Leviticus 13:47-59
Lexham English Bible
Regulations About Contaminated Fabrics
47 “And when the garment has[a] an infectious skin disease[b] on it, on a wool garment[c] or on a linen garment,[d] 48 or on woven material or on a linen fabric, or[e] on wool or on leather or on any work of leather, 49 and if the infection is yellowish green or reddish on the garment or on the leather or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object,[f] it is an infectious skin disease[g] and it shall be shown to the priest. 50 And the priest shall examine the infection, and he shall confine the infected article for seven days. 51 And he shall examine the infection on the seventh day; if the infection has spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on the leather, for any work for which the leather is used, the infection is a destructive skin disease[h]—it is unclean. 52 And he shall burn the garment or the woven material or the fabric, whether wool or linen,[i] or any leather object that has[j] the infection, because it is an infectious skin disease,[k] which is destructive—it must be burned in the fire.
53 “But[l] if the priest examines it[m] and if[n] the infection has not spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, 54 then[o] the priest shall command, and someone[p] shall wash that on which the infection is, and he shall confine it a second time for seven days. 55 And the priest shall examine it[q] after the infection has been washed off, and if[r] the infection has not changed its outward appearance and the infection has not spread, it is unclean; he must burn it in the fire; it is a fungus on its back or on its front. 56 But[s] if the priest examines it[t] and if[u] the infection is faded after it has been washed off, then[v] he shall tear it from the garment or from the leather or from the woven material or from the fabric. 57 And if it appears again on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is spreading; you[w] must burn in the fire that which has the infection in it. 58 And the garment or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object that he might wash and the infection is removed from them then[x] shall be washed a second time, and it shall be clean.”
59 This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease[y] in[z] the wool garment or the linen or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object to declare it clean or to declare it unclean.
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- Leviticus 13:47 Literally “becomes”
- Leviticus 13:47 Perhaps better translated “mold” rather than “skin disease”
- Leviticus 13:47 Literally “a garment of wool”
- Leviticus 13:47 Literally “a garment of linen”
- Leviticus 13:48 Or “and”
- Leviticus 13:49 Literally “an object of leather”
- Leviticus 13:49 Perhaps better translated “mold” rather than “skin disease”
- Leviticus 13:51 Perhaps better translated “mold” rather than “skin disease”
- Leviticus 13:52 Literally “in/on the wool or in/on the linen”
- Leviticus 13:52 Literally “becomes on/in it”
- Leviticus 13:52 Perhaps better translated “mold” rather than “skin disease”
- Leviticus 13:53 Or “And”
- Leviticus 13:53 The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Leviticus 13:53 Literally “look” or “behold”
- Leviticus 13:54 Or “and”
- Leviticus 13:54 Literally “he”
- Leviticus 13:55 The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Leviticus 13:55 Literally “look” or “behold”
- Leviticus 13:56 Or “And”
- Leviticus 13:56 The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Leviticus 13:56 Literally “look” or “behold”
- Leviticus 13:56 Or “and”
- Leviticus 13:57 Singular
- Leviticus 13:58 Or “and”
- Leviticus 13:59 Perhaps better translated “mold” rather than “skin disease”
- Leviticus 13:59 Hebrew “of”
Leviticus 13:47-59
World English Bible
47 “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment; 48 whether it is in warp or woof;[a] of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather; 49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. 50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days. 51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean. 52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
53 “If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; 54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days. 55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. 56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof; 57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn what the plague is in with fire. 58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”
59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
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- 13:48 warp and woof are the vertical and horizontal threads in woven cloth
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