Leviticus 13:48-49

13:48 or in the warp or woof 1  of the linen or the wool, or in leather or anything made of leather, 2  13:49 if the infection 3  in the garment or leather or warp or woof or any article of leather is yellowish green or reddish, it is a diseased infection and it must be shown to the priest.

Leviticus 13:51-53

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 made 4  – the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean. 13:52 He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire. 13:53 But if the priest examines it and 5  the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather,

Leviticus 13:58-59

13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it 6  is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Summary of Infection Regulations

13:59 This is the law 7  of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean. 8 

1 sn The warp (vertical) and woof (horizontal) thread may be two different sets of thread not yet woven together, or they may refer to two different kinds of thread already woven, in which case one might have the disease in it while the other does not. See the explanation in J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:809-10.

2 tn Heb “in any handiwork of skin” (cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV); most other modern English versions have “leather.”

3 tn Heb “and the infection is.” This clause is conditional in force, and is translated as such by almost all English versions.

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

5 tn Heb “And if the priest sees and behold”; NASB “and indeed.”

6 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”

7 sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תוֹרָה, torah) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of Lev 13. Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 11:46-47; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33.

8 tn These are declarative Piel forms of the verbs טָהֵר (taher) and טָמֵא (tame’) respectively (cf. the notes on vv. 3 and 6 above).