Leviticus 13:5-6

13:5 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if,¹ as far as he can see, the infection has stayed the same² and has not spread on the skin,³ then the priest is to quarantine the person for another seven days.⁴ 13:6 The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day,⁵ and if⁶ the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean.⁷ It is a scab,⁸ so he must wash his clothes⁹ and be clean.

Leviticus 13:28

13:28 But if the bright spot stays in its place, has not spread on the skin,¹⁰ and it has faded, then it is the swelling of the burn, so the priest is to pronounce him clean,¹¹ because it is the scar of the burn.

Leviticus 13:34

13:34 The priest must then examine the scall on the seventh day, and if¹² the scall has not spread on the skin and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,¹³ then the priest is to pronounce him clean.¹⁴ So he is to wash his clothes and be clean.

Leviticus 13:51

13:51 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 made¹⁵ – the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

Leviticus 13:55

13:55 The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if¹⁶ the infection has not changed its appearance¹⁷ 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.¹⁸

¹tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

²tn Heb “the infection has stood in his eyes”; ASV “if in his eyes the plague be at a stay.”

³tn Although there is no expressed “and” at the beginning of this clause, there is in the corresponding clause of v. 6, so it should be assumed here as well.

⁴tn Heb “a second seven days.”

⁵tn That is, at the end of the second set of seven days referred to at the end of v. 5, a total of fourteen days after the first appearance before the priest.

⁶tn Heb “and behold.”

⁷tn Heb “he shall make him clean.” The verb is the Piel of טָהֵר (taher, “to be clean”). Here it is a so-called “declarative” Piel (i.e., “to declare clean”), but it also implies that the person is put into the category of being “clean” by the pronouncement itself (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 176; cf. the corresponding opposite in v. 3 above).

⁸tn On the term “scab” see the note on v. 2 above. Cf. NAB “it was merely eczema”; NRSV “only an eruption”; NLT “only a temporary rash.”

⁹tn Heb “and he shall wash his clothes.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and if under it the bright spot stands, it has not spread in the skin.”

¹¹tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher; cf. the note on v. 6 above).

¹²tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

¹³tn Heb “and its appearance is not deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”

¹⁴tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).

¹⁵tn Heb “to all which the leather was made into a handiwork.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

¹⁷tn Heb “the infection has not changed its eye.” Smr has “its/his eyes,” as in vv. 5 and 37, but here it refers to the appearance of the article of cloth or leather, unlike vv. 5 and 37 where there is a preposition attached and it refers to the eyes of the priest.

¹⁸tn The terms “back side” and “front side” are the same as those used in v. 42 for the “back or front bald area” of a man’s head. The exact meaning of these terms when applied to articles of cloth or leather is uncertain. It could refer, for example, to the inside versus the outside of a garment, or the back versus the front side of an article of cloth or leather. See J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:814, for various possibilities.