o a una mujer le salen manchas blancuzcas en la piel, 39 el sacerdote deberá examinarlas. Si las manchas resultan ser blancuzcas, se trata solo de una erupción cutánea, de modo que la persona es pura.
Leyes sobre la calvicie
40 »Si a alguien se le cae el pelo de la nuca, y se queda calvo, es puro. 41 Si se le cae el pelo de las sienes y se queda calvo, también es puro. 42 Pero, si en su calvicie de la nuca o de las sienes le aparece una llaga rojiza, se trata de una infección que le ha brotado en la parte calva. 43 El sacerdote deberá examinarlo. Si la inflamación es rojiza, parecida a las infecciones de la piel, 44 se trata entonces de una persona infectada e impura. El sacerdote la declarará impura por esa llaga en la cabeza.
Ley sobre las infecciones
45 »La persona que contraiga una infección se vestirá de harapos y no se peinará; con el rostro semicubierto irá gritando: “¡Impuro! ¡Impuro!”, 46 y será impuro todo el tiempo que le dure la enfermedad. Es impuro, así que deberá vivir aislado y fuera del campamento.
Leyes sobre el moho
47 »Cuando la ropa de lana o de lino se llene de moho, 48 o este aparezca en la urdimbre o trama del lino o de la lana, o en algún cuero o artículo de piel, 49 y su color sea verduzco o rojizo, se trata de una infección de moho, y deberá mostrársele al sacerdote, 50 quien examinará la mancha y aislará durante siete días el objeto infectado. 51 Al séptimo día el sacerdote examinará la mancha. Si esta se ha extendido en la ropa o en la urdimbre, o en la trama, o en el cuero o en cualquier artículo de piel, se trata de un moho corrosivo. Tal objeto es impuro. 52 Se le prenderá fuego a la ropa o a la urdimbre, trama, lana, lino o cualquier artículo de piel que haya sido infectado, porque se trata de un moho corrosivo. El objeto deberá ser quemado.
53 »Si, al examinar el objeto, el sacerdote observa que la mancha no se ha extendido sobre el vestido, ni sobre la urdimbre, trama, lana, lino, o cualquier artículo de cuero, 54 entonces mandará lavar el objeto infectado y lo aislará otros siete días. 55 Una vez lavado el objeto, el sacerdote procederá a examinarlo. Si observa que la mancha no ha cambiado de aspecto, dicho objeto será considerado impuro aun cuando la mancha no se haya extendido. El objeto será quemado por estar corroído, sea por dentro o por fuera.
56 »Si después de lavado el objeto, el sacerdote lo examina y observa que la mancha ha disminuido, deberá arrancar la parte manchada del vestido, del cuero, de la urdimbre o de la trama. 57 Si la mancha reaparece en la ropa, en la urdimbre, en la trama o en cualquier artículo de piel, significa que ha vuelto a brotar. La parte infectada será quemada, 58 pero toda ropa, urdimbre, trama o artículo de piel que al lavarse pierda la mancha, se volverá a lavar, y el objeto quedará puro».
59 Esta es la ley respecto al moho que infecta la ropa, la lana, el lino, la urdimbre, la trama o cualquier artículo de piel, para poder declararlos puros o impuros.
Footnotes
- 13:2 infección. Tradicionalmente lepra; así en el resto de este capítulo y en el siguiente.
Leviticus 13
King James Version
13 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again.
8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
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