# Leviticus 13

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/leviticus/13

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2. When a man has a swelling in the skin of his body, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body a mark of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.
3. The priest shall examine the infection in the skin of the body; if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection's appearance is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous infection, and the priest shall examine him and declare him unclean.
4. If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, its appearance not deeper than the skin, and its hair not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the plague seven days.
5. The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and behold, if the plague stands still in his sight and has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up for seven more days.
6. The priest shall see him again on the seventh day, and if the infection looks dull and the infection has not spread in the skin, the priest shall purify him. It is a scab; he shall wash his garments and be clean.
7. But if the scab spreads further on the skin after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.
8. The priest shall see, and behold, the scab has spread on the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.
9. When the plague of leprosy is on a person, he shall be brought to the priest.
10. The priest shall examine him, and behold, there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and raw living flesh is in the swelling.
11. It is longstanding leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.
12. If the leprosy spreads abroad in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the plague from his head even to his feet, everywhere it appears to the priest's eyes.
13. The priest examines, and behold, the leprosy has covered all his flesh; he pronounces the plague clean—all of it has turned white: he is clean.
14. When living flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
15. The priest shall see the living flesh and make him unclean; the living flesh is unclean—it is leprosy.
16. Or if the living flesh turns back and becomes white, he shall come to the priest.
17. The priest examines him and sees the sore has become white; then the priest declares the sore clean. It is clean.
18. When flesh has a boil on its skin and it has healed,
19. If a white swelling or a reddish-white bright spot appears in the place of the boil, it shall be shown to the priest.
20. The priest sees it, and behold, its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white; the priest pronounces him unclean. It is a plague of leprosy that has broken out in the boil.
21. But if the priest examines it and sees no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin but is dull, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.
22. But if it spreads in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is a plague.
23. But if the bright spot remains in its place and has not spread, it is the inflammation of the boil, and the priest shall cleanse him.
24. Or if the flesh has a burn from fire on its skin, and the live flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white.
25. The priest shall examine it, and see: the hair in the bright spot has turned white, its appearance deeper than the skin—it is leprosy that has sprouted in the burn, so the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous plague.
26. But if the priest examines it and sees no white hair in the bright spot, and it is not lower than the skin but faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
27. The priest shall inspect him on the seventh day; if it spreads in the skin, the priest shall judge him unclean—it is a leprous plague.
28. But if the bright spot remains beneath it without spreading in the skin, though faded, it is the swelling of the burn, and the priest shall purify him, for it is the inflammation of the burn.
29. If a man or woman has a plague on the head or beard,
30. The priest shall see the sore, and indeed its appearance is deeper than the skin, with yellow thin hair in it; the priest shall declare him unclean—it is a scall, leprosy of the head or the beard.
31. And if the priest examines the plague of the scall, and behold, its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the plague of the scall seven days.
32. On the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection, and behold, if the scall has not spread, there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the scall is not deeper than the skin.
33. He shall be shaven, but shall not shave the scall, and the priest shall shut up the one with the scall for seven more days.
34. On the seventh day the priest shall inspect the scall, and behold, if the scall has not spread in the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall cleanse him; he shall wash his garments and be clean.
35. But if the scall spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
36. The priest shall examine him, and see, the scall has spread in the skin; the priest shall not inspect the yellow hair—he is unclean.
37. But if the scall stands still in his eyes, and black hair has grown in it, the scall is healed; he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38. If a man or a woman has bright spots, white bright spots, in the skin of their flesh,
39. The priest shall look, and see, if the bright spots on the skin of their flesh are dim and white, it is a freckled spot that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
40. If a man's hair falls out from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
41. But if the hair from the front of his head has fallen out, he is bald at the forehead. He is clean.
42. But if a reddish-white sore appears on the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy spreading in his bald head or his bald forehead.
43. The priest shall examine him, and behold, the sore's swelling is white and reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh.
44. He is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; his plague is on his head.
45. The leper in whom the plague is shall tear his clothes, leave his head bare, cover his upper lip, and cry, "Unclean! Unclean!"
46. All the days the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean. He shall dwell alone outside the camp—his dwelling.
47. When a garment has a leprous mark in it, whether a wool garment or a linen garment,
48. whether in the warp or the woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or anything fashioned from skin.
49. If the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any skin article, it is a leprous plague, and it shall be shown to the priest.
50. The priest shall inspect the plague and confine it seven days.
51. He examines the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, or in any work made from skin, the plague is gnawing leprosy. It is unclean.
52. He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof in wool or linen, or any leather article in which the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.
53. But if the priest sees that the plague has not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any article of skin,
54. The priest shall command them to wash whatever has the plague in it, and he shall set it apart for another seven days.
55. The priest shall examine the infection after it has been washed, and see, if the infection has not changed its color and the infection has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire—it is a spot that eats inward, whether from inside or outside.
56. But if the priest sees the plague dim after it has been washed, he shall tear it out from the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.
57. And if it appears again in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any leather article, it is spreading; you shall burn in the fire that in which the plague is.
58. The garment, or the warp, or the woof, or any skin article that you wash, if the plague has departed from them, shall be washed a second time and will be clean.
59. This is the law of the leprosy plague in a wool garment or linen, or in the warp or the woof, or in any skin article, to declare it clean or to declare it unclean.

## Nearby chapters

[Leviticus 12](https://www.lumin.faith/read/leviticus/12.md)
[Leviticus 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/leviticus/14.md)

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