Leviticus 13:13

13:13 the priest must then examine it,¹ and if² the disease covers his whole body, he is to pronounce the person with the infection clean.³ He has turned all white, so he is clean.⁴

Leviticus 13:21

13:21 If, however,⁵ the priest examines it, and⁶ there is no white hair in it, it is not deeper than the skin, and it has faded, then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days.⁷

Leviticus 13:26

13:26 If, however,⁸ the priest examines it and⁹ there is no white hair in the bright spot, it is not deeper than the skin,¹⁰ and it has faded, then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days.¹¹

Leviticus 13:39

13:39 the priest is to examine them,¹² and if¹³ the bright spots on the skin of their body are faded white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin. The person is clean.¹⁴

Leviticus 13:43

13:43 The priest is to examine it,¹⁵ and if¹⁶ the swelling of the infection is reddish white in the back or front bald area like the appearance of a disease on the skin of the body,¹⁷

¹tn Heb “and the priest shall see.” The pronoun “it” is unexpressed, but it should be assumed and it refers to the infection (cf. the note on v. 8 above).

²tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

³tn Heb “he shall pronounce the infection clean,” but see v. 4 above. Also, this is another use of the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher; cf. the note on v. 6 above).

⁴tn Heb “all of him has turned white, and he is clean.”

⁵tn Heb “and if.”

⁶tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

⁷tn Heb “and the priest will shut him up seven days.”

⁸tn Heb “and if.”

⁹tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “and indeed.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and low it is not ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “lower than”) the skin.” See the note on v. 20 above. Cf. TEV “not deeper than the surrounding skin.”

¹¹tn Heb “and the priest will shut him up seven days.”

¹²tn Heb “and the priest shall see.”

¹³tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

¹⁴tn Heb “he,” but the regulation applies to a man or a woman (v. 38a). In the translation “the person” is used to specify the referent more clearly.

¹⁵tn Heb “and the priest shall see it” (cf. KJV). The MT has “him/it” which some take to refer to the person as a whole (i.e., “him”; see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:770; NIV, NRSV, etc.), while others take it as a reference to the “infection” (נֶגַע, nega’) in v. 42 (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 172, 177). Smr has “her/it,” which would probably refer to “disease” (צָרַעַת, tsara’at) in v. 42. The general pattern in the chapter suggests that “it,” either the infection or the disease, is the object of the examination (see, e.g., v. 3 above and v. 50 below).

¹⁶tn Heb “and behold.”

¹⁷tn Heb “like appearance of disease of skin of flesh.”