Leviticus 13:14-16

13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears in it ¹  he will be unclean, 13:15 so the priest is to examine the raw flesh ²  and pronounce him unclean ³  – it is diseased. 13:16 If, however, ⁴  the raw flesh once again turns white, ⁵  then he must come to the priest.

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¹ tn Heb “and in the day of there appears in it living flesh.” Some English versions render this as “open sores” (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT).

² tn Heb “and the priest shall see the living flesh.”

³ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’; cf. the note on v. 3 above).

⁴ tn Heb “Or if/when.”

⁵ tn Heb “the living flesh returns and is turned/changed to white.” The Hebrew verb “returns” is שׁוּב (shuv), which often functions adverbially when combined with a second verb as it is here (cf. “and is turned”) and, in such cases, is usually rendered “again” (see, e.g., GKC 386-87 §120.g). Another suggestion is that here שׁוּב means “to recede” (cf., e.g., 2 Kgs 20:9), so one could translate “the raw flesh recedes and turns white.” This would mean that the new “white” skin “has grown over” the raw flesh (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 79).