Infections in Garments, Cloth, or Leather

⁴⁷ “When a garment has a diseased infection in it,^[a] whether a wool or linen garment,^{[b] 48} or in the warp or woof^[c] of the linen or the wool, or in leather or anything made of leather,^{[d] 49} if the infection^[e] in the garment or leather or warp or woof or any article of leather is yellowish green or reddish, it is a diseased infection and it must be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰ The priest is to examine and then quarantine the article with the infection for seven days.^{[f] 51} He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather—whatever the article into which the leather was made^[g]—the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean. ⁵² He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire. ⁵³ But if the priest examines it and^[h] the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, ⁵⁴ the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the infection and quarantine it for another seven days.^{[i] 55} The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if^[j] the infection has not changed its appearance^[k] even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article.^{[l] 56} But if the priest has examined it and^[m] the infection has faded after it has been washed, he is to tear it out of^[n] the garment or the leather or the warp or the woof. ⁵⁷ Then if^[o] it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak. Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire. ⁵⁸ But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it^[p] is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Summary of Infection Regulations

⁵⁹ This is the law^[q] of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.^[r]