CHAPTER 13

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²“Should a person have on the skin of his body an inflammation or a rash or a shiny spot and it become the affliction of skin blanch on the skin of his body, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. ³And the priest shall see the affliction on the skin of the body, and if the hair in the affliction has turned white and the affliction seems deeper than the skin of his body, it is skin blanch. When the priest sees it, he shall declare him unclean. ⁴And if it is a white shiny spot on the skin of his body and it does not seem deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall confine the person with the affliction seven days. ⁵And the priest shall see him on the seventh day, and, look, if the affliction has held its color, if the affliction has not spread in the skin, the priest shall confine him another seven days. ⁶And the priest shall see him again on the seventh day, and, look, if the affliction has faded, if the affliction has not spread on the skin, the priest shall declare him clean. It is a rash. And he shall launder his clothes and be clean. ⁷But if the rash in fact has spread in the skin after he has been seen by the priest and has been declared clean, he shall be seen again by the priest. ⁸And if the priest sees and, look, the rash has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is skin blanch. ⁹Should a person have the affliction of skin blanch, he shall be brought to the priest. ¹⁰And if the priest sees, and, look, there is a white inflammation in the skin in which the hair has turned white and there is exposed flesh in the inflammation, ¹¹it is chronic skin blanch in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean. He shall not confine him, for he is unclean. ¹²And if the skin blanch in fact erupts in the skin, and the skin blanch covers all the skin of the person with the affliction from head to toe, wherever the priest’s eyes can see, ¹³the priest shall see and, look, if the skin blanch has covered his whole body, he shall declare the affliction clean. It has turned white; it is clean. ¹⁴On the day exposed flesh is seen in it, he shall be unclean. ¹⁵When the priest sees the exposed flesh, he shall declare him unclean. The exposed flesh is unclean; it is skin blanch. ¹⁶Or, should the exposed flesh recede and turn white, he shall come to the priest, ¹⁷and the priest shall see him, and, look, if the affliction has turned white, the priest shall declare the person with the affliction clean. He is clean. ¹⁸And a body in which there be burning rash on the skin that is healed, ¹⁹and there be in the place of the burning rash a white inflammation or a reddish white shiny spot, ²⁰and it be seen by the priest, and the priest see, and, look, if it appears lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is the affliction of skin blanch. It has erupted in the burning rash. ²¹And if the priest sees it and, look, there is no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin and it is faded, the priest shall confine him seven days. ²²And if in fact it has spread in the skin, the priest shall confine him. It is an affliction. ²³And if the shiny spot remains in its place, does not spread, it is the scar of the burning rash, and the priest shall declare him clean. ²⁴Or, should there be a burn from fire in the skin of a body, and the exposed flesh of the burn be a reddish white or white shiny spot, ²⁵the priest shall see it and, look, if the hair has turned white in the shiny spot and seems deeper than the skin, it is skin blanch, it has erupted in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean. It is the affliction of skin blanch. ²⁶And if the priest sees him and, look, there is no white hair in the shiny spot and it is not lower than the skin and it is faded, the priest shall confine him seven days. ²⁷And when the priest sees him on the seventh day, if in fact it has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is the affliction of skin blanch. ²⁸And if the shiny spot remains in its place, does not spread in the skin, and it is faded, it is the inflammation of the burn, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the scar of the burn. ²⁹And should a man or a woman have an affliction in head or beard, ³⁰and the priest see the affliction and, look, it seems deeper than the skin and there is thin yellow hair in it, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is scurf. It is blanch disease of the head or of the beard. ³¹And should the priest see the affliction and, look, it does not seem deeper than the skin but it has no black hair, the priest shall confine the person with the affliction of scurf another seven days. ³²And the priest shall see the affliction on the seventh day and, look, if the scurf has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and the scurf seems deeper than the skin, ³³the person with the scurf shall shave himself but the scurf he shall not shave, and the priest shall confine the person with the scurf another seven days. ³⁴And the priest shall see the scurf on the seventh day and, look, if the scurf has not spread in the skin and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not seem deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean, and he shall launder his clothes and be clean. ³⁵And if the scurf has in fact spread in the skin after his being declared clean, ³⁶and the priest sees it and, look, the scurf has spread in the skin, the priest shall not examine for the yellow hair—he is unclean. ³⁷And if the scurf has held its color and black hair has grown in it, the scurf is healed, he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean. ³⁸And should a man or a woman have on the skin of their body multiple white shiny spots, ³⁹and the priest sees and, look, on the skin of their body there are multiple dull white spots, it is tetter. It has erupted in the skin. He is clean. ⁴⁰And should a man’s hair fall out, he is bald on the pate. He is clean. ⁴¹And if the front part of his hair falls out, he is bald on the forehead. He is clean. ⁴²And should there be on the bald pate or on the bald forehead a white affliction, it is erupting skin blanch on his bald pate or on his bald forehead. ⁴³And the priest shall see him and, look, the inflammation of the affliction is reddish white on his bald pate or on his bald forehead, like skin blanch of the body in appearance, ⁴⁴he is afflicted with skin blanch. He is unclean. The priest shall surely declare him unclean. His affliction is on his head. ⁴⁵And the person afflicted with skin blanch, in whom the affliction is, his clothes shall be torn and his hair disheveled, and his moustache he shall cover, and he shall call out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ ⁴⁶All the days that the affliction is on him he shall remain unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell apart. Outside the camp shall his dwelling place be.

⁴⁷“And should a garment have in it a scaly affliction, whether in a wool garment or a linen garment, ⁴⁸whether in the warp or in the woof of the linen or the wool, or in a skin or anything made of skin, ⁴⁹and the affliction be greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of skin, it is the scaly affliction, and it shall be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰And the priest shall see the affliction and sequester the article with the affliction seven days. ⁵¹And if he sees the affliction on the seventh day, that the affliction has spread through the garment or through the warp or through the woof or through the skin for anything that the skin may serve for a task, the affliction is malignant scale disease. It is unclean. ⁵²And the garment or the warp or the woof in wool or in linen or in any article of skin in which the affliction is shall be burned, for it is malignant scale disease. It shall be burned in fire. ⁵³And if the priest sees and, look, the affliction has not spread through the garment or through the warp or through the woof or through any article of skin, ⁵⁴the priest shall charge, and they shall launder that in which the affliction was and sequester it another seven days. ⁵⁵And the priest shall see after the article with the affliction has been laundered, and, look, if the affliction has not changed color and the affliction has not spread, it is unclean. In fire you shall burn it. It is corrosion, whether on its inner side or its outer side. ⁵⁶And if the priest sees, and, look, the affliction has become faded after being laundered, he shall tear it from the garment or from the skin or from the warp or from the woof. ⁵⁷And if it shall still appear in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of skin, it is eruptive. In fire you shall burn it—that in which the affliction is. ⁵⁸And the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of skin that you launder and from which the affliction disappears shall be laundered again and be clean. ⁵⁹This is the teaching about the scaly affliction of a wool or linen garment or warp or woof or any article of skin, to declare it clean or unclean.”